Braden Stinar vs. Scranton 4/24/18
Dan Gittis
3
Moravian MOR 18-22
5
Winner Elizabethtown ETOWN 21-18
Moravian MOR
18-22
3
Final
5
Elizabethtown ETOWN
21-18
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Moravian MOR 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 8 2
Elizabethtown ETOWN 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 X 5 8 1

W: Stinar, Braden (6-1) L: Rhett Jacoby (5-3)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Stinar sizzles, Christy clutch as Jays eliminate Moravian

SCRANTON, Pa. -- Braden Stinar struck out a career-high 11 and Mike Christy hit a go-ahead two-run double in the bottom of the eighth as Elizabethtown eliminated Moravian with a 5-3 victory at the Landmark Baseball Championship early Saturday afternoon.

Greyhounds' clean-up hitter Austin Markowski took Stinar deep for a three-run homer in the top of the first, but Elizabethtown's junior hurler locked it down from there.

Stinar struck out multiple batters in each of the first three innings, including the side in the third. He's the first Blue Jay pitcher with 10 or more strikeouts in a game since Kristopher Davis whiffed 15 against Maritime (N.Y.) on Feb. 28, 2015.

Trailing 3-1 in the fourth, Christy unloaded on the first pitch from Moravian (18-22) ace Rhett Jacoby, sending it out for a two-run shot and tying the game.

The score remained tied until the eighth, when Christy delivered again. Nick Lorenz walked and Derek Manning singled to put a pair on for the junior from Harleysville. Christy punched a two-out double down the right field line to bring both runners home for a 5-3 lead.

Stinar quickly put the Hounds away with a 1-2-3 ninth, sending Elizabethtown into a second elimination game against the Scranton/Catholic loser on Saturday evening.

Christy and Manning each inched closer to 100 career hits as the only E-town (21-18) batters with mutliple hits in the game.

Christy was 2-for-4 with a run scored and four RBIs. His game-winning hit was the 99th of his career. Manning singled three times in four at-bats to pull within two knocks of the century mark.

Stinar upped his record to 6-1 on the year with his third complete game. He scattered eight hits --only five from the second inning on-- and walked just one.

James Kantner, Anthony Knight and Riley McGinley each had a hit for the Blue and Gray.

For Moravian, Ian Csencsits and Evan Kulig totaled two hits apiece. Jacoby took the loss with four runs allowed (three earned) on six hits in 7.1 innings. He struck out six.

 
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