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GETTYSBURG, Pa. – The Gettysburg College baseball team won both ends of a Centennial Conference (CC) makeup doubleheader versus Swarthmore College on Sunday at Kirchhoff Field, polishing off a productive weekend.
 
The Bullets (21-11, 7-3 CC) played five games over three days and finished 4-1 over the stretch after beating Dickinson College on Friday and splitting a doubleheader at Washington College on Saturday. Gettysburg is now tied with Haverford College for second place in the conference standings and trails first-place Johns Hopkins University by just one game.
 
Juniors Rich Power (Toms River, N.J./Monsignor Donovan) and Chase Stopyra (Ocean, N.J./Christian Brothers Academy) each turned in a quality start on the mound for the Bullets, who have now surpassed their win total from last season. Power (6-2) earned the victory in the opener, allowing just two earned runs and scattering 12 hits over eight innings, before Stopyra (2-1) worked a career-long 6 1/3 innings in the nightcap, holding the Garnet to three runs on eight hits.
 
Gettysburg's Nos. 1-2 hitters in the lineup had a big date at the plate, as senior leadoff hitter Luke Lawrence (West Chester, Pa./West Chester East) went 4-for-7 with four runs scored while sophomore Logan Sneed (Newtown, Pa./Germantown Academy) was 5-for-10 with five runs. Senior Steve Wright (Holland, Pa./Council Rock South) hit safely in both games to push his hitting streak to 17 games.
 
Freshmen Jonny Bray (Fairfax, Va./Robinson) and Matt Ainsworth (Rockville, Md./Thomas S. Wootton) each put out a late rally to pick up a save.
 
Swarthmore (18-14, 2-8 CC) outhit the Bullets 14-9 in the opener but were hurt by six errors which led to seven unearned runs. The Garnet also left 10 runners on base.
 
The Bullets twice erased a two-run deficit, which was a pitcher's duel early on between Power and Brian Gibbs. Swarthmore scored once in the first, and it was still a 1-0 game heading into the fourth.
 
The Garnet scored again in the fourth before the Bullets tied it with two runs in the bottom of the inning. The visitors went back in front with a two-run fifth, only to see the Bullets take the lead for good with a four-run fifth versus Gibbs (3-3). Wright provided the big blow with a two-out, two-strike single up the middle that scored two runs, giving his team a 6-4 lead.
 
Gettysburg tacked on three more runs over the seventh and eight versus reliever Jackson Ramey, but the Garnet put up a rally in the ninth. Swarthmore scored once versus junior reliever Aaron Bezio (Stafford, Va./Mountain View) before Bray was summoned out of the bullpen with runners on the corners. After yielding an RBI-single, Bray retired Swarthmore's Nos. 4-5 hitters to earn his second save of the year.
 
Senior Shawn Moffitt (Downingtown, Pa./Downingtown East) went 2-for-4 with a pair of doubles in the opener while Sneed finished 2-for-5 with three runs. Wright went 2-for-4 with three RBIs.
 
Swarthmore also struck first in the nightcap, scratching out a run on three singles in the first. However, Stopyra would settle in to retire the next 11 batters he faced. In the meantime, the Bullets, who outhit Swarthmore 15-10 in the nightcap, put up four runs in the third inning, which was aided by a pair of Garnet errors.
 
Stopyra's streak ended in the fourth, when Swarthmore scored twice on two hits and error to make it 4-3. However, the Bullets got a run back in the bottom of the frame, when senior Andrew Hourigan (Toms River, N.J./Toms River South) led off with a triple before scoring on a two-out single from Lawrence to make it 5-3.
 
The Garnet threatened in the seventh, loading the bases with one out. But Ainsworth needed just two pitches to get the Bullets off the field. He coaxed cleanup hitter Roy Walker to chase his first pitch, which resulted in a comebacker to the mound in which Ainsworth went home for the 1-2 force out, and his next offering went for an inning-ending groundout to third.
 
After the Bullets added a run in the bottom of the inning, Ainsworth was just as efficient in the eighth, needing just four pitches to get three outs.
 
Gettysburg opened up some breathing room with a three-run, three-hit eighth that was capped by an RBI-triple from junior Will Anderson (Long Valley, N.J./West Morris Central). Swarthmore pushed across a final run in the ninth, when Ainsworth stranded runners on second and third to end the game.
 
Lawrence went 3-for-4 with three runs and two RBIs in the nightcap while Sneed was 3-for-5 with 2 runs and two RBIs. Anderson and Klimowicz also roped two hits apiece. Ainsworth allowed just one run on two hits and a walk over 2 2/3 innings while earning his first career save.
 
Gettysburg returns to Kirchhoff Field on Tuesday, when it hosts Johns Hopkins in a single nine-inning game starting at 3:30 p.m.