ANNVILLE, Pa. — Elizabethtown College needed one win in its Commonwealth Conference baseball doubleheader at Lebanon Valley Saturday afternoon, and the Blue Jays waited until the very last minute to get it. Using a complete game four-hitter from senior Wayne Leonard in game two, E-town took a 6-1 victory to earn a split and a spot in the postseason for the 13th straight season. Lebanon Valley had pushed E-town to the brink with a 3-1 victory in the opener.

Steve Motika had two runs on two doubles and drove in three to spark the Blue Jays (17-17, 10-8 CC) in its most crucial game of the season to date. With hits in both ends of the doubleheader, Motika ran his team-high batting average to .421 and made it hits in 25 of his last 26 games. One beneficiary to Motika's skills at the plate was catcher Dillon Tagle. Hitting in the clean-up spot right behind Motika, Tagle had two hits of his own and drove in two runs.

Luckily for the Blue Jays, they ran away in game two. E-town scored six unanswered runs, plating two in the first, three in the fourth and one in the sixth to build a sizeable lead. Leonard made sure the LVC bats would not be heard from and the Flying Dutchmen (17-19, 8-10 CC) got only a seventh inning RBI single from Andrew Germann to breakup Leonard's shutout.

The Newark, Del., native struck out three to improve to 4-2 on the season. His E-town teammates were able to take advantage of LVC starter Dustin Deibert, who didn't have his best stuff Saturday. Deibert walked seven and struck out four while allowing five earned runs in his second defeat this year. Leonard did not allow more than one hit to any LVC batter.

Lebanon Valley did throw a scare into the Jays though, as an inconsistent pitching performance was certainly not their problem in game one. Nate Blough (5-3) outdueled Elizabethtown's Rob Cressman (4-3) to help the Flying Dutchmen stay alive in their bid for the Commonwealth Conference's final playoff spot. E-town, which used up its fair share of dramatics in Friday's 4-3 victory over LVC at Kevin Scott Boyd Stadium, jumped out to a 1-0 lead on Motika's RBI single in the top of the first that scored Andrew Gordon.

Blough would be in command from there, though. Like Leonard in game two for E-town, Blough gave up just four hits in a complete game, striking out five and walking three. Cressman gave Cliff Smith's ballclub a solid outing by scattering eight hits. Not known for overpowering hitters, Cressman got 10 ground outs and four fly outs from LVC batters Saturday. He walked two and struck out one.

LVC got all of its runs in the fourth and fifth innings. The home side knotted things at one with a Jordan Higgins RBI groundout and took the lead for good on a two-out two-run single by Aaron Mills. Blough stood his ground over the sixth and seventh by allowing only a Tagle walk in the two frames.

As the Commonwealth Conference's No. 4 seed in next weekend's conference tournament, Elizabethtown will take on top-seeded Alvernia in its first game at Owls Field in Spring Township, Pa. (formerly West Lawn). The Crusaders are ranked 11th nationally and swept the Jays in three regular season meetings. That doesn't tell the whole, story, however. E-town held a lead late in each of the three contests (two at Alvernia, one at home), before falling 5-4 in each, including a 14-inning marathon on Apr. 10.