THE FACTS
No. 13 Gettysburg (23-4, 2-3 CC) 16, Haverford (12-10, 1-4 CC) 10 (Game 1)
Haverford (13-10, 2-4 CC) 11, No. 13 Gettysburg (24-4, 2-4 CC) 8 (Game 2 – 8 inn.)
What: Centennial Conference (CC) baseball doubleheader
When: Saturday, Apr. 5
Where: Haverford, Pa.
THE SKINNY STORY
Gettysburg, ranked 13th in the latest D3baseball.com poll, scored three or more runs in four innings to split a doubleheader at Haverford. The Bullets took game one 16-10 before the Fords plated three runs in the bottom of the eighth for an 11-2 win in the nightcap.
THE LEADERS
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Jack Burke (Montclair, N.J./Montclair) led the Bullets with a 5-for-5 game two that included his second two-home run game in the last eight days.
FOR THE FOES
• Harry Genth had four hits and five RBIs in the two games to lead the Fords.
THE REST OF THE STORY
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Jack Pistner (Ellicott City, Md./Centennial) blasted a one-out home run to right field in the top of the first inning for a 1-0 lead.
• With two outs in the home first, Anthony Runfola drew a walk before a Jack Wallis hit, two errors and a Jonny Flieder RBI single put Haverford in front, 2-1.
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Will Stellato (Fairfield, Conn./Fairfield Warde) led off the third with a single before scoring on a two-out
Dominick Balsamo (Brooklyn, N.Y./Xaverian) single to tie the game.
• A one-out double from Runfola and Wallis RBI single to center put the Fords back in front, 3-2.
• Fliedler then led off the fourth with a single, stole second, moved to third on a groundout and scored on a wild pitch for a 4-2 lead.
• After a Stellato leadoff single,
Jack Amirata (Montclair, N.J./Montclair Kimberley Academy) went deep to tie the game. With two outs,
Will Roche (Milton, Mass./Boston College H.S.) had a pinch-hit double before scoring on a
Brendan Laqui (Randolph, N.J./Randolph) single for a 5-4 advantage.
• Haverford tied it in the bottom of the inning on three straight two-out singles.
• In the top of the sixth,
Jack Burke was hit by a pitch and Pistner walked. A one-out walk to Amirata loaded the bases before
Matt Nichols (White Plains, N.Y./Byram Hills) also drew a walk to force in the go-ahead run. A Balsamo sacrifice fly made it 7-5.
• Two hit batters in the bottom of the sixth set up a Harry Genth three-run home run and Wallis two-out solo shot for a 9-7 Haverford lead.
• In the top of the seventh, however, the Bullets drew seven walks and were hit twice to key a nine-run frame for a 16-9 lead. Amirata also had a two-run single in the inning before the Fords got one back in the bottom of the inning for the final margin.
• In game two, Burke led off the game with a single up the middle before stealing both second and third and scoring on a two-out Amirata single for a 1-0 lead.
• Daniel Rosman walked to start the home half of the inning before taking second on a wild pitch and scoring on a Genth single up the middle. A one-out Wallis single made it 2-1.
• A Wallis walk and singles from Chuck Norton and Flieder made it 3-1 in the third.
• In the fourth,
Robert Murphy (Berkeley Heights, N.J./Gov. Livingston) walked to lead off the inning before Burke took a 1-1 pitch deep to left and tied the game at 3-all. Pistner followed with a single up the middle, stole second and score on a two-out Balsamo single for a 4-3 edge.
• A one-out Luke Treese home run tied the game in the bottom of the fifth before a walk, two-out double and error made it 6-4.
• Burke led off the sixth with his second home run of the game to cut the deficit to one before back-to-back homers from Flieder and Jackson Sgro with one out in int eh home half pushed the lead to 8-5.
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Adam Hicks (Edgewater, Md./Gilman School) walked to start the eighth before Burke doubled to put two in scoring position. Pistner followed with a two-run single to right to cut the deficit to 8-7 before pinch-runner
Henry Smith (Carlisle, Pa./Carlisle) stole second. He then scored the tying run on an overthrow while stealing third.
• With the umpires declaring the game would be over after the bottom of the eighth due to darkness, Sgro led off with a single up the middle. Pinch-runner Mauro DeCillis stole second then moved to third on a balk before scoring on a one-out Kendrick Curry II single up the middle for the go-ahead run. A two-out single and Runfola two-run double set the final score.
THE INSIDE STORY
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Jack Pistner's first-inning game one home run was his sixth of the season and 18th career long ball for a new program record for career home runs. He also finished the day with 53 RBIs for the season to establish a new single-season program record just 28 games into the year to pass Nate Simon's 2014 record of 49.
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Jack Amirata and
Will Stellato both had three hits in game one. Amirata added four RBIs while
Dominick Balsamo and Pistner drove in three each.
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Zach Klein (West Chester, Pa./West Chester Henderson) pitcked up the win with 2 1/3 innings of relief work.
• Pistner and Balsamo both had two hits in game two.
NEXT UP
Gettysburg returns to action at home against Dickinson on Tuesday. Game time is 3:30 p.m.
