Mike Christy vs. Franklin & Marshall 3/23/17
Wyatt Eaton
5
Winner Franklin & Marshall FMC 11-5
3
Elizabethtown ETOWN 7-6
Winner
Franklin & Marshall FMC
11-5
5
Final
3
Elizabethtown ETOWN
7-6
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Franklin & Marshall FMC 0 1 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 5 12 0
Elizabethtown ETOWN 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 3 4 1

W: Sam Ackerman (1-0) L: Garvey, Mike (1-1) S: Danny Blugis (1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Christy drives in two, Blue Jays drop home opener to F&M

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. -- Sophomore Mike Christy pulled Elizabethtown within two runs with his two-out, two-run single in the bottom of the eighth inning, but Franklin & Marshall held on for a 5-3 win in the Blue Jays' home opener Thursday afternoon.

Franklin & Marshall broke a 1-1 deadlock with three runs in the top of the fifth. Jimmy Whelan's sacrifice fly put the visitors ahead for good and Diplomats' (11-5) RBI leader David Iacobucci added a pair of insurance runs with a double into the left field corner.

For much of the afternoon, E-town (7-6) struggled to put anything together against F&M's pitchers. Starter Sam Ackerman retired the first 11 Blue Jays he faced without issue before Colby Smith's two-out single in the bottom of the fourth.

Smith's hit sparked a string of three straight singles by the Blue Jays. The last of those, from senior shortstop Nick Lorenz, drove home Smith to tie the game at one.

The Diplomats answered with a three-run fifth and later increased their lead to 5-1 on another Iacobucci RBI double in the top of the seventh.

Christy, who came into Thursday batting .342 on the season, knocked a Kurt Elmer 2-2 offering into right field to score Smith and Andrew Coleman to make it a 5-3 game in the eighth.

Elizabethtown could get no closer. Luke Bengel got Lorenz to fly out to center and Danny Blugis struck out two in a perfect ninth to earn his first save of the year.

Ackerman gave up three hits and one run over five innings to pick up the win. Mike Garvey went six innings for the Jays, allowing four runs on seven hits and striking out three.

Nate Baxter and Josh Kwak each threw a scoreless innings for the hosts.

Franklin & Marshall limited E-town to four hits on the afternoon. Christy had two, Smith one and Lorenz one. Smith also walked twice.

After having its Landmark series against Drew postponed last weekend due to snow, the Blue Jays will finally get to open league play this weekend against Moravian.

Saturday's doubleheader, scheduled to be played at Moravian, has been relocated to Elizabethtown with a 1 p.m. first pitch. The Blue Jays will serve as the road team in both games, despite playing on their home field.
 
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