Gettysburg, Pa. - Dickinson College broke a 3-3 tie with a pair of runs in the top of the seventh inning of Wednesday's Centennial Conference baseball game at Gettysburg College and held on for a 5-4 victory at Kirchhoff Field.
 
The Red Devils (16-14, 4-7 CC) opened the scoring on Wednesday with a three-run third inning. Following an error by the Bullets, Lukas Atsali hit a two-run double before coming home on a Cole Hare double to give the visitors a 3-0 advantage.
 
The Bullets (15-16, 6-5 CC) used a three-run inning of their own in the home fourth to knot the score back up at 3-3.
 
Senior Matt Muir (South Easton, Mass./Oliver Ames) came in with the host's first run courtesy of a sacrifice fly from sophomore David Preziuso (Middletown, Del./Caravel Academy).  
 
Junior Matthew Peipher (Lititz, Pa./Manheim Township) then connected on a two-run triple that plated sophomore Tristan Neels (San Diego, Calif./Francis W. Parker) and senior Andrew Decker (Baltimore, Md./Towson).
 
The score remained tied until the visitor's seventh when Dickinson pushed two runs across to take a 5-3 lead. Atsali scored on a triple from Hare, who was then brought in by a Mark Torres sacrifice fly.
 
Gettysburg drew back to within a run in the bottom of the seventh when junior Preston Toothman (Orlando, Fla./William R. Boone) drove in senior Mark Seibert (Yardley, Pa./Holy Ghost Preparatory) with a double.
 
That would mark the end of the scoring, though, as Seibert was the only Gettysburg batter to reach base over the final two frames, drawing a one-out walk in the ninth inning. Dickinson's Beau Dana stranded Seibert at first with a strikeout and a groundout to end the game.
 
Sophomore starting pitcher Cole Wong (Vero Beach, Fla./Xavier) went 4.2 innings and yielded three unearned runs on three hits while striking out one batter. 
 
Senior Nate Masteralexis (Amherst, Mass./Amherst Regional) retired two batters and allowed two hits, while junior Ken Spadaccini (Cresskill, N.J./Cresskill) was charged with the loss after yielding a pair of runs in 0.2 innings.
 
Junior Brett Leighton (Collegeville, Pa./Pope John Paul II) pitched three scoreless innings to close out the contest on the mound, yielding one hit and fanning two batters.
 
The Red Devils held a 7-5 edge in hits for the game and did not commit an error in the contest. Four Dickinson pitchers combined to strikeout out six batters while walking two. 
 
The Bullets received their five hits on the day from five different players.
 
Gettysburg and Dickinson will close out their season series on Friday at Dickinson. First pitch of the conference matchup is set for 3:30 p.m. in Carlisle.