Box Score

LANCASTER, Pa. – Gettysburg rallied with five runs over the last two innings, then held off a ninth-inning comeback from Franklin & Marshall to beat the host Diplomats 7-6 in Centennial Conference (CC) baseball action on Sunday.
 
With the victory, the Bullets (17-8-2, 5-1 CC) pushed their winning streak to four, swept the season series from F&M, and moved into a three-way tie with Johns Hopkins and Ursinus for first place in the Centennial Conference standings.
 
The Bullets took a 7-4 lead into the bottom of the ninth, only to see Franklin & Marshall (14-10-1, 3-2-1 CC) score twice and put the tying run on first. But senior Aaron Bezio (Stafford, Va./Mountain View) nailed down his school-record-tying fourth save of the year when he induced a slow grounder to freshman shortstop Joe Giovinco (Stirling, N.J./Seton Hall Prep), who made a strong throw to just beat the runner at first for the final out. It was also the third save of the week for Bezio, who holds the career school record with nine saves.
 
Gettysburg rallied beyond the fifth inning for the second day in a row; the Bullets also erased a 5-0 deficit in their 7-6 victory over Washington College on Saturday.
 
Sophomore Brendan Wright (Bayville, N.Y./Locust Valley) finished 3-for-4 with a pair of runs for Gettysburg. He also sparked a three-run ninth with a leadoff single and would go on to score the go-ahead run.
 
Junior Logan Sneed (Newtown, Pa./Germantown Academy) and senior J.J. Lucido (Woodstock, Md./St. Paul's) added two hits apiece for the Bullets while junior Chuck Probst (North Bend, Pa./Bucktail) singled to stretch his hitting streak to 30 games.
 
Sophomore Will Wortmann (Bedford, N.Y./Fox Lane) earned the victory with three innings of relief, allowing just one run on no hits and two walks. Bezio recorded the final three outs while yielding one run on two hits.
 
Casey Bulik (0-1) suffered the loss in relief for F&M after Andrew Mascis pitched the first eight innings, allowing four unearned runs on seven hits.
 
A pair of Diplomat errors allowed Gettysburg to score single runs in the third and the fourth innings, and the Bullets led 2-0 early on. Senior Eric Brown (Marriottsville, Md./Marriotts Ridge) blanked F&M over the first three innings and escaped a one-out, bases-loaded jam in the third; however, the hosts broke through with a four-run, six-hit fifth to assume their 4-2 advantage.
 
After Mascis tossed three straight shutout innings, Sneed sparked Gettysburg in the eighth with a leadoff bunt single. Tom would reach on an outfield error before Lucido roped an RBI-single. Giovinco then drove in the tying run on a groundout.
 
Wright opened the ninth with an infield single versus Bulik and was bunted to second by junior Josh Cubell (Lititz, Pa./Manheim Township). Probst was then intentionally walked, and a passed ball put runners on second and third. Sneed followed up with a single to third that scored Wright, and Probst would score when senior Will Anderson (Long Valley, N.J./West Morris Central) reached on an infield error, making it 6-4. After Tom drew a walk, Lucido brought home a vital insurance run with a sacrifice fly to center, scoring Sneed.
 
Wortmann (1-1) came on in the sixth and shut out F&M over the next three innings. But he was relieved by Bezio in the ninth after walking the leadoff batter. After a pop-out behind the plate, cleanup hitter David Iacobucci stroked an RBI-double and moved to third on an outfield error. Bezio struck out Kengo Kawahara looking, but Chris Vincent made it a one-run game with a single to left before Reed Williams grounded out to Giovinco to end the game.
 
Gettysburg continues its season on Wednesday, when it visits 16th-ranked Johns Hopkins at 3:30 p.m.