STEVENSON, Md. — Stevenson scored all nine of its runs from the fifth inning on, coming from behind to defeat Elizabethtown baseball 9-3 Wednesday afternoon at Park Field. The Jays, which fell for the sixth game in a row, were held to three hits by their soon-to-be Commonwealth Conference foes.
The Blue Jays (15-13) took their only lead of the game in the third inning by scoring a pair of unearned runs.
Jon Bacher singled to start the inning and went all the way to third when Mustangs' (18-14-2) pitcher Drew Liebert misplayed a ball off the bat of
Ian Smith.
Bacher eventually would be retired at the plate, but E-town still found a way to produce the first runs of the game later in the frame. Consecutive errors by the entire left side of Stevenson's infield with
Steve Motika at bat gave Smith and
Tyler Weary passes home for the 2-0 lead.
Kristopher Davis held the Mustangs scoreless in each of the first four innings, but in the fifth four singles turned into three Stevenson runs. First baseman Justin Anderson hooked a pitch into left field for two RBIs, but it was his sixth inning bomb to right that chased Davis and opened up SU's gap to 7-2.
Stevenson ran into trouble in the field again in the eighth, and the Blue Jays added their third run. Bacher's ground out to first scored
Luke Gatti, who had singled earlier in the inning.
E-town only recorded three hits in the game, all coming against Liebert during his eight inning stint on the hill. Liebert got the win to improve to 7-2. He walked three and struck out four. None of the three runs Elizabethtown scored were earned.
Davis (2-2) threw well early, but finished with a 5.2 inning line of 10 hits allowed and seven earned runs. The righty from Doylestown missed a pair of bats for two strikeouts.
Rob Cressman went through four batters without allowing a hit and
Todd Leister pitched the eighth for the Blue and Gray.
SU's Anderson led all hitters with three hits and five RBIs. Heath Johnson came off the bench to go 2-for-2 with three runs scored and a run batted in for the 'Stangs. Shortstop Chris DeFeo put some crooked numbers on his line score as well. DeFeo had two hits and two runs in four trips to the plate.
Kevin Berkheiser joined Bacher and Gatti as the only E-town players with hits. The Jays were held to five hits or less for the third time in the last five games. It's been a tough stretch of games for EC, which had an eight-game streak of double figure hit totals from March 23-April 1.
E-town gets back into Commonwealth Conference play Friday afternoon. Albright will visit Kevin Scott Boyd Stadium for a nine-inning game. First pitch is scheduled for 3:30 p.m.