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GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Gettysburg rallied from a 5-0 deficit in the opener before senior Chase Stopyra (Ocean, N.J./Christian Brothers Academy) fired a six-hit shutout in the nightcap as the Bullets earned a doubleheader sweep over Washington College in Centennial Conference (CC) baseball action Saturday at Kirchhoff Field.
 
The Bullets (16-8-2, 4-1 CC) won the first game 7-6, overcoming six errors and scoring all seven of their runs in the sixth inning. The Orange and Blue followed up with a 6-0 Game Two victory in which the offense outhit the Shoremen 14-6 and the defense bounced back with an error-less performance.
 
It was the second shutout in as many starts for Stopyra (2-0), who has yielded just two earned runs over 33 1/3 innings pitched this season, good for a conference-leading 0.54 ERA. Stopyra did not walk a batter while striking out four, and he also aided his cause with 10 assists.
 
Senior Will Anderson (Long Valley, N.J./West Morris Central) and junior Chuck Probst (North Bend, Pa./Bucktail) each finished 4-for-9 at the plate for Gettysburg, which remained undefeated at home (7-0-1) on the season. Probst drove home the go-ahead run with a two-run single in the opener, and he would bat safely in the nightcap as well to extend his hitting streak to 29 games, which is now the third-longest in Centennial Conference history.

Anderson also crossed the plate twice to become just the 10th player in program history to score 100 career runs.

Washington (10-16, 1-5 CC) jumped to a 3-0 lead in the opener versus Gettysburg starter Brad DeMartino (Westfield, N.J./Westfield), who would settle in to blank the Shoremen over the next three innings. However, the visitors pushed across a pair of unearned runs in the fifth to assume their 5-0 advantage.
 
DeMartino struck out the leadoff batter in the sixth, but left the game after the next two batters reached on errors. However, freshman Jack Havard (New Canaan, Conn./New Canaan) pulled the Bullets out of the jam, leaving runners on the corners by getting a groundout and a strikeout.
 
Washington starter Billy Griffin yielded just two hits over the first five innings before the Bullets broke through in the sixth. Probst sparked the rally with a one-out single before junior Logan Sneed (Newtown, Pa./Germantown Academy) reached on an error. Anderson, senior Connor Tom (Reinholds, Pa./Conrad Weiser), senior J.J. Lucido (Woodstock, Md./St. Paul's) would follow up with three straight RBI-singles, making it 5-3. Griffin then walked freshman Joe Giovinco (Stirling, N.J./Seton Hall Prep) to load the bases, prompting a pitching change.
 
Reliever P.J. Mikulus would run into control issues, allowing the Bullets to pull even when freshman Dominick Gasparro (Clarksburg, N.J./Princeton Day School) drew a walk and pinch hitter Josh Cubell (Lititz, Pa./Manheim Township) was hit with a pitch. Two batters later, Probst delivered his big two-run single as Gettysburg assumed a 7-5 advantage.
 
Havard (1-1), who earned the win in relief, walked the leadoff hitter in the seventh, and that's when senior Aaron Bezio (Stafford, Va./Mountain View) was summoned out of the bullpen. The Shoremen touched Bezio with two singles to pull to within a run, but he escaped from the inning with a strikeout. He would go on to retire five of the last six batters he would face, including an inning-ending double play in the eighth, to earn his third save of the season. Bezio struck out four without walking a batter over three innings pitched.
 
Gasparro finished 3-for-3 at the plate for the Bullets in the opener while Probst went 2-for-4.
 
DeMartino came away with a no-decision, yielding five runs (three earned) on seven hits over 5 1/3 innings. He struck out eight.
 
Probst jumpstarted the Bullet offense in the nightcap, driving a ball deep into the right-center gap for a leadoff triple in the bottom of the first. He would then beat a throw home when Washington went to the plate on Sneed's grounder to first.
 
Gettysburg went on to open up some breathing room versus starter Logan Dubbe with a three-run fifth to assume a 4-0 lead. Anderson singled home a run before Tom provided the big blow with a two-run double. Anderson would set the final score with a two-run single in the eighth versus reliever Nick Roberi.
 
It was more than enough offense for Stoyra, who retired eight in a row at one point from the third through the fifth. He faced his biggest threat in the sixth, when Matt Tancredi smacked a one-out double, then moved to third on a Charlie Meder single. But Stopyra dug in to record a 1-6 fielder's choice before inducing an inning-ending flyout.
 
Washington also put runners on first and second with one out in the eighth, but that's when Stopyra recorded his fourth and final strikeout before escaping with a pop-out to first. He would go on to toss a three-up, three-down ninth to nail down the victory.
 
Anderson went 3-for-5 with three RBIs while Probst, Sneed, sophomore Brendan Wright (Bayville, N.Y./Locust Valley), and Cubell collected two hits each.
 
Gettysburg returns to action on Sunday, when it visits Franklin & Marshall at 2 p.m. in a Centennial Conference make-up game.