THE FACTS
Gettysburg (16-13, 3-5 CC) 10, McDaniel (15-12, 3-5 CC) 8
What: Centennial Conference (CC) baseball game
When: Friday, April 14
Where: Westminster, Md.
THE SKINNY STORY
Gettysburg and McDaniel played another back-and-forth battle, this time to extra innings, as Gettysburg swept the home-and-home series with a ten-inning 10-8 win.
THE LEADERS
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JR McCloskey (Huntingdon Station, N.Y./Chaminade) went 3-for-4 on the day, with a double, triple, and one RBI to go with two runs.
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David Preziuso (Middletown, Del./Caravel Academy) hit 3-for-5, with two RBIs and two runs.
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Jack Pistner (Ellicott City, Md./Centennial) also had a 3-for-5 day, leading the team in RBIs with four and scoring one run of his own.
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James Weedon (New Hyde Park, N.Y./Chaminade) earned the win on the bump, throwing 3.0 innings with five K's.
FOR THE FOES
• Connor Uhrig had two home runs on the day.
THE REST OF THE STORY
• Gettysburg was the first to get on the scoreboard, plating their first run in the top of the first. After
Kyle Miller (Montclair, N.J./Montclair) was hit by pitch and stole second,
Jack Pistner doubled to score Miller.
• A one-two-three top of the second and two-run bottom of the inning gave McDaniel a 2-1 lead. After a single by Billy Wheatley, Connor Uhrig hit a home run over the left field side to score McDaniel's first two runs of the game. However, Gettysburg came right back in the top of the third, scoring six runs on six hits.
JR McCloskey began the batting with a triple to center, and a single by
David Preziuso easily scored McCloskey. Miller drew a walk, and with runners on first and second, Pistner singled to bring Preziuso home. A single by
Mabret Levant (Lakeville, Pa./Wallenpaupack Area) and stolen base put two in scoring position, and a two-out, two-RBI single by
Preston Toothman (Orlando, Fla./William R. Boone) made it a 6-2 game. McCloskey came back up and doubled again to score the Bullets' final run of the inning.
• The Green Terror hit around for three more runs in the bottom of the third. A double by Tyler Yohn put him in scoring position, before Ben Davis drew a walk and Joey Hubinger tripled to score Yohn. A single by Smith scored Hubinger, before pitcher
Cole Wong (New York, N.Y./Xavier) struck two out around a pop-up to end the home half of the inning with Gettysburg leading, 7-5.
• Each team put up on run on two hits in the fifth inning. Gettysburg used singles by Preziuso and Neels, and Hubinger and Jake Smith singled for the Green Terror, as well as a sacrifice fly by Austin Goudeaux, to score their run and bring the score to 8-6 after five. McDaniel faced only four Gettysburg batters in the top of the sixth, and Uhrig hit his second homer of the game to bring the Green Terror within one in the home half of the inning.
• McDaniel recorded a one-two-three top of the seventh to hold Gettysburg scoreless, before using two singles in the bottom of the inning to tie the score, 8-all. Neither team tallied in run in the eighth inning to head into the ninth deadlocked.
• The Green Terror shut Gettysburg down in the top of the ninth with another straight one-two-three inning, but couldn't score any runs as the game went into extra innings.
• McCloskey, Preziuso, Miller, and Pistner rapped out four straight singles to score the final two runs of the game, and the Bullets recorded a one-two-three bottom of the inning to defeat the Green Terror and sweep the home-and-home series, 10-8.
THE INSIDE STORY
• Nine batters had at least one hit for Gettysburg.
• Gettysburg narrowly outhit the Green Terror, 18-17.
• With the win, Gettysburg records its first extra-innings game of the season and first sweep of a conference opponent.
NEXT UP
Gettysburg returns to action against Swarthmore tomorrow in a doubleheader. First game beings at 12 p.m.
