THE FACTS
No. 25 Gettysburg (13-1) 11, Penn State-Behrend (8-4) 3
What: Non-conference baseball game
When: Saturday, Mar. 14
Where: Fort Pierce, Fla.
THE SKINNY STORY
Gettysburg, ranked 25th in the latest D3baseball.com poll, scored six runs in the third and added five more in the fourth for an 11-3 win over Penn State-Behrend.
THE LEADERS
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Will Stellato (Fairfield, Conn./Fairfield Warde) led the Bullets with three hits and two RBIs.
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Alex Wilkie-Viscio (Plymouth Meeting, Pa./Plymouth Whitemarsh) went eight innings on the mound with four strikeouts and no walks to pick up his third win of the season.
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Jack Amirata (Montclair, N.J./Montclair Kimberley Academy) added three hits of his own.
FOR THE FOES
• Paul Connolly went 3-for-4 with a run scored to lead the Lions.
THE REST OF THE STORY
• With one out in the third,
Henry Smith (Carlisle, Pa./Carlisle Area) beat out an infield single before
Robert Murphy (Berkeley Heights, N.J./Gov. Livingston) walked. Three straight RBI singles from
Will Stellato,
Dominick Balsamo (Brooklyn, N.Y./Xaverian) and
Jack Amirata staked Gettysburg to a 3-0 lead.
Brayden Casas (New Rochelle, N.Y./New Rochelle) tripled to right to make it 4-0 before
Will Roche (Milton, Mass./Boston College H.S.) took a 3-2 pitch down the line and out for a 6-0 lead.
• An Adam Cooper two-out single and Dylan Barnes double made it 6-1 in the bottom of the third.
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Adam Hicks (Edgewater, Md./Gilman School) singled to lead off the fourth before Stellato doubled with two outs to make it 7-1. Balsamo went yard for a two-run shot and 9-1 advantage. An Amirata double forced a pitching change before a walk and error made it 11-1.
• A leadoff Paul Connolly double and two-out Joey Fazzone single made it 11-2 in the bottom of the fifth before two walks and a Danny Pederson double loaded the bases with one out in the ninth. A Cayden Turner foul ball sacrifice fly set the final margin.
THE INSIDE STORY
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Henry Smith,
Dominick Balsamo,
Brayden Casas and
Adam Hicks all added two hits for the Bullets.
• Balsamo drove in three runs, including two on his second home run of the season.
• Gettysburg pounded out 17 hits on the day.
NEXT UP
Gettysburg returns to action at home against Marymount on Tuesday. Game time is 3 p.m.
