Nick Lorenz vs. Swarthmore 3/30/18
Wyatt Eaton
17
Winner Elizabethtown ETOWN 9-13
6
Lebanon Valley LVC 9-17
Winner
Elizabethtown ETOWN
9-13
17
Final
6
Lebanon Valley LVC
9-17
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Elizabethtown ETOWN 6 2 4 0 1 0 0 3 1 17 20 2
Lebanon Valley LVC 0 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 6 11 7

W: Lippy, Anthony (3-4) L: Daymond Zweizig (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Lorenz scores 100th career run, Blue Jays blast LVC

ANNVILLE, Pa. -- Nick Lorenz scored a pair of runs, including the 100th of his career, and drove in three as Elizabethtown scored 12 times in the first three innings to run away with a 17-6 non-conference victory at Lebanon Valley Tuesday afternoon.

Dutchmen hurlers were in for a long day after starter Daymond Zweizig walked lead-off hitter Anthony Knight and tagged Colby Smith with a pitch.

Derek Manning stroked a two-run double to the gap in right center for the Blue Jays' (9-13) first runs and Knight capped the first-inning scoring with a two-run single as Lebanon Valley surrendered a six spot.

Elizabethtown pushed its lead to 8-0 in the second. Mike Christy and Nick Lorenz started the inning with back-to-back doubles, Lorenz knocking in his second run in as many innings. Riley McGinley added an RBI single that plated Lorenz with his century mark run.

The Dutchmen (9-17) broke through with three runs in the bottom of the second, but they could not slow E-town's offense.

With temperatures hanging in the low 40s, unseasonably cold for mid-April, the Blue Jay bats were anything but cold.

Four hits and a pair of LVC errors led to four more E-town runs in the top of the third and chased Zweizig in the process. Knight (single), Christy (double) and Nick Bein (double) all produced run-scoring hits. The Blue Jays registered 11 of their 20 hits in the first three frames.

Lorenz cracked his second double of the game in the fifth to score Manning and Smith added a two-run double in the eighth.

Freshmen Tommy Holcomb and Andrew Fisher recorded their first collegiate RBIs in the late going, with Holcomb supplying an eighth-inning groundout and Fisher a ninth-inning single.

Jared Witner started and struck out three in four innings. Anthony Lippy followed with two scoreless innings of relief to earn his third win of the season. Ben Thorpe (2 IP) and Justin Cherry (1 IP) also got some work in.

Zweizig was rocked for 11 runs (five earned) on nine hits over just 2.1 innings in taking the loss.

Knight was 3-for-5 with three runs scored and three RBIs. Since occupying the lead-off spot in Adam Sheibley's lineup at Catholic on April 6, the Penn Manor grad is 12-for-26 (.462) with nine runs scored. Knight extended his season-long hitting streak to 11 games Tuesday and is batting a team-leading .458.

Smith tied his first-year head coach for second on Elizabethtown's all-time RBI list with 115. The fifth-year senior from Middlesex, N.J. is eight RBIs away from tying Chris Romig's program record of 123.

Lorenz totaled three hits and three RBIs, while Manning, Christy, Bein, McGinley and Taggart Hess all had two hits.

Josh Herring had three hits and scored twice to lead LVC. Trevor Bertsch was 2-for-3 with two RBIs.

Elizabethtown is back on its home field at Boyd Stadium tomorrow to take on Muhlenberg at 4 p.m.
 
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