Box Score

BALTIMORE – The Gettysburg College baseball team played 15th-ranked Johns Hopkins to a 1-1 game over seven innings of play, but the Blue Jays broke through with a five-run eighth inning and handed the Bullets a 6-3 Centennial Conference (CC) setback on Wednesday.
 
Gettysburg (17-9-2, 5-2 CC) rallied for two runs in the ninth and had the go-ahead run at the plate, but reliever Harrison Folk recorded the final two outs for Hopkins (21-6, 6-1 CC).
 
Freshman Jack Havard (New Canaan, Conn./New Canaan) registered a strong performance on the mound for Gettysburg, allowing just one run over 5 2/3 innings while coming away with a no-decision. Junior Logan Sneed (Newtown, Pa./Germantown Academy) accounted for two of his team's four hits to lead the Bullets at the plate.
 
Daniel Albert provided the big blow for Hopkins with a go-ahead three-run homer in the decisive eighth inning.
 
The two sides entered the day in a three-way tie with Ursinus for first place in the Centennial Conference standings, but the Blue Jays now find themselves in sole possession of first, as Ursinus lost to Franklin & Marshall on Wednesday.
 
Junior Chuck Probst (North Bend, Pa./Bucktail) led off the game with an infield single versus starter Nick Bodner to push his hitting streak to 31 games – the third-longest in Centennial Conference history. Sneed followed up with a single of his own, and a groundout by senior Connor Tom (Reinholds, Pa./Conrad Weiser) would score Probst, giving the Bullets a 1-0 lead.
 
In the meantime, Havard was outstanding in his first collegiate start, tossing five innings of two-hit ball over the first five innings. He worked out of a jam in the first, coaxing a pair of pop-outs after the Blue Jays loaded the bases with one out.
 
Havard would allow just a pair of singles over the next four innings, and he retired 13 of 15 batters from the first through the fifth. But he ran into trouble in the sixth, when No. 2 hitter Brian Lin led off with a double. Mike Smith followed up with a single to put runners on the corners before Havard induced his second double play of the game, which allowed Lin to score as the Blue Jays pulled even at 1-1.
 
After Havard issued a walk, he was relieved by sophomore Will Wortmann (Bedford, N.Y./Fox Lane), who came on to get the final out of the inning.
 
Bodner also pitched well in the middle innings for Hopkins and retired 12 in a row from the first through the fourth. Gettysburg threatened in the sixth, when with one out Probst was hit by a pitch before Sneed singled. However, Bodner escaped with a pop-out and a strikeout.
 
Wortmann pitched a scoreless seventh and retired Lin to start the eighth before a hit batsman opened the door for the Blue Jays' big inning. Ryan Orgielewicz then reached on a fielder's choice and stole second, and with first base open the Bullets intentionally walked No. 5 hitter Alex Darwiche. Senior Aaron Bezio (Stafford, Va./Mountain View) was then summoned out of the bullpen and was greeted by Albert's three-run shot, making it 4-1. Hopkins tacked on two more runs on three straight doubles.
 
Reliever Cameron Mineo ran into control problems in the top of the ninth, however, hitting Sneed and senior Will Anderson (Long Valley, N.J./West Morris Central) to start the inning. Two batters later, senior J.J. Lucido (Woodstock, Md./St. Paul's) drew a walk to load the bases, prompting another pitching change. However, John Donohue walked freshman Joe Giovinco (Stirling, N.J./Seton Hall Prep) to bring home a run before Folk entered the game. Freshman Dominick Gasparro (Clarksburg, N.J./Princeton Day School) lifted a sacrifice fly to make it a three-run game, but Folk nailed down the save with a strikeout.
 
Mineo (4-0) was credited with the win after allowing two runs over 1 2/3 innings of relief for the Blue Jays after Bodner yielded just one run over 6 2/3 innings in a no-decision.
 
Wortmann (1-1) was charged with the loss for the Bullets, yielding two runs over two innings.
 
Gettysburg and Johns Hopkins conclude their season series on Friday at Gettysburg starting at 3:30 p.m.