The Dominican University baseball team fell 9-6 to the Gettysburg College Bullets on Tuesday morning at Dodgertown in Vero Beach, Florida.  The loss drops the Stars to 4-5 on the season and an even 2-2 on the team's spring trip to the Florida Coast Spring Training tournament in Fort Pierce, Florida.  Dominican will enjoy an off day on Wednesday before returning to the Lawnwood Athletic Complex on Thursday for a 10:00 a.m. ET game against Washington College.
 
"We had numerous opportunities with guys in scoring position and less than two outs that we squandered," said Steve Hardman, the Stars' head baseball coach.  "We had a lack of execution in just about every aspect of the game. We would do just enough to make the game interesting and then go run and hide."
 
Trevor Fulmer, the Stars' starter on Tuesday, cruised through the first three innings without giving up a hit before running into trouble in the fourth.  After back-to-back singles to start the inning for the Bullets, Fulmer got a fly out and then appeared to escape unscathed with a groundball up the middle that looked to be an easy double play.  However, the ball skipped up and caught Dominican's Ryan Simak in the shoulder at short with everyone safe and the first run of the game coming across.  The Bullets followed with a two-run triple and that runner later scored to put Gettysburg on top, 4-0.
 
Gettysburg added a run in the top of the sixth before the Stars cracked through.  Johnny Condron walked to leadoff the inning and after a fly out, went first to third on an errant throw on a pickoff.  Nick Roeper promptly doubled to bring around Condron.  The Stars managed a pinch-hit single in the frame from Jake Polonus but the rally stalled there, stranding two runners.
 
After another single run crossed for Gettysburg in the top of the seventh, Dominican rallied for two runs in the bottom of the frame to cut the lead down to 6-3.  Simak was hit by pitch to start the inning before JP Escamilla singled.  The Bullets then hit Frankie Sessa to load the bases for Condron.  After a pitching change, Condron walked to force in Simak.  Brandon Diedrich was then hit by a pitch to bring in Tyler Trojan who was running for Escamilla.  After a second pitching change of the inning and nobody out, the Stars' rally came to a halt with three strikeouts.
 
Gettysburg got both of those runs back in the top of the eighth before the Stars rallied again in the bottom of the inning, this time for three runs, all after two were out. Trojan walked and Sessa singled before Condron lined a triple to deep right and then scored when Diedrich doubled to right-center.  However, the Stars again left the tying run at the plate and another runner on the base paths.
 
In total the Stars stranded 12 runners and struck out nine times.
 
Fulmer was tagged with the loss, surrendering five runs on eight hits and two walks while striking out three over 5.1 innings of work.
 
Offensively, the Stars managed ten hits.  Sessa, Roeper and Thomas Ross picked up two apiece, including a double each for Roeper and Ross, while Condron raised his team-best batting average to .360, going 1-for-2 with three walks and three driven in.  Together, Dominican's 3-4-5-6 hitters, Sessa-Condron-Diedrich-Roeper, went 6-for-15 with six RBIs and three extra-base hits.