Chuck Probst Tabbed for All-Centennial Team
Bullets Garner Honorable Mention
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LANCASTER – Senior outfielder Chuck Probst (North Bend, Pa./Bucktail) and sophomore shortstop Joe Giovinco (Stirling, N.J./Seton Hall Prep) of the Gettysburg College baseball team have been named to the All-Centennial Conference Team, it was announced Tuesday.
Probst received All-Centennial Conference honors for the second year while Giovinco collected his first career all-conference award. Both were named All-CC Honorable Mention.
In addition, senior Logan Sneed (Newtown, Pa./Germantown Academy) was Gettysburg’s representative on the Centennial Conference Baseball All-Sportsmanship Team. Sneed batted .282 for the season and in his last game as a Bullet, tied the school record for hits in a game when he finished 6-for-6 in a win over Messiah.
A First Team All-Centennial Conference selection last year, Probst batted .333 this past season and led the team in numerous offensive categories, including slugging percentage (.489), runs scored (29), hits (45), doubles (12), triples (three), and total bases (66). He also belted one home run and stole six bases. Defensively, he fired in three outfield assists and committed just one error.
In one of the top outings of his career, Probst finished 8-for-9 with four doubles and seven RBIs in a doubleheader sweep of Norwich University on the final day of the team’s Spring Break trip to Florida. He concluded his career ranked among the top-10 in school history in numerous categories, including doubles (tied for ninth, 31), triples (seventh, 12), home runs (tied for eighth, 8), and total bases (ninth, 225).
Giovinco played in started 30 games for the season and finished as the team’s leading hitter, batting .349. He was even better in Centennial Conference play, hitting a conference-best .458 over 14 games. Giovinco closed the year on a flurry, hitting .512 (22-for-43) over a season-ending 12-game hitting streak. In a tremendous final week of the season, he tied the school record for hits in a game when he went 5-for-5 at McDaniel, and three days later he belted a go-ahead three-run homer in the seventh inning of a 6-4 victory at Haverford. He also posted four additional three-hit games for the year.
Giovinco finished among the team leaders in numerous additional categories, including on-base percentage (second, .402), runs scored (tied for third, 21), hits (tied for third, 37), and doubles (tied for third, 6).
Gettysburg finished the season 13-23 and 6-12 in the Centennial Conference.
