ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. — Good Friday was indeed good to the Elizabethtown College baseball team, as the arms of junior Matt Ruth and sophomore Rob Cressman silenced Albright's bats in a Commonwealth Conference doubleheader at Kevin Scott Boyd Stadium. The Blue Jays took game one 6-5 and the nightcap 7-1, earning two more crucial wins in their hunt for the postseason.

Ruth has taken well to his home park, throwing five more innings of strong baseball on Friday. The York, Pa., native allowed just three hits over five innings to pick up his third win of the season. After another stout outing, Ruth now has a 1.09 earned run average in four home starts during the 2011 season. He's also given up only 15 hits in 24.2 innings and struck out 19 at Boyd Stadium. Ruth was locked in from the get-go against the Lions (7-22, 3-12 CC). Two of the hits he gave up came in the third inning and twice he sat down Albright's hitters in order.

E-town (15-15, 8-7 CC) wasted no time giving Ruth a lead, either. Steve Motika, much like he's done all season, hit safely. This time it was a single down the left field line that got the offense started for the Blue Jays. The Kutztown, Pa., product had six hits in Friday's doubleheader, raising his team-leading batting average to a gaudy .434 (46-of-106).

Later in the inning Dillon Tagle doubled to right to bring home Motika and the Jays had a 1-0 lead. That lead would balloon over the third and fourth innings, with E-town scoring twice in each frame. Kyle Gable scored on an error in the third before Motika drove in Andrew Gordon with a double to left center field.

In the fourth Gable hit a sac fly to plate Pat Mulligan, and Gordon singled through the left side to score Ian Smith. Albright scored its only run off of Ruth on a bases loaded walk by Tom Canuso in the fifth, but it was quickly answered by E-town in the bottom half of the inning when Smith singled in pinch-runner Shane Hosler.

Jake Hoffstein registered a 1-2-3 inning in the sixth, but ran into trouble when he came out for the seventh. The sophomore allowed four runs and four hits. Todd Leister came on to try and stop the rally, but the first batter he faced, Rob Mancinelli, singled to drive in two of Hoffstein's runners. Leister would work out of the jam, though, inducing Matt Pannella into a game-ending ground out. Leister was tagged with his third save of the season and second in as many games.

Game two was more of the same for E-town, as Rob Cressman took the hill. Cressman struck out four and gave up six hits in six innings to earn his team-leading fourth win of the season. The Blue Jays offense took care of the rest, scoring at least once in each of the first five innings.

Motika went 3-for-4 with an RBI, giving him hits in 22 of his last 23 games. Now with a nine-game hitting streak, the junior is one game away from having two separate double-figure game hitting streaks in the same season.

Also chipping in offensively was Mulligan, who went 3-for-3 with a trio of RBIs. The three-hit game was Mulligan's first of his career.

There would be no rally for the Lions in game two, however. They were outhit 12-6 and couldn't keep up with the constant offense of the host Blue Jays. Tagle and Ryan Donahue each scored twice for E-town, which won for the fourth straight time, and in turn, swept all three games from Albright.

Senior Greg Katz pitched a scoreless seventh for the Jays, striking out one in the process.

Elizabethtown will take on the Lancaster Barnstormers Monday in an exhibition game at Clipper Magazine Stadium, before ramping up for the final week of the regular season, which includes three home games.