ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. — Steve Motika's walk-off fielder's choice in game two allowed the Elizabethtown College baseball team to breathe a sigh of relief Sunday afternoon. The grounder to short was thrown into right field, allowing pinch runner Mike Stobbe to score the winning run in a 5-4 nailbiter against Penn State Harrisburg. The Blue Jays also scored five runs in game one (5-1) to sweep the twinbill at Kevin Scott Boyd Stadium and move to 9-3 on the season.

What started as a gloomy, overcast afternoon ended in the bright sunlight. The weather paralleled E-town's game two, in which it trailed 3-1 entering the bottom of the fifth and then saw a 4-3 lead slip away in the top of the sixth.

Swiping bases at a rapid rate this season, Tyler Weary stole both second and third in the bottom of the first inning after a lead-off single. Motika drove him in with an RBI groundout for his fourth RBI of the year.

Elizabethtown's Kristopher Davis, strong in his first two career outings (a start and a relief appearance), got the ball for his second start in Sunday's second game. The first three innings were a breeze for the freshman righty, as he allowed just two hits. The Nittany Lions dug in and found a way to make Davis labor in the fourth inning. Designated hitter Isaac Polinsky walked and then scored from first on Cole Nye's double down the right field line that rolled all the way into the PSU Harrisburg (4-12) bullpen.

RBI singles from Matt Ebersole and Dean Kanganis made it a three-run inning for the visitors, their largest single-inning output of the afternoon.

Elizabethtown said 'thank you very much' in taking it's one-run lead back with a three-run, four-hit inning in the fifth. Pat Mulligan singled to left and Kevin Berkheiser roped a shot to center to put the Jays' first two batters of the inning on base. Jon Bacher, leading the team with a .583 batting average after going 3-for-5 in the doubleheader, then sacrificed both runners along.

Third baseman Ian Smith, trying to work himself into some more at-bats, helped his cause with a one-out double to the left center field gap that scored Mulligan and Berkheiser to tie the game at three. Kyle Gable later scored Smith with a single.

Not even a half inning after Elizabethtown had regained a 4-3 lead, PSU Harrisburg put another run on the board to knot things at four. Davis left after 5.1 innings, giving up four runs, walking two and striking out three. Mark Minisce (2-0) picked Davis up late, retiring the last five Nittany Lion batters of the game in order.

Jeff Bell turned the ball over to Daniel Samick in the bottom of the seventh for PSU, but it was Bacher throwing a wrench into the reliever's plans. He doubled to almost the exact same spot as Nye did earlier in the game to put E-town in great position for its third win of the weekend.

With Bacher's mission complete, Alex Holbert entered as a pinch runner. Smith then singled to center field and Weary drew an intentional walk to load the bases. Gable had a chance to end it, as the Lions played five guys on the infield. The visitors' plan worked, though, as they retired Holbert on a force at the plate for the first out.

Motika's routine groundball to shortstop John Cataldo had the makings of a double play, but Cataldo's throw to get Gable at second missed the mark and Stobbe easily trotted home.

The tight knit back-and-forth counters were not necessary in game one as senior right hander Rob Cressman limited the Nittany Lions to one run on seven hits in a complete game win. Cressman improved to 2-1 on the season with his second straight victory after opening the season with a tough luck loss against La Roche.

E-town frustrated winless PSU starter Chris Sabol (0-5) by prolonging at-bats. Sabol gave consecutive hits to Gable, Matt Reade and Dillon Tagle before walking Mulligan on five pitches to score Gable with the game's first run. The damage could have been much worse for Sabol, but he was able to get Berkheiser to ground into a 6-4-3 double play.

Another walk, this one to Tagle in the fourth, proved costly yet again for PSU Harrisburg. Mulligan's sacrifice bunt put Tagle in scoring position and Berkheiser plated him on a single up the middle. Bacher, who was 2-for-3 with a pair of RBIs in game one, mashed the second pitch he saw from Sabol into left center for a single that scored Berkheiser.

The Blue Jays added one run on one hit in both the fifth and sixth innings. The Lions were led by a 2-for-3 game from Dalton Trolinger, who knocked in the team's only run on a double off the left field wall in the fifth.

Elizabethtown's next win will put it over halfway to last year's 19-win total. The Blue Jays' team earned run average currently sits at a healthy 2.47, and the team is making the most of its opportunities. Two hitters, Berkheiser and Motika, share the team lead with just five RBIs each, but the Jays have outscored their opponents 42-29 and won nine of their first 12 contests.

Centennial Conference foe Gettysburg hosts E-town Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. The Jays open conference play next weekend against Arcadia. The Blue and Gray will be home for a nine-inning game on Friday afternoon beginning at 3:30 p.m., and then travel to Glenside for two seven-inning games Saturday.