GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Penn State Harrisburg scored four runs in the top of the seventh inning on the way to a 7-4 non-conference victory over Gettysburg College at Kirchhoff Field on Tuesday.
Gettysburg (6-4) put runners in scoring position in each of the first two innings before cashing in two runs in the third. The Bullets did all their damage with two outs as junior
Ryan LaCoe (Hershey, Pa./Hershey) singled to left field and swiped second base. Freshman
Shane Manieri (Harleysville, Pa./La Salle College) followed with a walk before back-to-back RBI singles by sophomore
Sean Murphy (Westfield, Mass./Westfield) and freshman
Mark Seibert (Yardley, Pa./Holy Ghost Prep) scored both runners.
Sophomore
Dan Ball (Bernardsville, N.J./Bernards) held Penn State Harrisburg (10-2-1) hitless through the first three innings before a lead-off single by Miguel Torres in the fourth. Torres came around to score on a single by Ryan McSorley to put the Lions on the scoreboard.
After relieving Ball with the bases loaded in the fifth inning, sophomore
Myles Burbank (Rye, N.Y./Rye) nearly escaped the jam with a potential double play ball to short, but the Bullets were unable to complete the play with the tying run coming home. Burbank fanned McSorley with runners on first and third.
The Lions took the lead with a four-run seventh. After two runs came home on a single to left, Travis Van Houten knocked the ball all the way to the fence in deep center for an RBI triple. A passed ball scored Van Houten to make it 6-2. Gettysburg avoided more damage with Murphy gunning down McSorley attempting to score on a fly out to right field to end the inning.
The Bullets picked up a run in the home half of the frame on a passed ball, but lefty reliever Tyler Stabley effectively shut down the hosts over the final 2.2 innings, allowing a single by Murphy in the eighth and a pinch-hit single by junior
Ryan Augustus (Freehold, N.J./Princeton Day School) in the ninth. Augustus would tally the game's final run a groundout.
Murphy finished 3-for-4 with one RBI, while Seibert and sophomore
Matt Szczesny (Schwenksville, Pa./Perkiomen Valley) each tallied two hits.
Gettysburg picks action back up Wednesday with a non-conference meeting at home against Lebanon Valley College at 3:30 p.m.
