Gettysburg and Franklin & Marshall received complete-game pitching performances to advance to the winners' bracket of the 2013 Centennial Conference baseball championship on Friday.

Gettysburg 5, Haverford 3
Senior Ryan Taylor (Eldersburg, Md./Loyola Blakefield) scattered 10 hits for his school-record 23rd complete game, and the Gettysburg College baseball team celebrated its first-ever home conference playoff game with a 5-3 victory over Haverford College in the first round of the Centennial Conference Tournament on Friday at a sun-drenched Kirchhoff Field. The third-seeded Bullets (30-11) move on to the winner's bracket to face fourth-seeded Franklin & Marshall College, a 3-0 winner over top-seeded and sixth-ranked Johns Hopkins University in the other first-round game. Gettysburg and F&M will meet at 12:30 p.m. at Johns Hopkins, the site for the remainder of the tournament. Haverford (27-10) will now take on the Blue Jays in the loser's bracket on Saturday at 9 a.m. Junior Al Posch (Hopedale, Mass./Hopedale) put Gettysburg in front to stay with an RBI-single in the third inning while also pushing his hitting streak to 26 games. Senior Pat Cody (Chesapeake, Va./Great Bridge) went 3-for-4 and pulled into a tie for third in school history in career hits (181) while reaching base safely in his 30th straight game. He is now 12 for his last 16 and has hit safely in 28 of his last 29 games. Junior Austin Davis (New York, N.Y./Riverdale Country School) added a 2-for-4 day at the plate for the Bullets while picking up his 100th career hit on an RBI infield single. William Bannard went 3-for-4 for the Haverford while Nick Miranda finished 2-for-4.

• Mike Rubin of The Evening Sun writes that Ryan Taylor had one wish entering his senior season - earning a playoff berth. And the senior lefty made the most of his chance in a gritty 141-pitch effort vs. Haverford.

Franklin & Marshall 3, Johns Hopkins 0
Brendan DeMond tossed a complete-game four-hit shutout to lift Franklin & Marshall past No. 6 Johns Hopkins 3-0 in the opening round of the Centennial Conference (CC) Baseball Tournament on Friday afternoon. The fourth-seeded Diplomats improve to 21-17 with the victory and will meet second-seeded Gettysburg (30-11), a 5-3 winner over third-seeded Haverford in Friday's other first-round matchup, tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. The top-seeded Blue Jays (33-7) will take on Haverford in an elimination game at 9:00 a.m. DeMond threw a gem for F&M, limiting the Blue Jays to just four hits and six baserunners. He retired the side in order in six innings, including each of the final four frames, and put away 13-straight batters to close out the contest. The senior righthander struck out six and walked just one for his third complete-game outing of the year to lead the Diplomats to the win. F&M jumped out in front 1-0 in the top of the first on an RBI single from Kevin Shields. Will Benenson kept the inning alive with a two-out double ripped to the gap in right center, before Shields blooped a single to shallow left field that allowed Benenson to race home from second for the 1-0 Diplomat edge. Matt Mezansky's one-out solo home run in the top of the fourth –his first career round-tripper – pushed the lead to 2-0, while Rob Anderson's two-out RBI single in the ninth gave DeMond all the support he would need as the Diplomats walked away with the 3-0 victory.