Colby Smith vs. Moravian 4/3/16
4
Kenyon KEN 0-3
8
Winner Elizabethtown ETOWN 5-1
Kenyon KEN
0-3
4
Final
8
Elizabethtown ETOWN
5-1
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Kenyon KEN 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 9 1
Elizabethtown ETOWN 0 2 0 5 1 0 X 8 9 1

W: Stinar, Braden (2-1) L: Connor Farrell (0-1)

7
Winner Elizabethtown ETOWN 6-1
4
Kenyon KEN 0-4
Winner
Elizabethtown ETOWN
6-1
7
Final
4
Kenyon KEN
0-4
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E
Elizabethtown ETOWN 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 7 12 2
Kenyon KEN 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 10 6

W: Kwak, Josh (1-0) L: Eric DelRosso (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Smith stars in Blue Jays' sweep of Kenyon

FORT PIERCE, Fla. -- Colby Smith recorded just the third five-hit game for Elizabethtown in the last 10 years and the Blue Jays ran their winning streak to four games with a sweep of Kenyon Monday.

GAME 1
Elizabethtown 8, Kenyon 4

E-town fell behind 4-0 after a half inning, but sophomore pitcher Braden Stinar came on to throw four scoreless innings and the Blue Jays chipped away with two in the second before taking control with a five-run fourth.

Nick Lorenz and Anthony Cameron reached base to start the second and the Blue Jays halved Kenyon's lead on James Kantner's RBI groundout and a Kyle Fackler double. Fackler provided his three hits and later collected his third straight multi-hit game in the nightcap.

Elizabethtown continued to grind against Lords' starter Connor Farrell and the dam finally broke in the fourth. Again, it was early baserunners that paved the way for the Blue Jays' success.

Fackler drove in his second run of the day with a single to left to cut Kenyon's lead to 4-3 and Richy Masciarelli drove home Kantner with the tying run a batter later. Smith then stepped in and put down a squeeze to score Fackler for E-town's first lead of the game.

Lorenz punched a two-run single to center giving the Jays a 7-4 advantage before the inning came to a close.

Smith tacked on one more run in the fifth, singling home Kantner, and E-town's pitchers took care of the rest. Stinar allowed only four hits and struck out three in his four innings of work. Sophomore Nate Baxter didn't give up a hit over the final two innings.

Fackler went 3 for 4 with two RBIs and Smith also had two RBIs while going 2 for 3. Kenyon, which matched E-town with nine hits, left 10 runners on base.

GAME 2
Elizabethtown 7, Kenyon 4 (F/10)

Colby Smith's fifth hit of game two padded E-town's lead as the Blue Jays broke a 4-4 tie with three runs in the 10th to wrap up the sweep.

Smith registered E-town's first five-hit game since Luke Gatti in 2015 and drove in four. The Middlesex, New Jersey, native put the Blue and Gray on the board in the top of the third with a two-run double to left that scored Fackler and Masciarelli.

The two teams would twice trade runs before the Blue Jays (6-1) finally closed it out in extras.

Phillip Nam answered Smith's big hit with a 2-RBI double of his own in the bottom of the third for Kenyon (0-4). In the fourth, Kantner and Fackler hit RBI singles for the Blue Jays, but Jake Berry got one back on a sac fly and Nam tied it, 4-4, with a single in the fifth.

Jared Witner, who came into Monday with two scoreless relief appearances, had another impressive showing, this time in his first collegiate start. Witner allowed four runs (two earned) on eight hits and struck out five in seven strong innings. Josh Kwak kept the Kenyon hitters off balance in three scoreless innings to earn the win.

Smith's four RBI's tied a career-high and his five hits were a new career standard after seven three-hit games. Fackler was 2 for 4 with a pair of runs, two walks and an RBI, and Kantner also had two hits.

Matt von Roemer led Kenyon with four hits and two runs scored, while Nam finished with three RBIs.

ON DECK
Elizabethtown faces Wilkes in a single, nine-inning game tomorrow at 11 a.m.
 
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