ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. -- The Elizabethtown College baseball team closed out its season with a split at Kevin Scott Boyd Stadium with Drew, winning game two after dropping the first of the day.
Derek Manning homered and
Riley McGinley was perfect at the plate for the Blue Jays while
Tyler Dunbar pitched another quality game to get the win for E-town.
HOW IT HAPPENED
Game 1: Drew 8, Elizabethtown 4
- Drew (20-17, 8-10 Landmark) built up a 4-0 lead through three innings with a run in the first and three more in the third.
- Elizabethtown (14-26, 7-11 Landmark) got back within a run in the bottom half of the third with three of their own.
- Manning doubled down the left field line to bring home
Andrew Fisher.
Anthony Knight also scored on the play.
- With Manning at third, McGinley drove a ball to right field, deep enough to allow Manning to score safely. The run made it 4-3.
- In the sixth,
Robbie Bertucio sent a single up the middle to tie the game at 4-4.
- The Rangers struck in the top of the seventh with four runs to double up the Blue Jays, 8-4.
- Davis Fouts closed out the game without allowing a run and Drew took the first game of the doubleheader.
Game 2: Elizabethtown 12, Drew 3
- The Rangers led right away with three runs in the first, but from there, it was all Elizabethtown.
- An error by Drew allowed
Mike Christy to score in the second, the first of three runs for the Jays in the inning.
- Fisher singled to left center to plate a pair of runs and E-town was level at 3-3 with the Rangers.
- Manning cracked his ninth home run of the season to left center, a solo shot, to give the Blue Jays a 4-3 lead.
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Arley Shepherd kept it going with an RBI single to center.
- Manning drove in a run for the second consecutive inning with a sac fly RBI. Shepherd also knocked home a run for the second straight inning with a base hit up the middle to score Christy.
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Taggart Hess doubled to right in the fifth with the Jays ahead 7-3. His RBI double brought home
Tyler McGonigle. Knight's sacrifice fly to center made it 9-3.
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Andrew Coleman, McGonigle, and
James Kantner each had RBI hits for E-town in the sixth inning as the score increased to a nine-run lead for the Blue & Gray.
- Dunbar went six innings, only surrendering three runs with one unearned and two punchouts.
Justin Cherry and
Anthony Cameron combined for the final three innings and didn't allow a hit. They each struck out one.
- McGinley was a team-best 4-for-4 at the plate. Fisher, Manning, and Shepherd each had two RBIs.
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