Box Score

GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Junior pitcher Eric Brown (Marriottsville, Md./Marriotts Ridge) allowed just two runs through eight-plus innings and the Gettysburg College baseball team defeated Penn State Berks 9-2 in a non-conference outing Wednesday afternoon at a sunny Kirchhoff Field.
 
Gettysburg (10-6) supported Brown with 13 hits. Every starter batted safely, with senior Luke Lawrence (West Chester, Pa./West Chester East), sophomore Chuck Probst (North Bend, Pa./Bucktail), junior Connor Tom (Reinholds, Pa./Conrad Weiser), and senior Andy Kelley (Newtown, Conn./Newtown) collecting two hits apiece.
 
Brown (3-1) scattered six hits and allowed just one walk while striking out four. He was also backed by a strong defensive effort, as the Orange and Blue did not commit an error while recording 17 ground-ball outs. Senior first baseman Henry Klimowicz (Allenhurst, N.J./Christian Brothers Academy) recorded 20 putouts to tie the school record set by Scott Vladyka '09 at Dickinson College on April 6, 2009.
 
Tom Grablewski and Keenau Erb smacked two hits apiece for the Nittany Lions (9-3).
 
The Bullets never trailed after scoring a run in the second on senior Shawn Moffitt's (Downingtown, Pa./Dowingtown East) RBI-single. Meanwhille, Brown was in command from the start, retiring the first eight batters before Erb's two-out single in the third. Erb would go on to score to make it a 1-1 game.
 
Gettysburg went ahead for good in the third on an RBI-double from Probst. The Bullets opened up some breathing room in the fourth, when a leadoff double from Kelley led to a three-run inning that put the hosts on top 5-1.
 
The Lions scratched out a run in the fifth, when Cory Fox led off with a double and eventually scored on a groundout. But that would be their final run of the day, as Brown allowed just two baserunners from the sixth through the eighth, when he faced just one over the minimum. He helped himself in the sixth when he picked a runner off first.
 
Brown left the game after yielding a leadoff single to Grablewski in the ninth, but freshman Will Wortmann (Bedford, N.Y./Fox Lane) came on to induce three straight outs.
 
The Bullets padded their lead with two runs apiece in the seventh and eighth innings.

Starting pitcher Dylen Ziegler (2-1) suffered the loss for Berks, allowing five runs on seven hits through four innings.
 
The Bullets close out their three-game homestand on Friday, when they take on Penn State Mont Alto at 3:30 p.m. in another non-conference tilt.