Anthony Lippy vs. Juniata 4/30/17
Dan Gittis
3
Penn State Behrend BEH 0-3
5
Winner Elizabethtown ETOWN 1-1
Penn State Behrend BEH
0-3
3
Final
5
Elizabethtown ETOWN
1-1
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Penn State Behrend BEH 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 6 4
Elizabethtown ETOWN 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 X 5 7 1

W: Lippy, Anthony (1-1) L: Jack Herzing (0-2) S: Stinar, Braden (1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Lippy, Jays shut down Behrend

FORT PIERCE, Fla. -- Senior right-hander Anthony Lippy silenced Penn State Behrend's bats for seven innings and Elizabethtown scraped together some late runs to win its first of seven Spring Break games, 5-3, Sunday afternoon.

Hits were hard to come by for both teams. Colby Smith, Derek Manning and Riley McGinley produced singles over the first three innings, but the Blue Jays could not turn them into runs. Lippy, meanwhile, was masterful in keeping the Lions off balance.

Lippy struck out five through four perfect innings and only surrendered a pair of doubles in one of the best starts of his career. He hung around long enough to see his teammates push across an unearned run in the sixth for 1-0 lead and handled Behrend (0-3) in the seventh to depart in line for the victory.

Lippy worked seven innings or more for the seventh time in his career, while allowing just two hits --the fewest he's ever given up in a start of six innings or more. The Hanover native did not walk a batter and fanned six.

With the outcome still largely in question, Elizabethtown scored four times in the bottom of the eighth to open a 5-0 advantage.

Smith worked a lead off walk before giving way to pinch-runner Andrew Fisher. Nick Lorenz sacrificed Fisher into scoring position before another Behrend fielding mistake with Mike Christy at bat allowed the freshman to come home from second.

The wheels started to fall off for the Lions from there. Manning tripled to the gap in right, scoring Christy, Brennan Snyder came through with an RBI single and James Kantner doubled in Anthony Knight with the Blue Jays' (1-1) final run.

The Lions made it interesting with a three-run ninth, but Braden Stinar got Ian Taylor to line out to end it and register his first career save.

Sunday's game belonged to the pitchers, primarily the starters, with the offenses combining for just 13 hits between them. Behrend starter Jack Herzing struck out eight in six frames and allowed just three hits, but suffered the hard-luck loss on E-town's unearned run in the sixth.

The Blue Jays' Manning and Behrend first baseman David Boehme were the only players to register multi-hit games, each going 2-for-4. Taggart Hess also had one of seven hits for the Blue and Gray.

A pair of games are lined up for Monday, as Elizabethtown takes on Muskingum at 10 a.m. and Dominican (Ill.) at 2 p.m.
 
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