SWARTHMORE, Pa.--On the day it honored its seniors, Swarthmore College Baseball lost to Gettysburg College 3-1 and beat them 14-1.
The Garnet (24-9 overall, 11-3 Centennial Conference) hold their spot in a tie for first place with Johns Hopkins after Saturday.
Game One: Gettysburg 3, Swarthmore 1
Swarthmore was shut down offensively, recording just four hits. Sophomore
AJ Liu had two of them and scored the team's only run on a single by sophomore
Cole Beeker.
Freshman
Michael Sepe recorded a double in his only at bat.
Freshman
Owen Webb (1-2) made his first conference start of the season and pitched 6.1 one innings, allowing just one earned run.
Game Two: Swarthmore 14, Gettysburg 1
The Garnet bounced back quickly and loudly, scattering 14 runs across the first six innings of the second game.
Junior
Jackson Roberts hit his fifth home run of the season in the third inning to give Swarthmore a 3-0 lead. Two innings later, Beeker hit his third homer of the year to put the Garnet ahead 6-1.
Also in the fifth, senior
Matt Palmer had an RBI single, and sophomore
Kenji Yoshii had a two-RBI double.
In the next inning, sophomore
Jared Gillen, junior Connor Elliott and sophomore
AJ Liu drove in runners.
Roberts went 4-for-4 to bring his average up to .402 on the year. Beeker, Gillen, Palmer, Yoshii and junior
Charles Levitt each had two of Swarthmore's 18 hits.
Swarthmore has four conference games left. The next one is at third-place Haverford College (16-15, 9-4) on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m.
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