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Box Score 2 BALTIMORE, Md. – McDaniel took a 3-0 lead after three innings in the opening game at the 2016 Centennial Conference baseball tournament on Saturday before falling in the second elimination game later in the day at Johns Hopkins.
The third-seeded Green Terror (31-10) topped fourth-seeded Gettysburg 4-1 in the day's first elimination game before top-seeded Johns Hopkins eliminated McDaniel with a 5-0 victory to advance to Sunday's championship for a rematch with Haverford.
Marty Windisch (Manchester, Md./Manchester Valley) led McDaniel in the first game, going the distance on the mound with nine strikeouts to pick up the Green Terror's first-ever tournament victory.
Against the Bullets (24-17-1), Nick Valori (Sewell, N.J./Washington Twp.) was hit by a pitch in the second inning before scoring on an Eric Grantland (Pasadena, Md./Northeast) double for a 1-0 lead.
Windisch was hit by a pitch to lead off the third before Cameron Bahr (Southampton, N.J./Seneca) singled. After a sacrifice put both runners in scoring position, Valori laced a single through the left side to make it a 3-0 game.
A Windisch leadoff home run to left field stretched the lead to 4-0 in the fifth.
Singles by Will Anderson and Henry Klimowicz coupled with a two-out error accounted for an unearned Gettysburg run in the eighth.
Bahr rapped out three hits in the game while Grantland added two.
Against the Blue Jays (28-12-1), Joe Conlon drew a walk to lead off the third before a one-out Thomas Mee home run staked the hosts to a 2-0 lead.
A pair of walks and a Brian Lin two-run single keyed a three-run sixth to set the final margin.
Jacob Enterlin and Preston Betz combined for a one-hitter. A Sean Sivo (Ellicott City, Md./Howard) two-out double in the sixth was the lone knock for McDaniel.
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