Anthony Knight vs. Albright 4/10/17
Dan Gittis
1
Albright ALB 6-18
10
Winner Elizabethtown ETOWN 13-8
Albright ALB
6-18
1
Final
10
Elizabethtown ETOWN
13-8
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Albright ALB 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 3
Elizabethtown ETOWN 2 3 1 3 1 0 0 0 X 10 12 0

W: Elwell, Kevin (5-1) L: Lewis, Drew (0-2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Jays batter Albright 10-1

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. -- Elizabethtown struck for all of its runs in the first five innings to blast Albright, 10-1, in a non-conference game at Kevin Scott Boyd Stadium, Monday afternoon.

Mike Christy extended his hitting streak to 12 games and drove in a game-high three runs and Kyle Fackler continued his assault on the ball with three more hits, giving him 11 in his last 15 at-bats.

The Jays jumped on Albright starter Drew Lewis early, scoring twice in the bottom of the first. Elizabethtown's first three batters --Fackler, Colby Smith and Christy-- all singled. Christy's brought home Fackler with the game's first run.

Elizabethtown's (13-8) lead increased to 2-0 when Smith raced home as Lions' third baseman Tanner Brescancine threw wide of the bag at first trying to get Nick Bein for what would have been the final out of the inning.

Kevin Elwell, drawing the rare non-conference start with the Blue Jays coming off their Landmark Conference open weekend, allowed a Joe Suppa RBI single in the second, but kept Albright off the board the rest of the way in his five innings of work. Elwell gave up eight hits and struck out two, but allowed one run or less for the third time in six starts this season to improve to 5-1.

The victory was also No. 23 in Elwell's career, placing him one back of Sam Heaps for second most in program history and three off Bob Lindsey's school record of 26, which have stood since 1998.

With things going relatively smoothly on the bump for E-town, its hitters took over.

James Kantner and Christy drove home runs as the Blue and Gray answered Albright's run with three in the bottom half of the second inning.

Bein scored on a balk in the third, while Christy and Frank Ragozzino collected RBIs in the Jays' 3-run fourth to open a 9-1 lead.

Elizabethtown capped the scoring in the fifth with an RBI fielder's choice from Nick Lorenz that plated Kantner.

Mike Garvey, Andrew Brndjar and Ben Thorpe were outstanding out of the pen for the hosts on Monday. The trio combined to allow just one hit over four innings. Garvey struck out two in two innings and Thorpe, making his E-town debut, fanned two more in firing a perfect ninth.

Lewis dropped to 0-2 on the year with the loss. He served up six runs, four of which were earned, on seven hits in three innings. Logan Adams was unable to stop the bleeding, giving up four more runs (two earned) in his only inning of relief. Daron Pijanowski and Tyler Keller fared better, however, combining to hold the Blue Jays off the board after Adams allowed the only run in the fifth.

Fackler nearly registered his third consecutive four-hit game. The senior from Harrisburg finished 3 for 3 with a walk and two runs scored. Fackler bumped his career hit total to 181, 19 shy of tying Brad Duppstadt's school record of 200, and is also just 21 runs away from matching Adam Sheibley's program record of 162. He's now hitting a robust .456 (36 of 79) for the year.

Christy and Smith were each 2 for 4, with Smith scoring a pair of runs. Ragozzino was 2 for 3 and Richy Masciarelli had the only extra base hit --a double-- in the Blue Jays' 12-hit attack.

For Albright (6-18), which dropped its 13th game in a row, Noah Beebe, Jimmy Gentry and Suppa had two hits apiece.

Elizabethtown is back on its home diamond tomorrow for another non-conference game. The Blue Jays welcome Dickinson for a 4 p.m. first pitch.
 
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