THE FACTS
McDaniel (18-20-1) 9, Gettysburg (30-11) 4
What: Centennial Conference (CC) baseball tournament first round
When: Tuesday, Apr. 29
Where: Westminster, Md.
THE SKINNY STORY
McDaniel scored eight of the game's final nine runs to defeat Gettysburg 9-4 in the opening game of the 2025 Centennial Conference baseball championship tournament.
THE LEADERS
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Dominick Balsamo (Brooklyn, N.Y./Xaverian) led the Bullets with a 3-for-5 day at the plate and added two RBIs and a walk.
FOR THE FOES
• Shane Daly led the Green Terror with three hits of own and also drove in two runs.
THE REST OF THE STORY
• Ethan Haddock led off the bottom of the first with a single to gap before a Ben Davis one-out double moved Haddock to third. Shea McKenna followed with a sacrifice fly to stake McDaniel to an early 1-0 lead.
• In the top of the third,
Jack Burke (Montclair, N.J./Montclair) reached on an error to lead off the inning before
Jack Pistner (Ellicott City, Md./Centennial) and
Dominick Balsamo each singled to tie the game at 1-all. A one-out
Jack Amirata (Montclair, N.J./Montclair Kimberley Academy) single to center gave Gettysburg a 2-1 lead.
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Will Roche (Milton, Mass./Boston College H.S.) was hit by a pitch with two outs in the fifth before back-to-back walks loaded the bases. A passed ball scored Roche for a 3-1 lead before another walk reloaded the bases but the Bullets stranded the bases loaded for the third time in the first five innings.
• With one out in the bottom of the frame, Shane Daly singled and stole second before moving to third on a groundout. Back-to-back doubles from McKenna and Joey Hubinger tied the game at 3-all.
• Daly and Davis had back-to-back two-out RBI singles in the sixth to take a 5-3 lead.
• A Roche single and two free passes loaded the bases with two outs before Balsamo singled home pinch-runner
Henry Smith (Carlisle, Pa./Carlisle) to cut the deficit to 5-4 in the seventh.
• Hubinger led off the bottom of the seventh with a home run before three singles around a hit batter stretched the Green Terror lead to 8-4 with two outs.
• McDaniel set the final margin on a two-out, pinch-hit single by DJ Stolba in the eighth.
THE INSIDE STORY
• With his third inning single through the right side,
Jack Pistner recorded the 200th hit of his career. He is just the second player in program history to reach the milestone.
• McDaniel advances to the double-elimination portion of the tournament and will play top-seed Johns Hopkins in Baltimore on Thursday.
