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BALTIMORE – The Gettysburg College baseball team erased an early four-run deficit, but third-seeded Ursinus College put together a rally of its own late in the game and defeated the second-seeded Bullets 10-7 in the first elimination game of the Centennial Conference playoffs Saturday morning at tournament host Johns Hopkins University.
 
Gettysburg (22-17-2) trailed 4-0 after three innings, but scored six unanswered runs to assume the lead. However, Ursinus (24-15) came back with six runs of its own in the seventh and eighth innings to pull away.

The Bullets finish the season with their sixth-straight 20-win campaign. The team was also making its fourth Centennial Conference playoff appearance in the last five years.
 
Senior J.J. Lucido (Woodstock, Md./St. Paul's) drove in three runs in his final game as a Bullet while freshman Banks Northington (Charlottesville, Va./Charlottesville) went 2-for-5 with a double in his first career start.
 
Senior Chase Stopyra (Ocean, N.J./Christian Brothers Academy) started on the mound for Gettysburg and pitched seven innings before leaving the game with the score tied 6-6 to come away with a no-decision. Sophomore Will Wortmann (Bedford, N.Y./Fox Lane) was charged with the loss in relief.
 
Alex Mumme hit two home runs for Ursinus while the Bears' bullpen held the Bullets to one run over the final 4 2/3 innings.
 
Ursinus pushed across three runs in the second and another on a solo homer from Mumme in the third. But that's when Gettysburg went to the long ball to climb back into it. Junior Chuck Probst (North Bend, Pa./Bucktail) led off the fourth with a home run, launching a majestic drive over the leftfield wall, before Lucido lined an opposite-field two-run shot to make it 4-3.
 
It was the seventh home run of the season for Probst, who finishes one shy of the single-season school record, and the second for Lucido.
 
The Bullets came all the way back to take the lead with a three-run fifth versus starter Pierce Greenleaf. Freshman Tate Frodsham (McKinney, Texas./McKinney North) reached on an error leading off before junior Logan Sneed (Newtown, Pa./Germantown Academy) and Probst drew back-to-back walks to load the bases. Frodsham tied the game when he scored on an RBI-fielder's choice from senior Will Anderson (Long Valley, N.J./West Morris Central). Senior Connor Tom (Reinholds, Pa./Conrad Weiser) then greeted reliever Matt Radwanski with an RBI-single to right, making it 5-4, before Lucido lofted a sacrifice fly to right.
 
In the meantime, Stopyra settled in on the mound, blanking the Bears from the fourth through the sixth. However, Ursinus pulled even in the seventh, getting a leadoff single from Vincent Terry before Mumme launched his second homer of the game with a two-run shot.
 
Gettysburg threatened in the top of the eighth versus reliever David Drea, when sophomore Brendan Wright (Bayville, N.Y./Locust Valley) singled and Probst walked; however, Drea escaped with a groundout.
 
Wortmann (2-4) came on for Stopyra in the eighth, when Ursinus loaded the bases with no outs. Senior Aaron Bezio (Stafford, Va./Mountain View) was then summoned out of the bullpen, and pinch-hitter Alex Petorak cracked a go-ahead, two-run double to make it 8-6. Ursinus went on to push across two more runs on a single and a fielder's choice bunt.
 
Senior Rich Power (Toms River, N.J./Monsignor Donovan) then relieved Bezio with runners on the corners and still no outs. Making his first appearance since April 4 due to injury, Power recorded the final three outs of the inning, striking out a batter and yielding only an intentional walk.
 
Gettysburg added a run in the top of the ninth versus Drea (3-2), who finished with the win. He gave up just one run on two hits over three innings pitched.