James Kantner vs. Swarthmore 3/30/18
Wyatt Eaton
11
Winner Elizabethtown ETOWN 17-16, 10-5 Landmark
7
Juniata JUN 10-26, 3-15 Landmark
Winner
Elizabethtown ETOWN
17-16, 10-5 Landmark
11
Final
7
Juniata JUN
10-26, 3-15 Landmark
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Elizabethtown ETOWN 0 1 0 0 3 4 2 0 1 11 17 1
Juniata JUN 0 0 1 0 5 0 0 1 0 7 14 3

W: Witner, Jared (2-1) L: Nevin Wood (0-3) S: Cameron, Anthony (2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball completes series sweep of Juniata, clinches spot in Landmark tourney

HUNTINGDON, Pa. -- Every Elizabethtown batter had at least one hit on Sunday afternoon as the Blue Jays outlasted Juniata 11-7 to sweep their three-game weekend set and clinch a spot in the upcoming Landmark Championship tournament.

The defending champion Blue Jays can still claim the tournament's top seed with a sweep at Drew to finish the regular season next weekend.

James Kantner started the scoring for E-town (17-16, 10-5 Landmark) with a single up the middle in the top of the second that scored Mike Christy.

With the game tied at one entering the fifth, both teams erupted for multiple runs. Nick Lorenz drilled a two-run triple and Christy singled him home as the Jays pushed three runs across for a 4-1 lead. Lorenz reached the 100-RBI mark for his career with the hit, becoming the second player to achieve the milestone this season and 12th in program history.

The Eagles (10-26, 3-15) responded with five runs on a pair of sacrifice flies, a fielder's choice, an error and Dillon Hippensteel's RBI single to take its only lead, 6-4.

Elizabethtown grabbed the lead back in the top of the sixth with a four-spot. This time it was the visitors collecting two sac flies (Anthony Knight and Derek Manning), while Brennan Snyder delivered the big blow with a two-run double to center.

Taggart Hess and Colby Smith drove in seventh-inning runs to extend the Jays' lead to 10-6. Smith's 121st career RBI moved within two of tying the program's all-time record.

Mike Garvey battled temps in the mid 40s --more appropriate for early-to-mid March-- and though the Eagles got to him for four runs, only two were earned in his 4.1-inning outing.

Jared Witner relieved Garvey in the fifth and got the final two outs. Witner would collect his second career win after the Blue Jays took the lead for good in the top of the sixth.

Anthony Cameron kept the Juniata bats in check with a run on four hits in a four-inning save. Cameron struck out three.

Christy and Kantner paced the Blue Jay offense with three hits each. Knight, Smith, Manning and Hess had two-hit games and eight different players finished with an RBI.

Isaac Maclay was 2-for-5 with a home run for Juniata. The Eagles also got three hits from Hippensteel and Hunter Price in defeat.

Elizabethtown returns to Boyd Stadium tomorrow afternoon for its final home game of the season against Messiah at 4 p.m.
 
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