Box Score


GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Gettysburg exploded for nine runs over the first three innings and the Bullets completed a season sweep of Dickinson College with a 9-5 victory over the Red Devils in Centennial Conference (CC) baseball action Friday afternoon at Kirchhoff Field.
 
It was a 2-2 game when the Bullets (18-10, 4-2 CC) erupted for a seven-run third to break the game open. The big inning was highlighted by a three-run triple from senior Andrew Hourigan (Toms River, N.J./Toms River South) that made it 7-2.
 
Seniors Luke Lawrence (West Chester, Pa./West Chester East), Henry Klimowicz (Allenhurst, N.J./Christian Brothers Academy), and Steve Wright (Holland, Pa./Council Rock South) all belted two hits apiece for the Bullets while Wright and junior Will Anderson (Long Valley, N.J./West Morris Central) each stretched their hitting streaks to 13. Klimowicz drove in two runs while Wright scored twice.
 
Sophomore Brad DeMartino (Westfield, N.J./Westfield) started on the mound for the Bullets and picked up the win, throwing 5 2/3 innings and giving up three runs on nine hits and one walk while striking out five. Junior Eric Brown (Marriottsville, Md./Marriotts Ridge) came on to get the final two outs in a non-save situation.
 
Rick Hopkins went 4-for-5 with a two-run homer for Dickinson (15-13, 2-6 CC), which outhit the Bullets 15-10 but left 14 runners on base.
 
The Red Devils scored two runs on four hits in the top of the first before the Bullets answered with one in the bottom of the inning. Lawrence led off with a single and moved to third on an outfield error before scoring on a single from Klimowicz. The Bullets tied it in the second when Wright led off with a booming triple to right before scoring on a dropped fly ball.
 
DeMartino (5-2) blanked Dickinson over his next two innings and picked a runner off first to end the third.
 
Gettysburg sent 11 batters to the plate in its decisive inning. The door was opened when sophomore Logan Sneed (Newtown, Pa./Germantown Academy) reached on a one-out error before the Bullets followed up with three-straight singles, with Klimowicz and Wright each driving in a run to make it 4-2. Junior Connor Tom (Reinholds, Pa./Conrad Weiser) was then hit with a pitch to load the bases before the left-handed Hourigan lined a ball deep into the left-center cap to clear the bags with his first career triple.
 
Senior Shawn Moffitt (Downingtown, Pa./Downingtown East) followed up with an RBI-double to make it 8-2, chasing Dickinson starter Matt Cowell (2-3). Lawrence capped the scoring when he drilled a double down the leftfield line off reliever Billy O'Neill.
 
O'Neill and the Red Devil bullpen would settle in, however, and closed the game with five shutout innings. O'Neill worked 3 2/3 while allowing just two hits before Ian Brink came on to throw a pair of perfect innings.
 
DeMartino yielded one run on two hits and a hit batsman in the fourth before shutting out the Devils in the fifth. He left the game with two outs in the sixth, when junior Chase Stopyra (Ocean, N.J./Christian Brothers Academy) stranded runners on the corners when he induced a pop-up.
 
Stopyra left two more runners on base in the seventh before the visitors loaded the bases with no outs versus junior Aaron Bezio (Stafford, Va./Mountain View) in the eighth. But freshman Jonny Bray (Fairfax, Va./Robinson) quelled the threat by coaxing Dickinson's Nos. 2-4 hitters all to pop out.
 
Dickinson would not roll over, however, and Hopkins' two-run shot made it a four-run game with no outs in the ninth. Brown was summoned out of the pen after a one-out single two batters later, and he put out the fire with a pair of groundouts.
 
Gettysburg returns to the diamond on Saturday, when it visits Washington College at 12:30 p.m. for a Centennial Conference doubleheader.