Box Score

READING, Pa. – The Gettysburg College baseball team saw its five-game winning streak come to an end with a 3-2 non-conference loss at Penn State-Berks Friday afternoon.
 
The Bullets (11-5), who entered the game leading the Centennial Conference in ERA (2.91), allowed just five hits but made a season-high four errors, leading to a pair of unearned runs.
 
Junior Steve Wright (Holland, Pa./Council Rock South) went 3-for-4 to lead Gettysburg at the plate while senior Cory Karagjozi (Robbinsville, N.J./Robbinsville) added a pair of hits.
 
Sophomore Chase Stopyra (Ocean, N.J./Christian Brothers Academy) started on the mound for the Bullets and worked 4 2/3 innings, yielding three runs (one earned) on five hits and one walk while striking out three. Classmate Rich Power (Toms River, N.J./Monsignor Donovan) was impressive once again out of the bullpen, allowing only a walk over the final 3 1/3 innings. He also threw four innings of scoreless relief to earn the save in Monday's 5-0 victory at Penn State-Mont Alto.
 
Kyle Hartman (2-0) pitched six innings to earn the win for Berks, scattering eight hits and yielding just two unearned runs. Steve Koenig shut out the Bullets over the last three innings to pick up the save.
 
The Lions pushed across two unearned runs on one hit, one walk and two errors to assume a 2-0 lead in the third. Gettysburg got on the scoreboard with an unearned run of its own in the fourth, when Wright led off with a single and moved to second on an outfield error before eventually scoring on a fielder's choice, making it 2-1.
 
Berks added a big run on a pair of singles in the fifth. Power was summoned out of the pen with runners on first and second and two out, and he set down the Lions' No. 5 hitter looking to end the inning.
 
The Bullets scored their final run in the sixth, when sophomore Will Anderson (Long Valley, N.J./West Morris Central) singled leading off before junior Shawn Moffitt (Downingtown, Pa./Downingtown East) drove him in with a one-out single three batters later. However, Hartman escaped further damage by inducing a 5-4-3 inning-ending double play.
 
Gettysburg put the tying run on second in the seventh when sophomore Connor Tom (Reinholds, Pa./Conrad Weiser) reached on an error and Wright singled. But Berks again escaped with a double play, this time on a 4-6-3 twin killing, and Koenig would go on to retire the final six batters.
 
Power was just as effective for the Bullets out of the pen. He worked a three-up, three-down sixth, and after issuing a leadoff walk in the seventh, he was perfect in the seventh and eighth.
 
Gettysburg returns to action on Tuesday, when it visits Franklin & Marshall College at 3:30 p.m. in its Centennial Conference opener. The game will be played at Clipper Magazine Stadium in Lancaster.