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Gettysburg's big second inning and second-to-last inning combined to spoil Senior Day for the Muhlenberg baseball team. The Bullets swept a doubleheader, 8-5 and 6-3, dealing a blow to the Mules' Centennial Conference playoff hopes.

Gettysburg took advantage of three errors to score six runs - only one of them earned - in the second inning of the opener.

Muhlenberg (12-15, 6-8) bounced right back with three runs in the bottom of the inning to cut the gap in half against the Bullet ace, who came in with a 0.84 ERA. Senior Nick Plinio led off with his fourth home run of the season, and his second in as many home games. A pair of Gettysburg errors brought in two more runs.

A double by senior Brett Rosen and a single by senior Nick Kennedy to open the third made it 6-4. The score remained that way through the middle innings before the Bullets (19-10, 8-5) added single insurance runs in the seventh and eighth.

Though tagged with the loss, senior David Anderson pitched into the eighth and allowed only two earned runs. Rosen had three hits.

The Mules took the early lead in the nightcap. Senior Michael Giordano struck out to lead off the first but reached first on a wild pitch and came around to score (pictured above) when senior Jimmy Cody hit a triple to the gap in left-center - his fifth extra-base hit in the last four games. Cody scored the second run on a bloop single by Kennedy.

Senior Chris Manfredonia singled in Muhlenberg's third run in the fourth inning. Freshman Timmy Pilrun pitched a strong first six innings, allowing only one earned run and striking out six.

Gettysburg tied the game in the seventh and went ahead with a three-run eighth. The Mules got the tying run to the plate in the bottom of the ninth but could not cash in.

The twin losses dropped Muhlenberg into a tie for sixth place in the CC with four games remaining in the regular season, including a doubleheader at first-place Johns Hopkins next Saturday.

Muhlenberg recognized its large class of 19 seniors (not including fifth-year seniors Rosen and Kennedy) prior to the doubleheader. In addition to Plinio, Anderson, Giordano, Cody, Manfredonia and relievers Austin Cush and Phillip Balseca (each of whom pitched 1 2/3 innings of scoreless relief against Gettysburg), the group includes Matt Clarke, Seth Fenster, Christian Ferlan, Nick Gies, Kurt Johnson, Daniel Kaminsky, Matthew Lawsky, Conor McDermott, Vince Nardone and Danny Usewick.