Box Score

GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Two days after the Gettysburg College baseball team earned a 17-6 victory at McDaniel College, the Green Terror turned the tables on the Bullets, posting a 15-1 Centennial Conference (CC) win at Kirchhoff Field Friday afternoon.  

Playing their final regular-season home game of the year, the Bullets (24-13-1, 10-5-1 CC) slipped into third place in the conference standings, a half-game behind Haverford College for second place.
 
Gettysburg concludes the regular season on Saturday and can clinch a CC playoff berth with one victory in its doubleheader at Haverford. A single loss by McDaniel (versus Ursinus College) or Washington College (versus Dickinson College) on Saturday would also secure a playoff bid for the Bullets.

Prior to the game, a ceremony was held to unveil a plaque on the side of the home dugout in memory of Ray Reider '53, a former student-athlete, coach, and professor at Gettysburg and a lifelong supporter of Bullets athletics who passed away this past January.

Zach Kronick (8-1) allowed just four hits and struck out six over eight innings for McDaniel (28-8, 9-7 CC), which used a six-run fourth inning to break the game open. Kevin Reitz finished 4-for-5 at the plate for the Green Terror, who outhit the Bullets 17-5.
 
Junior Eric Brown (Marriottsville, Md./Marriotts Ridge) started on the mound for Gettysburg and was charged with the loss. Brown (4-3) worked three-plus innings, yielding five runs (four earned) on six hits and four walks. Four additional pitchers toed the rubber for the Bullets, including freshman Matt Ainsworth (Rockville, Md./Thomas S. Wootton), who allowed just three runs (two earned) over 3 2/3 innings. In addition, freshman Sam Dobbins (West Hartford, Conn./Hall) tossed a scoreless ninth.
  McDaniel jumped in front with a three-run, three-hit first before the Bullets answered with their lone run of the game in the bottom of the inning. Sophomore Chuck Probst (North Bend, Pa./Bucktail) led off with a ringing double down the leftfield line before scoring when junior Will Anderson (Long Valley, N.J./West Morris Central) beat out a double-play ball. However, Kronick would not allow a runner past first throughout the rest of his outing.
 
The Green Terror tacked on a run in the second to make it 4-1 before their big fourth inning, when they sent 10 batters to the plate. The visitors padded their lead with three runs in the sixth and two more in the eighth.
 
Gettysburg and Haverford begin their doubleheader at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday.