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GETTYSBURG, Pa. – The Bullets nearly rallied for a dramatic victory in the nightcap, but Haverford used a late comeback of its own to sweep a Centennial Conference (CC) doubleheader from the Gettysburg College baseball team on Saturday at Kirchhoff Field in the regular-season finale for both teams on Senior Day and Take ALS Yard Day.
 
Senior J.J. Lucido (Woodstock, Md./St. Paul's) launched an epic two-run homer – the first long ball of his career – in the bottom of the seventh to give the Bullets a 4-3 lead in the second game. But the Fords answered with a three-run eighth and held on for a 7-5 victory.
 
Haverford (19-14-1, 10-7-1 CC) also won the opener 13-6 and clinches the No. 2 seed in the Centennial Conference playoffs. Gettysburg (22-15-2, 10-8 CC) finishes in fourth place in the conference and will make its fourth CC playoff appearance over the last five years when it visits top-seeded Johns Hopkins on Thursday. Haverford will host Ursinus in the other first-round game.
 
Lucido and fellow seniors Connor Tom (Reinholds, Pa./Conrad Weiser) and Will Anderson (Long Valley, N.J./West Morris Central) all enjoyed big performances in their final outings at Kirchhoff Field. Lucido finished 4-for-10 while Tom went 6-for-10 with two doubles, a triple, and five RBIs. Anderson went 4-for-8, and he also slugged two doubles and a triple.
 
Junior Chuck Probst (North Bend, Pa./Bucktail) became the fourth Bullet to achieve 100 career hits when he reached the milestone with a bunt single in the second game.
 
Gettysburg's eight seniors were honored prior to the start of the game, and between games a "Take ALS Yard Day" ceremony was held as the baseball team's "Take ALS Yard" efforts were recognized.
 
In the opener, the Bullets led 1-0 in the first versus starter Brandon Jenkins when Anderson doubled and was singled home by Tom. But Haverford answered with a two-run second before breaking the game open with an eight-run third, highlighted by a three-run homer from Ethan Lee-Tyson.
 
Gettysburg cut the deficit to 10-4 with a three-run third, when Tom roped a two-run double before scoring on a two-bagger from Lucido. However, the Fords added an insurance run in the sixth and two more in the seventh to go up 13-4. Gettysburg continued to hit the ball well, however, and scored a run in the seventh on an RBI-double from Anderson, who also tripled and scored on a Tom double in the ninth.
 
Jenkins (2-1) allowed five runs over seven innings and earned the win for Haverford. Senior Eric Brown (Marriottsville, Md./Marriotts Ridge) started for the Bullets and was handed the loss after pitching two innings. Freshman Jack Havard (New Canaan, Conn./New Canaan), freshman Will Valentine (McLean, Va./Potomac School), and sophomore Will Gibson (Washington, D.C./Woodrow Wilson) all saw action on the mound for Gettysburg, with Gibson blanking Haverford over the final two innings.
 
Anderson finished 3-for-4 with two doubles, a triple, and three runs scored in the opener while Tom went 3-for-5 with two doubles and four RBIs. Lucido was 3-for-5 with a double.
 
In the second game, the Fords scored twice in the top of the first versus Gettysburg starter Chase Stopyra (Ocean, N.J./Christian Brothers Academy), who was pitching on two days rest. But the Bullets answered in the first on an RBI-triple from Tom.
 
Stopyra blanked Haverford over the next two innings before running into trouble with two outs in the fourth. However, that's when sophomore Will Wortmann (Bedford, N.Y./Fox Lane) came on to induce an inning-ending groundout with the bases loaded. Wortmann would go on to shut out the Fords over the next two innings.
 
The Bullets rallied to tie the game in the fifth versus starter Dylan Livingston before taking the lead on a single from freshman Tyler Mitchell (Arnold, Md./Broadneck) against reliever Ben Verducci in the sixth that made it 3-2.
 
The lead would change hands three more times before the end of the contest. Haverford scored twice in the top of the seventh to make it 4-3, but Gettysburg answered with a two-out rally in the bottom of the inning versus Patrick O'Shea. Tom singled before Lucido launched his majestic drive well over the leftfield fence to hand the lead back to the Bullets. But in the top of the inning, the Fords pushed across three unearned run on three hits and an error versus Wortmann and senior Aaron Bezio (Stafford, Va./Mountain View), capped by a two-run double from Spencer Sohmer.
 
Gettysburg put together another rally in the eighth, but O'Shea escaped a bases-loaded jam with a groundout. With darkness setting in, Bezio left a pair of runners aboard in the top of the ninth, and Tom led off the bottom of the inning with a single. But O'Shea (2-1) coaxed a 6-4-3 double play before getting a line-out to end the game and pick up the win.
 
Tom went 3-for-5 with a double in the nightcap while Mitchell finished with a pair of hits. Bezio (0-3) allowed just a pair of unearned runs but was charged with the loss.