Box Score

SAINT MARY'S CITY, Md. – The Gettysburg College baseball team dropped a 4-1 decision at St. Mary's (Md.) College in its season opener on Sunday in a non-conference tilt.
 
In a game played through frigid conditions with temperatures in the 30s, it was a pitcher's duel through the opening six innings. St. Mary's starter Zach Thompson and Gettysburg senior Eric Brown (Marriottsville, Md./Marriotts Ridge) allowed just one run apiece through the first six innings before the Seahawks (5-4) broke through with a three-run seventh.
 
The Bullets threatened in the top of the ninth, loading the bases with one out. But Graham Haliskoe came out to get the final two outs and pick up the save for St. Mary's, which was playing its ninth game of the year.
 
Thompson (3-0) struck out 11 and scattered seven hits over 8 1/3 innings for the Seahawks, who were carried offensively by the top of the lineup. The team's top-five hitters accounted for all of their runs and each of their seven hits.
 
Brown pitched seven innings, yielding four runs (three earned) on seven hits. He struck out five and did not issue a walk.
 
Junior Chuck Probst (North Bend, Pa./Bucktail) and senior Connor Tom (Reinholds, Pa./Conrad Weiser) collected two hits apiece for Gettysburg.
 
The Seahawks never trailed after plating a run on back-to-back doubles in the bottom of the first. But Brown settled in over the next five innings, allowing only a pair of singles while facing the minimum 15 batters.
 
Gettysburg threatened early, putting the first two runners on base in both the first and third. However, Thompson would escape in both innings and used a double play to work out of trouble in the third.
 
The Bullets scored their lone run in the sixth, when Probst reached on an error leading off. He moved up two bags when he stole second and advanced on an error before scoring on a single from Tom, making it a 1-1 game.
 
Senior J.J. Lucido (Woodstock, Md./St. Paul's) moved into scoring position later in the inning when he reached on an error and stole second, but Thompson would escape with a strikeout. He went on to blank the Bullets in the seventh and eighth with a pair of perfect innings.
 
In the bottom of the seventh, the Seahawks loaded the bases with one out before scoring the go-ahead run on a hit batsman. Two more runs would score on a single as the Seahawks opened up their three-run lead.
 
Sophomore Will Wortmann (Bedford, N.Y./Fox Lane) pitched the eighth for the Bullets, retiring the Seahawks in order.
 
Senior Will Anderson (Long Valley, N.J./West Morris Central) led off the top of the ninth with a single before sophomore Brendan Wright (Bayville, N.Y./Locust Valley) drew a one-out walk. Junior Jack Seibert (Yardley, Pa./Holy Ghost Prep) would single to load the bases before Haliskoe shut the door for St. Mary's.
 
Gettysburg continues its season on Tuesday, when it visits Hood College at 3 p.m. in another non-conference tilt.