Nick Lorenz vs. Susquehanna 4/22/18
Dan Gittis
10
Elizabethtown ETOWN 14-16
11
Winner Widener WID 18-16
Elizabethtown ETOWN
14-16
10
Final
11
Widener WID
18-16
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Elizabethtown ETOWN 0 4 0 0 2 2 1 0 1 10 17 1
Widener WID 4 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 4 11 17 2

W: Sean Maniatis (3-0) L: Thorpe, Ben (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Widener rallies past baseball in ninth

CHESTER, Pa. -- Widener scored four times in the bottom of the ninth to deny the Elizabethtown College baseball team its fifth straight win, 11-10, Wednesday afternoon.

Just over 24 hours earlier, the Blue Jays walked off Scranton with a Derek Manning three-run double, but this time they were on the opposite end of the spectrum when No. 9 hitter Brennan Taylor singled to right, bringing home the tying and winning runs with his only hit of the day.

Elizabethtown (14-16) surrendered four runs in the bottom of the first, digging itself an early hole. Widener helped the Jays get back into it with an error on a James Kantner RBI single that allowed two more runs to score. Riley McGinley scored Kantner with a groundout later in the inning to tie the game.

The Pride (18-16) went back in front with a run in the bottom of the second and two more in the fourth, but Adam Sheibley's club scored six unanswered runs to take a 10-7 lead to the bottom of the ninth.

Nick Lorenz, who was 4-for-4 with a pair of doubles and four runs scored, doubled home Brennan Snyder in the fifth and Kantner added a sacrifice fly in the inning. Colby Smith continued to chase history, collecting his 120th career RBI --three shy of tying the program's all-time record-- on a sixth-inning double.

Kantner's team-leading third RBI in the seventh and JT Thompson's RBI double in the ninth put the Jays up three.

Unfortunately for the visitors, Widener found a way to solve Ben Thorpe just in the nick of time. Thorpe, who earned his first career save in Monday's 12-11 win at Franklin & Marshall, got through the seventh and eighth unscathed, but the Pride started the ninth with a single and double to put a pair of runners in scoring position.

Chandler Liero's sacrifice fly and Dylan Pfeiffer's RBI single brought the Pride back within a run. Another double set up a second and third situation once again, and Taylor finished off the comeback by driving a 1-2 pitch into right.

Both the Blue Jays and Pride cranked out 17 hits while combining for nine doubles. Smith had three hits in five at-bats for the Blue and Gray. Kantner, McGinley and Thompson had two hits each.

Greg Elfreth and Mike Garofalo recorded three hits for Widener, and Liero knocked in three runs.

Colin McTaggart struck out three batters in as many innings after getting the start, but the Pride got to the rookie for six runs on seven hits. Fellow freshman Joseph Sarich allowed one unearned run over three innings of work.

Elizabethtown gets back to Landmark Conference play on Saturday at Juniata. Game one of the teams' doubleheader is set for a 12:30 p.m. start.
 
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