CARLISLE, Pa. – Freshman Eric Brown turned in an outstanding collegiate debut, twirling a four-hit shutout to lead the 29th-ranked Gettysburg College baseball team to a 4-0 victory at Dickinson College in a Centennial Conference tilt Wednesday afternoon.
 
The conference-leading Bullets (20-3, 6-0 CC), who yesterday received their first national ranking in 14 years, pushed their school-record winning streak to 17 games, three more than the previous standard.
 
Brown, who tossed Gettysburg's first complete-game shutout of the season, allowed just one walk and struck out three. He worked out of jams in the first and sixth innings but retired 11 consecutive batters in the middle of the game and the final 11 batters he faced. Brown was backed by an excellent defensive performance, as the Bullet infield recorded 18 ground ball outs without committing an error.
 
Junior Scott Zanghellini finished 2-for-3 at the plate for the Bullets and extended his hitting streak to 16.
 
Dickinson lost for just the fifth time this season, dropping to 16-5 and 2-3 in conference play.
 
The Red Devils threatened in the bottom of the first, but with runners on first and second Brown induced an inning-ending 4-6-3 double play. The Bullets also turned a 6-3 twin killing in the second.
 
After breezing through the middle innings, Brown faced a challenge again in the sixth, when a leadoff single and one-out double put runners on second and third with the team's No. 2 batter coming to the plate. But he escaped with a pair of groundouts and was perfect the rest of the way.
 
The Bullets showed discipline at the plate in the early going, drawing four walks through the first three innings against starter Jimmy Robertson. However, they were unable to push across a run during the stretch, when they left four runners on base.
 
Robertson's control issues continued in the fourth when he hit senior Tommy LeNoir, who was leading off. Zanghellini singled before senior Mike Elisio bunted the runners over. Junior Mike Kielbasa then drew a walk, prompting a pitching change before senior Cam MacDonald greeted reliever Christian Acosta with an RBI-single, providing Brown with all the offense he would need. Zanghellini would score on a wild pitch to make it 2-0.
 
The Bullets added single runs in the fifth and sixth. LeNoir doubled and scored on a Zanghellini single in the fifth, and the Orange and Blue tacked on an unearned run in the sixth when Kielbasa doubled leading off and scored on a two-out error by the shortstop.
 
Robertson (0-3) suffered the loss, allowing two runs on one hit and five walks.