Box Score 1 | Box Score 2

FORT MYERS, Fla. – The Gettysburg College baseball team was dealt a pair of losses on the final day of its Spring Break trip to Florida on Saturday.
 
The Bullets lost 11-1 to Thiel College, then dropped a 5-3 decision to Wisconsin Lutheran College in 10 innings.
 
Gettysburg closes out its season-opening trip with a 6-4 record.
 
Thiel (7-1) led just 1-0 at the end of three innings before putting up 10 runs from the fourth through the seventh. Sophomore starter Aaron Bezio (Stafford, Va./Mountain View) retired seven of the first eight batters before the Tomcats pushed across a run on three singles and an error in the third. Thiel followed up with a three-run, four-hit fourth to make it 4-0, then made it 8-0 with a four-run sixth, which was capped by a three-run homer from No. 2 hitter Bryan Mitchell.
 
The Tomcats went deep again in the seventh, when No. 8 hitter Josh Doody belted a two-run shot to complete a three-run inning. A pair of Gettysburg errors resulted in two unearned runs.
 
The Bullets broke up the shutout in the ninth, when junior Steve Wright (Holland, Pa./Council Rock South) led off with a single before scoring on a wild pitch.
 
Bezio (0-1) was charged with the loss, allowing seven runs on 12 hits while striking out six. Jaden Nozicka (1-1) threw seven shutout innings and allowed just four hits for Thiel.
 
Senior Mike Kielbasa (Ludlow, Mass./Loomis Chaffee) went 2-for-4 at the plate for Gettysburg.
 
In the second match-up in three days between Gettysburg and Wisconsin Lutheran (7-2), the Warriors jumped out to a 3-0 lead with a four-hit first against freshman starter Brad DeMartino (Westfield, N.J./Westfield). However, the left-hander settled in and was nearly flawless over the next eight innings before working into the 10th. He allowed just three baserunners while blanking WLC from the second through the ninth, and at one point he retired 18 in a row spanning the second through the eighth innings.
 
The Bullets made it 3-1 in the bottom of the second when sophomore Will Anderson (Long Valley, N.J./West Morris Central) led off with a single before coming around to score on a wild pitch. Then in the fourth, the Bullets pulled even at 3-3 after junior Henry Klimowicz (Allenhurst, N.J./Christian Brothers Academy) led off with a single before classmate Shawn Moffitt (Downingtown, Pa./Downingtown East) was hit with a pitch. Klimowicz would score on an RBI-groundout from junior Andrew Hourigan (Toms River, N.J./Toms River South) and Moffitt was chased home on a sacrifice fly from freshman Logan Sneed (Newtown, Pa./Germantown Academy).
 
DeMartino continued to roll in the ninth, fanning the side while shaking off a two-out error. But the Warriors finally broke through in the 10th, when No. 9 hitter Korben Biersack led off with a single. After a groundout and another single, Biersack would end up scoring on an infield error. Sophomore Eric Brown (Marriottsville, Md./Marriotts Ridge) would come in relief and yielded an infield single that pushed home another run before getting the final out.
 
Kielbasa roped a one-out single against reliever Joey Hodkiewicz in the bottom of the inning, but Hodkiewicz induced a pair of groundouts to end the game.
 
DeMartino (1-1) finished with 10 strikeouts and no walks over 9 2/3 innings. He yielded five runs (four earned) on nine hits.
 
Senior Scott Zanghellini (Randolph, N.J./Randolph) finished 3-for-4 for the Bullets while Kielbasa and Moffitt each collected a pair of hits.
 
Gettysburg returns to action on Tuesday, when it visits Penn State-Harrisburg at 3:30 p.m. in a single nine-inning game.