Anthony Lippy vs. Franklin & Marshall 3/23/17
Wyatt Eaton
2
Elizabethtown ETOWN 16-10, 5-4 Landmark
5
Winner Moravian MOR 13-17, 8-6 Landmark
Elizabethtown ETOWN
16-10, 5-4 Landmark
2
Final
5
Moravian MOR
13-17, 8-6 Landmark
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Elizabethtown ETOWN 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 0
Moravian MOR 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 3 X 5 7 2

W: Nicholas Mazzella (2-2) L: Lippy, Anthony (2-2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Blue Jays done in by three-run eighth at Moravian

BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- Junior pitcher Anthony Lippy recorded a career-high eight strikeouts and was one out away from escaping from the eighth-inning before Moravian scored three times to steal Monday afternoon's makeup game, 5-2.

Lippy, whose previous single-game high for strikeouts was five, faced the minimum through three perfect innings and struck out the side in the third.

Nick Lorenz's lead-off double in the second and Tom Armstrong's RBI groundout gave the Blue Jays (16-10, 5-4 Landmark) an early lead. They doubled it in the fourth when Richy Masciarelli's infield single allowed the freshman first baseman, Armstrong, to race home.

Armstrong's first career extra-base hit, a one-out double to right field two batters earlier, set him up in scoring position. He went to third on Greyhound pitcher John Wiedmayer's wild pitch.

Moravian (13-17, 8-6) slowed chipped away, scoring a run in the bottom of the fourth on an Evan Kulig RBI single. Austin Markowski knocked in Anthony Gaetaniello with a double to center in the sixth.

Lippy had never gone more than seven innings in a start during his career, but having only allowed four hits entering the eighth, the ball was his.

The Hanover native struck out pinch-hitter Chase Rogers to start the inning and got Tim Heard on a grounder to Lorenz. Lippy would run into trouble as the order turned over, however.

Gaetaniello singled, stole second and went to third on Matt Stalter's single. Markowski pulled the first pitch he saw down the left field line for a two-run go-ahead double and Kulig hit his second RBI single of the afternoon to push the Hounds in front, 5-2, and end Lippy's day.

Kyle Fackler's 190th career hit was all the Jays could muster in the ninth. No Elizabethtown player had more than one hit against the duo of Wiedmayer and Nicholas Mazzella.

Widemayer struck out five and allowed three hits in four innings. Mazzella also registered five strikeouts and held the Jays to two hits in five innings of relief to earn the win.

Moravian's 5-9 hitters were a combined 0 for 16, but the hosts 1-4 spots in the lineup picked up the slack going 7 for 14 with all five runs and RBIs. Markowski was 2 for 4 with three RBIs and Kulig 2 for 4 with two RBIs. Gaetaniello scored three times.

Elizabethtown will play its second of five straight road games this Thursday at Messiah. Game time is 4 p.m.
 
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