Aaron Rahn at Lebanon Valley 3/16/16
12
Winner Elizabethtown ETOWN 19-15, 10-6 Landmark
0
Drew DREW 15-19, 8-8 Landmark
Winner
Elizabethtown ETOWN
19-15, 10-6 Landmark
12
Final
0
Drew DREW
15-19, 8-8 Landmark
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Elizabethtown ETOWN 0 0 4 3 1 2 2 12 17 0
Drew DREW 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1

W: Elwell, Kevin (8-1) L: Dylan Baxter (3-3)

4
Winner Elizabethtown ETOWN 20-15, 11-6 Landmark
1
Drew DREW 15-20, 8-9 Landmark
Winner
Elizabethtown ETOWN
20-15, 11-6 Landmark
4
Final
1
Drew DREW
15-20, 8-9 Landmark
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Elizabethtown ETOWN 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 4 7 0
Drew DREW 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 1

W: Lippy, Anthony (4-3) L: Patrick Boyle (3-4)

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Game Recap: Baseball |

Blue Jays silence Drew

MADISON, N.J. – The Elizabethtown College baseball team controls its postseason destiny and will continue to do so with victories. The Blue Jays got two of them Saturday at Drew, as Kevin Elwell and Anthony Lippy twirled complete games to send E-town past the Rangers 12-0 and 4-1.

Kyle Fackler recorded hits in each half of the doubleheader, extending his hitting streak to 21 games. It's the program's first 20+ game hitting streak since digital statistics started being kept in 2002.

GAME 1
Elizabethtown 12, Drew 0

Brian Portillo and Nick Lorenz each homered, while Fackler and Aaron Rahn drove in two runs apiece in a 12-0 romp for the Blue Jays (20-15, 11-6 Landmark) in game one.

Portillo was 3-for-4 and tied a career-high with his second five-RBI game of the season in support of starting pitcher Kevin Elwell. Elwell struck out four and limited the Rangers (15-20, 8-9) to four hits for his eighth win of the season.

Elwell, a junior right-hander from Clarks Summit, Pa., improved to 6-0 against Landmark opponents with a 19:6 strikeout to walk ratio and 2.61 earned run average this season. Elwell has gone at least five innings in all six league starts and has five quality starts during that time.

The Blue Jays went hitless in the first and second innings, but opened up a 7-0 lead with four in the third and three in the fourth.

Portillo broke the ice with the first of his three run-scoring hits, stroking a two-run single to center that scored Frank Ragozzino and Fackler. Senior Aaron Rahn followed with a single that plated Colby Smith.

In the fourth, Dylan Manning, Fackler and Portillo recorded RBI singles ahead of Rahn's RBI double.

Elizabethtown scored runs in each inning from the third onward. Portillo cracked his second home run of the year off Paul Roth in the top of the sixth, and Lorenz led off the seventh by taking Roth deep again for an 11-0 lead.

Fackler's hit streak reached 20 games on a third inning single to left center. The junior second baseman from Harrisburg was 2-for-3 with a pair of RBIs and runs scored.

Smith went 2-for-3 and scored three runs. Ragozzino was 2-for-4 with two runs scored and Lorenz 2-for-2.

Two of Drew's four hits against Elwell came in the first inning. E-town's ace put the Rangers down in order in the second, fourth and sixth innings. All four of the home team's hits were singles.

Dylan Baxter took the loss with six runs (five earned) allowed on seven hits in 3.1 innings. Three Ranger relievers also gave up runs.

GAME 2
Elizabethtown 4, Drew 1

Aaron Rahn broke a 1-1 tie with a two-run single in the top of the sixth and Anthony Lippy threw a complete game, seven-hitter to push the Blue Jays to the sweep.

Kyle Fackler wasted little time adding another game to his hitting streak with a lead-off double. Two batters later, Colby Smith put the Blue and Gray in front, 1-0, with a double to the gap in right center.

Smith's double was his sixth of the season and he's now up to 36 RBIs for the spring.

Drew got the run back in the bottom of the first on a Mike Miraglia single to center, but neither team could put runs on the board over the next four innings.

E-town came close in the second, however. Ryan Shirk and Frank Ragozzino led off the inning with back-to-back singles and Nick Lorenz reached on an error to load the bases.

Ranger pitcher Patrick Boyle got Fackler to hit one right back to him for a rare 1-2-3 double play, before striking out Richy Masciarelli to alleviate the threat.

The nightcap featured just 14 hits between the two teams, seven for each side.

Rahn made a winner of Lippy when his single in the top of the sixth brought home Smith and Portillo. Ragozzino added some insurance by singling home Rahn.

Ragozzino, who was 2-for-3 in game two, now has an eight-game hitting streak of his own and has multi-hit games in three straight going back to Thursday's non-conference game against York.

Rahn's lone hit in game two gave him his first career 40-hit season and he's completely obliterated his former career-high of 10 RBIs in a season with 33 in 2016. The Ickesburg, Pa., native is batting a scorching .364 (40-for-110), over 80 points better than the .282 he hit last season.

Lippy struck out five for the second straight start and is now 3-2 in five starts against conference opponents.

Bobby Miskura and Tommy Broyles finished with two hits apiece for the Rangers.

Saturday's sweep gave Elizabethtown exactly 20 wins on the season. The Blue Jays have 24 20-win seasons since 1983 and have reached the mark two years running.

UP NEXT
Elizabethtown looks to sweep the weekend and clinch a spot in the Landmark Conference Championships with a win tomorrow afternoon at Drew. First pitch is scheduled for noon.
 
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Players Mentioned

Kevin Elwell

#35 Kevin Elwell

RHP
6' 0"
Junior
R/R
Kyle Fackler

#3 Kyle Fackler

2B
5' 11"
Junior
L/R
Anthony Lippy

#17 Anthony Lippy

RHP
5' 10"
Sophomore
R/R
Nick Lorenz

#12 Nick Lorenz

SS/3B
6' 1"
Sophomore
R/R
Dylan Manning

#25 Dylan Manning

OF/RHP
6' 4"
Senior
L/R
Richy Masciarelli

#2 Richy Masciarelli

OF/DH/RHP
5' 7"
Junior
R/R
Brian Portillo

#33 Brian Portillo

1B/OF
5' 11"
Junior
R/R
Frank Ragozzino

#11 Frank Ragozzino

C
6' 0"
Junior
R/R
Aaron Rahn

#19 Aaron Rahn

OF
6' 0"
Senior
R/R
Ryan Shirk

#6 Ryan Shirk

INF
5' 11"
Senior
R/R

Players Mentioned

Kevin Elwell

#35 Kevin Elwell

6' 0"
Junior
R/R
RHP
Kyle Fackler

#3 Kyle Fackler

5' 11"
Junior
L/R
2B
Anthony Lippy

#17 Anthony Lippy

5' 10"
Sophomore
R/R
RHP
Nick Lorenz

#12 Nick Lorenz

6' 1"
Sophomore
R/R
SS/3B
Dylan Manning

#25 Dylan Manning

6' 4"
Senior
L/R
OF/RHP
Richy Masciarelli

#2 Richy Masciarelli

5' 7"
Junior
R/R
OF/DH/RHP
Brian Portillo

#33 Brian Portillo

5' 11"
Junior
R/R
1B/OF
Frank Ragozzino

#11 Frank Ragozzino

6' 0"
Junior
R/R
C
Aaron Rahn

#19 Aaron Rahn

6' 0"
Senior
R/R
OF
Ryan Shirk

#6 Ryan Shirk

5' 11"
Senior
R/R
INF