Colby Smith vs. Scranton 3/29/18
Wyatt Eaton
10
Winner Elizabethtown ETOWN 19-16, 11-5 Landmark
2
Drew DREW 16-21, 6-10 Landmark
Winner
Elizabethtown ETOWN
19-16, 11-5 Landmark
10
Final
2
Drew DREW
16-21, 6-10 Landmark
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Elizabethtown ETOWN 1 1 0 5 0 1 0 2 0 10 16 2
Drew DREW 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 6 2

W: Lippy, Anthony (6-4) L: Paul Roth (3-6)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Smith sets career RBI record in Blue Jays' 10-2 win at Drew

MADISON, N.J. -- On the day senior Colby Smith became the Blue Jays' career RBI leader, Elizabethtown jumped into the top spot in the Landmark Conference with a commanding 10-2 win at Drew, Friday.

Smith isn't in danger of losing his perch in the record books, but his team still has work to do if it wants to claim the top seed in next weekend's conference tournament.

E-town (19-16, 11-5 Landmark) must sweep tomorrow's doubleheader from the Rangers to make that happen.

If Smith and company can replicate Friday's offense, the Blue Jays have a great shot.

Nick Lorenz homered and drove in four, Smith knocked in three and the 1-5 hitters combined for 13 of the Jays' 16 hits.

RBI singles from Lorenz and Anthony Knight in the first two innings staked Elizabethtown to a lead it would not surrender. The Blue Jays had ace Anthony Lippy on the bump and broke the game open with a five-run fourth.

Smith tied Chris Romig's 18-year old program record with his 122nd and 123rd career RBIs on a single to left in the fourth that doubled E-town's lead.

The Middlesex, New Jersey native, who grew up just over a half hour from Drew's campus, made history in the sixth, battling through a seven-pitch at-bat before pulling a ball down the left field line for a single that scored Knight with RBI No. 124.

Lorenz moved into a tie for fifth all-time with hall of famer Gene Wise when he drilled a two-run shot for career home run No. 14 with two outs in the eighth.

Lippy also continued to climb the Blue Jays' pitching ranks with his sixth complete game of the season. The righty matched a career-high with eight strikeouts for the second start in a row and third time this season.

Lippy's six complete games are the most by an E-town pitcher since 2009. His 17 career wins (6-4 this season) are tied for 10th all-time and he's solidly inside the top 10 in appearances (49, T-7th) and innings pitched (224, 8th).

Lippy allowed six hits and one earned run during a 125-pitch outing. He also yielded just one walk.

Knight, Lorenz and Derek Manning each had three hits for Elizabethtown. Smith, Brennan Snyder and Riley McGinley collected a pair.

Manning's scorching run over the last week continued as he racked up a fourth consecutive multi-hit game. Since seeing his batting average fall to .386 on April 21, the junior outfielder has gone 26-for-44 (.591) with nine multi-hit performances in 11 games, including a four-hit game and five three-hit games.

The East Petersburg, Pennsylvania product is hitting a league-best .455 and became the eighth Blue Jay to register a 60-hit season on Friday.

Drew's (16-21, 6-10) offense didn't produce a run against Lippy until the fourth and even that one, on an Anthony Tagliaferro sac fly, was unearned.

Lead-off hitter Max Felsenstein added a seventh-inning RBI single for the Rangers, but starting pitcher Paul Roth put his team in a deep hole by allowing seven runs (six earned) on 11 hits in 3.2 innings.

Saturday's doubleheader is set for a noon start.
 
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