Box Score

GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Junior Eric Brown (Marriottsville, Md./Marriotts Ridge) spun a six-hit complete game and Gettysburg earned a convincing 12-1 Centennial Conference (CC) baseball victory over Franklin & Marshall College at a sunny and cold Kirchhoff Field Tuesday afternoon.
 
The Bullets (16-9, 2-1 CC) broke open a close game in the middle innings, scoring seven runs over the fifth and sixth to open up a 10-1 advantage.
 
Gettysburg outhit F&M 15-6, with all but one starter batting safely. Six Bullets finished with multiple hits, including senior Steve Wright (Holland, Pa./Council Rock South), who went 2-for-3 with two runs and three RBIs; sophomore Logan Sneed (Newtown, Pa./Germantown Academy), who was 2-for-4 with three runs scored; and senior Henry Klimowicz (Allenhurst, N.J./Christian Brothers Academy), who went 2-for-5 with two runs and two RBIs.
 
Wright extended his hitting streak to 10, as did junior Will Anderson (Long Valley, N.J./West Morris Central) who was 2-for-5. Senior Andy Kelley (Newtown, Conn./Newtown) went 2-for-4 with a double while classmate Shawn Moffitt (Downingtown, Pa./Downingtown East) was 2-for-5.
 
Brown (4-2) tossed his second-straight complete game and his third of the season. He turned in an incredibly efficient outing, throwing only 90 pitches, walking just one, and striking out one. Brown was backed by a strong defensive effort, as the Bullets did not commit an error for the third game in a row.
 
Tyler Daley finished with 2-for-3 with a double to lead the Diplomats (10-12, 1-2 CC) while Mack Glavin (1-2) was charged with the loss, yielding eight runs (four earned) on nine hits and three walks over five-plus innings.
 
The Bullets spotted Brown a 1-0 lead in the first, when Sneed drew a one-out walk before eventually scoring on a groundout by Klimowicz. Glavin went on to blank the Bullets in the second and third before the Orange and Blue started to break through in the fourth, when Moffitt delivered a big two-out, two-run single up the middle to make it 3-0.
 
Brown was masterful early on, retiring 12 of the first 14 batters he faced. Keeping the ball down, all but two of his outs during the stretch were groundouts, and all but one of his final 15 outs came on the ground.
 
F&M scratched out its lone run in the fifth, when the Diplomats threatened with back-to-back singles to start the inning. But Brown induced a pair of groundouts, with the first scoring a run, before freezing the leadoff hitter with a curveball for a called strike three.
 
Gettysburg went up 7-1 after a four-run, four-hit fifth that was aided by an F&M error. Kelley laced an RBI-double down the leftfield line to make it 4-1 before Wright drilled a two-run single into the right-center gap. Junior John Convery (Media, Pa./Penncrest) would draw a bases-loaded walk to cap the scoring for the inning, when the Bullets sent 10 batters to the plate.
 
The Bullets chased Glavin in the sixth after Sneed led off with a single. Gettysburg would go on to score three more runs off two other pitchers as the lead swelled to 10-1. Klimowicz and Wright each had an RBI-single in the inning.
 
Gettysburg set the final score with a two-run eighth, when Klimowicz and Kelley led off with consecutive singles before coming around to score on three wild pitches.
 
The Bullets and Diplomats conclude their season series on Friday, when they play another single nine-inning game at 3:30 p.m. at Clipper Magazine Stadium in Lancaster.