Box Score

GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Gettysburg rallied late but came up on the short end of a 12-9 decision to McDaniel College in Centennial Conference (CC) baseball action Tuesday afternoon a sunny, windy Kirchhoff Field.
 
The Bullets (20-11, 9-6 CC) outhit the Green Terror 17-12 but left 11 runners on base. McDaniel (15-12, 8-7 CC) took advantage of four Gettysburg errors by scoring 10 unearned runs.
 
Senior Mike Kielbasa (Ludlow, Mass./Loomis Chaffee School) finished 4-for-5 with two doubles and two runs and while setting a career-high for hits to lead Gettysburg, which remains tied with Washington College for third place in the Centennial Conference standings.
 
All nine Bullet starters hit safely, as junior Shawn Moffitt (Downingtown, Pa./Downingtown East), sophomore Will Anderson (Long Valley, N.J./West Morris Central), junior Henry Klimowicz (Allenhurst, N.J./Christian Brothers Academy), senior Cory Karagjozi (Robbinsville, N.J./Robbinsville), and sophomore John Convery (Media, Pa./Penncrest) all contributed with two hits apiece. Sophomore Connor Tom (Reinholds, Pa./Conrad Weiser) singled to stretch his hitting streak to 15.
 
Ben Van Put (5-3) threw 6 2/3 innings and earned the win for McDaniel (15-12, 8-7) which broke the game open with eight runs over the fourth and fifth innings, while Nick Valori capped the fourth with a three-run homer that gave the visitors the lead for good while. The Green Terror, which has won six straight games, now trails Gettysburg and Washington by a game for the final conference playoff spot.
 
Gettysburg trailed 12-5 after six-and-half innings but scored twice in the seventh and twice in the ninth, when it had the bases loaded with one out trailing 12-8. But reliever David Pisauro held on, getting a sacrifice fly and a groundout to end the game.
 
McDaniel scored an unearned run off Gettysburg starter Chase Stopyra (Ocean, N.J./Christian Brothers Academy) in the second before the Bullets answered with one in the bottom of the inning to tie it at 1-1. Kielbasa ripped a one-out double before scoring on a single from senior Scott Zanghellini (Randolph, N.J./Randolph).
 
McDaniel came back with two more unearned runs in the third, when freshman Andrew Jacobson (Wilton, Conn./Wilton) came on to get the final out of the inning on a called third strike. But the Bullets went in front 4-3 after a three-run third, which was highlighted by a two-run double down the rightfield line by Moffitt and was capped by an RBI-single from Klimowicz.
 
However, that's when the Green Terror ran off eight straight runs in two innings, scoring four in both the fourth and the fifth to assume their 12-5 lead. All but one of the runs over the stretch were unearned.
 
The Bullets chased Van Put in the with a two-run, two-hit seventh, when Pisauro came on with a runner on third and struck out the final batter of the inning. But he ran into trouble in the ninth, when Gettysburg started the inning with three straight hits, including an RBI-single from Karagjozi. Convery walked to load the bases before Tom lifted a sacrifice fly into right to make it a three-run game with runners on first and second. But Pisauro induced a 6-4 putout to end it.
 
Sophomore Jonathan Lucido (Woodstock, Md./St. Paul's), one of five Gettysburg pitchers to enter the game, blanked the Terror over the eighth and the ninth, allowing just a walk while striking out two.
 
The same two teams meet again on Friday at 3:30 p.m. at McDaniel.