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FORT MYERS, Fla. – The Gettysburg College baseball team wrapped up its Spring Break trip to Florida on a high note on Saturday, topping Merchant Marine 4-2 in nine innings to come away with a doubleheader split.
 
Senior Luke Lawrence (West Chester, Pa./West Chester East) finished 5-for-8 on the day for Gettysburg (7-4), which lost the opener 6-2. Junior Will Anderson (Long Valley, N.J./West Morris Central) went 4-for-9 with four RBIs, and he also slugged two home runs in the nightcap to tie a school record. He tied the game with a solo shot in the sixth before giving the Bullets a three-run lead with a two-run blast in the ninth. He became the first Bullet to homer twice since Mike Backus '10 in a 9-5 loss at Johns Hopkins University in 2010.
 
Junior Aaron Bezio (Stafford, Va./Mountain View) earned the win on the mound in the nightcap for Gettysburg, throwing eight innings and tying a career-high with nine strikeouts, before freshman Will Wortmann (Bedford, N.Y./Fox Lane) recorded the final three outs to pick up his first collegiate save.
 
Gettysburg fell behind 6-1 after two and a half innings in the opener after the Mariners plated two runs in the first and four in the third versus sophomore starter Brad DeMartino (Westfield, N.J./Westfield). The Bullets committed three errors in the third, which made all four runs in the inning unearned.
 
Offensively, the Bullets outhit Merchant Marine 13-8 but left 10 runners on base for the game. Lawrence finished 3-for-4 while sophomore Logan Sneed (Newtown, Pa./Germantown Academy), Anderson, senior Henry Klimowicz (Allenhurst, N.J./Christian Brothers Academy), and senior Steve Wright (Holland, Pa./Council Rock South) all posted two hits apiece.
 
DeMartino (1-1) worked six innings and allowed six runs (two earned) on eight hits and one walk while striking out seven. Junior Chase Stopyra (Ocean, N.J./Christian Brothers Academy) came on to throw a scoreless seventh.
 
Pat Morgan (1-0) threw a complete game for Merchant Marine (2-6).
 
The second game was a pitcher's duel early on between Bezio (2-0) and Andrew Spinnenweber, who combined to allow just two runs. Bezio opened with three scoreless innings before the Mariners pushed across one run on a single and a triple in the bottom of the fourth, taking a 1-0 lead.
 
The Bullets pulled even in the sixth, when Anderson led off with a solo home run to left-center. Then in the ninth, Wright reached on an error leading off, was bunted to second by Lawrence, and moved to third on a single from Sneed. Junior Connor Tom (Reinholds, Pa./Conrad Weiser) then doubled home Wright before Anderson followed up with a long ball down the leftfield line to make it 4-1.
 
In the meantime, Bezio allowed just four baserunners from the fifth through the eighth. In the ninth, Merchant Marine led off with a double, and an error moved the runner to third. Head coach John Campo then summoned Wortmann out of the bullpen, and the first-year promptly set the Mariners down in order, striking out a pair of batters sandwiched around an RBI-groundout.
 
Lawrence, Sneed, Tom, Anderson, and senior Andy Kelley (Newtown, Conn./Newtown) all roped two hits in the nightcap.
 
Spinnenweber allowed six hits and struck out nine over six innings for the Mariners before Jeff Suciu tossed a pair of scoreless innings. Brad Suciu (0-2) yielded all three runs in the ninth and suffered the loss.
 
Gettysburg plays its home opener on Wednesday, when it takes on Juniata College at 3:30 p.m. in a non-conference outing.