THE FACTS
No. 21 Gettysburg (18-1) 16, Penn State-Berks (4-14) 1 (Game 1)
No. 21 Gettysburg (19-1) 14, Penn State-Berks (4-15) 1 (Game 2)
What: Non-conference baseball doubleheader
When: Sunday, Mar. 23
Where: Gettysburg, Pa.
THE SKINNY STORY
Gettysburg, ranked 21st in the latest D3baseball.com poll, had an eight-run inning in the first game and a seven-run frame in the second game to key a doubleheader sweep of Penn State-Berks. The Bullets took the opener 16-1 and the nightcap, 14-1.
THE LEADERS
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Will Stellato (Fairfield, Conn./Fairfield Warde) led the Bullets with three hits, five RBIs and two runs scored in the two games.
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Brendan Trotta (Manhasset, N.Y./Manhasset) threw six scoreless innings in game one with two hits and three strikeouts.
• Ryan Wootton (Glen Mills, Pa./Garnet Valley) matched Trotta in game two with six scoreless, fanning five and allowing three hits.
FOR THE FOES
• Travis Schiller led the Lions with three hits on the day.
THE REST OF THE STORY
• With two outs in the third inning of a scoreless game one,
Jack Pistner (Ellicott City, Md./Centennial) poked a single through the right side.
Will Stellato followed with a double to stake Gettysburg to a 1-0 lead.
• An error, stolen base and wild pitch on a strikeout put runners at the corners in the home fourth. A
Brendan Laqui (Randolph, N.J./Randolph) squeeze made it 2-0 before a
Robert Murphy (Berkeley Heights, N.J./Gov. Livingston) sharp liner scored
Jack Amirata (Montclair, N.J./Montclair Kimberley Academy) for a 3-0 lead.
• Four straight free passes to start the fifth tacked on a fourth run before a sacrifice fly and another walk made it 5-0 with the bases loaded. A two-out Pistner walk, Stellato single and
Ben Leshgold (Los Angeles, Calif./Windward) pinch-hit double made it 10-0. A
Matt Nichols (White Plains, N.Y./Byram Hills) infield single and throwing error capped an eight-run inning.
• Dominic Balsamo (Brooklyn, N.Y./Xaverian) led off the sixth with a pinch-hit single for his first career knock. Two more walks, a hit batter and two-run Leshgold single made it 15-0 before a pair of wild pitches stretched the lead to 16.
• A Travis Schiller walk, wild pitch and Andrew Seibert single set the final score in the top of the seventh.
• In the nightcap, Murphy reached on a throwing error to start the bottom of the first before a one-out walk to Pistner and Stellato two-run double made it 2-0.
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Brian Andersen (Chester, N.J./West Morris Mendham) and
Henry Smith (Carlisle, Pa./Carlisle) each singled to lead off the second before a sacrifice and strikeout-wild pitch made it 3-0 with runners at the corners. After Burke stole second, a Pistner sacrifice fly scored two for a 5-0 lead.
• Four walks and three hit batters keyed a seven-run third. Burke added a two-run single in the frame and
David Ruckman (Collegeville, Pa./Spring-Ford) capped the inning with an RBI single through the right side to stretch the advantage to 12-0.
• Ruckman and
Alexey Stout (Wall, N.J./Christian Brothers Academy) each singled to lead off the sixth before a hit batter, RBI groundout and error stretched the lead to 14-0.
• Schiller led off the seventh with an hot-shot infield single before a Brendan Altman singled and Jacob Berzonski RBI groundout broke up the shutout with one out.
THE INSIDE STORY
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Jack Pistner,
Will Stellato and
Ben Leshgold all had two hits in game one. Leshgold drove in three.
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David Ruckman was the only Bullet with two hits in game two.
• Gettysburg scored its 16 runs in game one on 11 hits, drawing 10 walks in addition to two hit batters. In game two, the Bullets had just eight hits but walked eight more times and were hit four times.
• Pistner added two more RBIs on the day to give him 40 on the season and 133 for his career to establish a new program record.
NEXT UP
Gettysburg returns to action at Messiah on Tuesday. Game time is 3:30 p.m.
