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CARLISLE, Pa. – A day after watching the offense light up the scoreboard at Haverford College, the Gettysburg College pitching staff posted a pair of dominating efforts as the Bullets swept Dickinson College in Centennial Conference softball action Sunday afternoon.
Gettysburg (17-8-1, 6-3-1 CC) posted 22 runs and 29 hits in a sweep of Haverford on Saturday, but on Sunday the offense took a back seat to senior
Aileen Reilly (Huntington Station, N.Y./St. Anthony's) and sophomore
Morgan Clauser (Columbus, N.J./Northern Burlington). Reilly scattered three hits and struck out three on the way to a 3-0 win in the opening game. Clauser followed with a four-hitter in a 5-0 decision.
Senior
Jamie Abell (Glenn Dale, Md./Elizabeth Seton) accounted for five of Gettysburg's 12 hits on the day. Abell moved past
Joy Hallfors '13 and
Melissa Tighe '15 into second place on the program's career hits list. With 193 base knocks, the senior is 20 behind all-time leader
Steph Zengel '16.
Reilly allowed only two runners to reach scoring position in game one and she retired 14 of the final 15 batters she faced. It was her fourth shutout and she improved to 7-5 this season.
Abell provided the first run of the game with a two-out double in the fifth inning. Sophomore
Sophia Blasius (Ramsey, N.J./Ramsey) slapped a run-scoring single in the sixth and freshman
Mattea Ghaffary (Moorpark, Calif./Moorpark) added a pinch-hit RBI single in the seventh to close the scoring.
Abell finished 3-for-4 with a run, stolen base, and one RBI.
In game two, the only trouble Clauser got into occurred in the first inning when back-to-back singles put a pair of runners on base with one out. The sophomore induced a pair of fly-outs to get out of the jam and cruised over the last six innings, allowing just two hits and stranding two runners at first base. Clauser improved to 10-2 this season.
Gettysburg capitalized on errant pitching and fielding mistakes to post all of its runs. The Bullets scored twice on wild pitches in the second inning and picked up two unearned runs in the fourth, the last coming home on a sacrifice fly by junior
Stephanie Leonardo (East Haddam, Conn./Choate Rosemary Hall). The visitor's final run came in on an error.
Abell finished 2-for-4 and Blasius drew a pair of walks.
Gettysburg hosts Lebanon Valley College for a non-conference doubleheader on Tuesday beginning at 3 p.m.