Baseball Sweeps Bullets

3/4/2009 2:38:00 PM

WINCHESTER, Va. - Shenandoah University ran its baseball winning streak to 10 games Wednesday afternoon with a non-league doubleheader sweep over visiting Gettysburg College.

The Hornets (12-1) were 7-3 winners in game one before taking the nightcap 4-2 over the Bullets (0-2).

A six-run first inning proved more than enough for freshman Eric Rabung (3-0), who scattered six hits and three runs (two earned) in 5.0 innings of action.

Rabung turned matters over to senior Josh Simons, who struck out two and did not allow a hit in retiring the final six hitters of the contest.

SU sent 10 men to bat in that six-run first, with freshman Cory Nelson providing the big blast with a three-run HR to left center.

The Hornets banged out 10 hits off of two Bullets pitchers, chasing starter Will Kleva (0-1) nine batters into the frame.

GC took an early, 1-0, lead in the nightcap on a Scott Vladyka home run to left off of game two starter Jake Yocum, but Shenandoah rallied with two runs in the second, one in the fourth and another in the fifth.

Greg Van Sickler, who came on for Yocum in the second, earned his second victory of the spring with 3.1 innings of relief.

Matthew Davis worked a clean sixth and the opening batter of the seventh before Gage Levac recorded his fourth save of the season by inducing a pair of groundouts.

Three of the Hornets four runs were unearned as Gettysburg committed four errors in the contest. Van Sickler, who had started the game as the designated hitter before moving to the mound, scored the winning run on a Josh Simons sacrifice fly.

Van Sickler led off the fourth with a single to right center, advanced to second on a Scott Van Dusseldorp and was sacrificed to third by Nelson.
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