GETTYSBURG, Pa. – McDaniel scored six runs in the fourth inning to break open a 4-1 game, defeating Gettysburg 15-1 in Centennial Conference (CC) baseball action on Friday.

Kaleb Reitz (Halifax, Pa./Halifax) went 4-for-5 at the plate the lead the Green Terror (28-8, 9-7 CC), who rapped out 17 hits to stay alive in the conference playoff chase entering the final day of the regular season. McDaniel sits in a tie with Washington for the fourth and final playoff spot and will need to avoid a two-way tie with the Shoremen after play is concluded on Saturday. The Green Terror hosts Ursinus for a doubleheader while Washington hosts Dickinson in a twinbill.

Zach Kronick (Schenectady, N.Y./Guilderland) pitched eight innings, limiting the Bullets (24-13-1, 10-5-1 CC) to four hits and recording six strikeouts to push his program-record and conference-leading total this season to 96, which ranks third in CC history. His 207 career strikeouts ranks 15th in conference history.

Marty Windisch (Manchester, Md./Manchester Valley) became the seventh hitter in conference history to reach 200 hits for his career, rapping a one-out single to the gap in the top of the first inning.

Cameron Bahr (Southampton, N.J./Seneca) followed with a walk before a Chris Morris (Wynnewood, Pa./Harriton) fielder's choice put runners at the corners. Nick Valori (Sewell, N.J./Washington Twp.) followed with an RBI single through the left side for a 1-0 lead.

An Eric Grantland (Pasadena, Md./Northeast) single and an error stretched the lead to 3-0.

Chuck Probst led off the home first with a ground-rule double before moving to third on a Logan Sneed single and scoring on a Will Anderson RBI groundout to cut the deficit to 3-1.

Walks to Windisch and Bahr and a Morris single reestablished the three-run lead in the top of the second.

The Green Terror sent 10 batters to the plate in the fourth. Aided by a pair of errors and keyed by a Grantland two-run double and Reitz two-run single, McDaniel plated six runs to stretch the lead to 10-1 – a lead that was more than enough for Kronick.

The senior allowed just two more baserunners and faced one over the minimum for the next five innings before Austin Fry (Sunbury, Pa./Shamokin Area) got a double play to erase a leadoff single in the ninth and finish out the win.

A Tyler O'Shea (Springfield, Pa./Springfield) two-run single keyed a three-run sixth to push the lead to 13-1.

Windisch had the big hit in the eighth with a two-run single to set the final margin.

Windisch and Grantland finished with three hits each while Valori and O'Shea had two knocks each.

The first game on Saturday begins at 12:30 p.m.

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