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Winner Salisbury SAL 26-9
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Penn St.-Harrisburg PSH 25-12
Winner
Salisbury SAL
26-9
10
Final
2
Penn St.-Harrisburg PSH
25-12
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Salisbury SAL 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 5 10 8 1
Penn St.-Harrisburg PSH 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 5 2

W: Rucker, Jack (5-0) L: Fisher Druck (5-3)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Will DeBoer

No. 12 Baseball pulls away late, buries PSU-Harrisburg

MIDDLETOWN, Pa. – The 12th-ranked Salisbury University baseball team scored eight unanswered runs over its final four turns at-bat, pulling away to bury the Penn State Harrisburg Lions 10-2 for its sixth straight win on Thursday afternoon at Nittany Field.
 
The teams engaged in a tight dance over the first five innings. In the top of the second the Sea Gulls broke the ice on an RBI single by Jake Witter, which the Lions answered in the bottom of the frame on a Nathan Lapp run-scoring knock. Then in the fourth Witter brought home another on an RBI groundout; PSH punched back in the fifth as Blaine Waltimyer singled in the run to tie it at 2-2.
 
Salisbury went in front to stay in the sixth on a walk, single, and RBI single by Max Ehrhardt. Then in the seventh SU earned some breathing room as Griffin Shirk tagged a two-out, two-run base hit to build the margin to 5-2.
 
Ethan Ruiz reached on an error to lead off the ninth, then two batters later Jackson Inman tagged a two-run homer to left. Jay Newton followed by reaching on an HBP and Shirk walked, setting up Ehrhardt for a single-plus-error that chased Newton home. Witter followed with a two-run knock to center, making it a five-spot in the inning – all with two outs – to give the game its final 10-2 margin.
 
GAME NOTES
  • Jackson Inman homered for the third time in four games and reached base four other times on two walks and two HBPs, ultimately scoring four runs. Inman's home run was his 10th of the season, making him the 14th player in program history to reach double-digit dingers in one year.
  • Jake Witter notched four RBIs as part of a 2-for-4 afternoon.
  • Griffin Shirk and Max Ehrhardt each registered two hits and two rib-eyes.
  • Jack Rucker (5-0) put up another strong outing as a long man out of the bullpen, giving up one run on four hits over six innings with no walks and four strikeouts. Rucker has only walked four batters in his last 18.2 innings over four outings.
  • Ethan Hirschfeld opened and gave up one run over two innings, while Bryce Sterling handled a 1-2-3 ninth to finish off the dub.
 
The Sea Gulls will play their final Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference (C2C) game of the regular season on Saturday, visiting No. 13 Christopher Newport for a 2 p.m. first pitch.
 
Salisbury University is a proud member of NCAA Division III with primary membership in the Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference, along with affiliate membership in the New Jersey Athletic Conference (football, men's & women's swimming), Coastal Lacrosse Conference (men's lacrosse), State University of New York Athletic Conference (field hockey), and Colonial Women's Golf Conference (women's golf). With over 500 student-athletes in 23 varsity sports, SU is recognized as one of the nation's most competitive intercollegiate athletics programs regardless of division, featuring dedicated coaches and staff that foster excellence on and off the field. The Sea Gulls have won a combined 23 team national championships, 24 individual national championships, and 207 conference championships, and have produced 54 Academic All-Americans.

To Make Tomorrow Yours at Salisbury University, and learn more about Sea Gull Athletics' tradition of excellence, visit SUSeaGulls.com or follow on social media @SUSeaGulls.
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