THE FACTS
Gettysburg (14-0) 16, Lasell (7-6) 4
What: Non-conference baseball game
When: Saturday, Mar. 15
Where: Fort Pierce, Fla.
THE SKINNY STORY
Gettysburg jumped out to a 7-1 lead in the first four innings en route to a 16-4 victory over Lasell to cap its eight-game trip to Fort Pierce, Fla., with a perfect 8-for-8 mark.
THE LEADERS
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Jack Pistner (Ellicott City, Md./Centennial) led the Bullets with four hits, three RBIs and two runs scored, including a triple.
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Matt Nichols (White Plains, N.Y./Byram Hills) added four hits of his own, chipping in two RBIs and a run scored.
FOR THE FOES
• Tim Callahan had two hits for the Lasers.
THE REST OF THE STORY
• With
Will Stellato (Fairfield, Conn./Fairfield Warde) at second after being hit by a pitch and stealing the bag,
Matt Nichols singled to center with two outs for a 1-0 lead. A walk to
Michael Fischetti (Wilton, Conn./Wilton) and
Jack Amirata's (Montclair, N.J./Montclair Kimberley Academy) first collegiate home run staked Gettysburg to a 4-0 lead.
• Back-to-back one-out doubles from Tim Callahan and Connor Freitas made it a 4-1 game in the bottom of the first.
• A
Robert Murphy (Berkeley Heights, N.J./Gov. Livingston) walk and
Jack Burke (Montclair, N.J./Montclair) single coupled with a two-out error pushed the lead to 6-1 in the second.
• A Burke doubles and
Jack Pistner RBI single made it 7-1 in the fourth before a Murphy squeeze with one out scored Amirata for an 8-1 led in the fifth.
• Scott Lyon and Jared Whitby led off the home fifth with doubles to key a three-run counter and close the deficit to 8-4.
• Singles from Pistner and Nichols in the eighth coupled with a one-out wild pitch made it 9-4 before the Bullets exploded for seven in the ninth. With the bases loaded and one out, Pistner tripled to clear the bases to make it 12-4. Doubles from
Matthew Vivona (Fairfield, Conn./Fairfield Ludlowe) and
Ben Leshgold (Los Angeles, Calif./Windward) scored the final three runs to cap the big frame.
THE INSIDE STORY
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Jack Burke,
Matthew Vivona and
Brendan Laqui (Randolph, N.J./Randolph) all had two hits.
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John Francesconi (Syracuse, N.Y./Marcellus) struck out four in 3 1/3 innings of relief to pick up the win.
NEXT UP
Gettysburg returns to action at home against Stevenson on Wednesday. Game time is 3:30 p.m.
