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GETTYSBURG, Pa. – The Gettysburg College baseball team saw its bid for a third-straight Centennial Conference playoff berth come up just short, as the Bullets lost both ends of a Centennial Conference (CC) doubleheader to Haverford College on Senior Day and Project ALS Day Saturday at Kirchhoff Field.
 
On the final day of the Centennial Conference schedule, the Fords (13-18, 9-9 CC) won the opener 18-3, then rallied for three runs in the ninth to capture the nightcap 6-4. Haverford and Gettysburg (20-14, 9-9 CC) finished in a three-way tie for the fourth and final conference playoff spot, but Haverford won the tiebreaker on head-to-head competition between the three teams.
 
The Bullets' four seniors were honored in a brief ceremony before the game, and between games a "Project ALS Day" ceremony was held as the baseball team's "Take ALS Yard" efforts were recognized.
 
In an exciting second game that saw the lead change hands three times in the last three innings, sophomore Eric Brown (Marriottsville, Md./Marriottsville) started and limited the Fords to one run on six hits through six innings. Facing Tommy Bergjans, the two-time Centennial Conference Pitcher of the Year who was throwing on three-days rest, the Bullets pushed across two runs in the fourth. Junior Steve Wright (Holland, Pa./Council Rock South) led off with an infield single and scored on an error before junior Henry Klimowicz (Allenhurst, N.J./Christian Brothers Academy) drove home a second run with a single.
 
Brown, meanwhile, blanked Haverford through the first five innings, retiring eight of nine at one point, before the Fords got on the scoreboard in the sixth. Sophomore Aaron Bezio (Stafford, Va./Mountain View) came on in relief in the seventh, but after the Fords reached base on four straight at-bats to tie the game, classmate Jonathan Lucido (Woodstock, Md./St. Paul's) was summoned out of the bullpen with a 2-0 count. He induced a fielder's choice that put Haverford in front 3-2, but he went on to retire the final two batters of the inning.
 
The Bullets answered with a pair of unearned runs in the bottom of the frame to go back on top 4-3. Senior Mike Kielbasa (Ludlow, Mass./Loomis Chaffee) got things started with ringing double to left, and went on to score when the shortstop threw the ball away at third on a ground ball. Klimowicz, who reached on the fielder's choice, eventually came around to score on another throwing error to put the Bullets in front.
 
Lucido rolled up a 4-6-3 inning-ending double play to get out of the eighth before Bergjans uncorked a strike-three wild pitch to put the leadoff batter on base in the bottom half. However, he went on to retire the side.
 
Gettysburg carried a one-run lead into the ninth, but Haverford tied it on a walk and a pair of singles before the Bullets committed two infield throwing errors on the same play, allowing two runs to score and making it 6-4. After yielding a leadoff single in the bottom of the inning, Bergjans fanned the side to end the game.
 
Kielbasa and Klimowicz each finished 2-for-4 for the Bullets. Lucido (0-1) allowed just two hits and one earned run over three innings but was charged with the loss.
 
Bergjans (5-2) finished with a seven-hit complete game. Just one of his runs was earned, and he struck out nine.
 
Haverford took advantage of eight Gettysburg errors in the opener and scored 17 of its runs over the first six innings. Freshman Brad DeMartino (Westfield, N.J./Westfield) started for the Bullets on the mound and took the loss after throwing three innings. Senior Scott Zanghellini (Randolph, N.J./Randolph) finished 2-for-3 at the plate for the Bullets while Mike Schmandt was 4-for-5 for Haverford. Justin Herring (2-0) carried a two-hit shutout into the eighth before Gettysburg scored three runs on four hits.
 
The Bullets close out their season on Monday, when they host Susquehanna University in a non-conference game starting at 4 p.m.