HARRISONBURG, Va. -- The Elizabethtown baseball team got its season underway on Sunday against Bridgewater (Va.). The teams played their doubleheader at James Madison University, where the Eagles won both over the Blue Jays. 11-6 was the game one final with a low-scoring affair that followed, 4-2, in favor of Bridgewater. Ben Watson had an RBI in each game for Etown.

Game 1: Bridgewater (Va.) 11, Elizabethtown 6
After a scoreless first, the Eagles got things going in the second and third innings. Heading into the fourth, it was a 9-0 game.

Watson recorded the first RBI of the season for Elizabethtown (0-2) with a base hit to single Andrew Fisher. Watson and Fisher were part of the five-man crew that had multi-hit efforts in game one for the Blue Jays.

Joey Thomas and Robbie Bertucio each had RBIs for the Jays in the seventh inning as they crept closer at 9-3. 

In the eighth, after Bridgewater (5-2) got those two runs back to replenish their eight-run cushion, Etown carved into it once again. RJ Agriss got his first career hit and RBI in the top half of the eighth. His single to center scored Tyler McGonigle. Agriss would later score in the inning on Thomas' base hit. Fisher also scored in the eighth on a wild pitch and Elizabethtown trailed by five with one last chance in the ninth.

The Eagles shut the door and didn't allow another run as they held on for the 11-6 win. Bertucio, Bryce Keller, and James Vito also had two hits apiece in the game.

Matt Barton and Kyle Mulville made relief appearances for Etown.

Game 2: Bridgewater (Va.) 4, Elizabethtown 2
Fisher led off game two with a double and then stole third. Watson would get him in with a sac fly to left and Elizabethtown had the early lead, 1-0.

Bridgewater would get the run right back in the bottom half of the inning with a two-out base hit.

After the Eagles tacked on two runs in the third and the Jays down by two, Keller singled to third and an errant throw from the defense allowed Thomas to score to get Etown within a run at 3-2. Thomas laid down a one-out bunt single to get on. EC left runners stranded at second and third in the sixth and had eight total left on base in the game.

Elizabethtown couldn't manage a hit over the final two innings and Bridgewater (Va.) closed it out for a 4-2 win to take the doubleheader.

Fisher and Keller both finished game two with a pair of hits. Nicholas Ortega struck out five in 5.1 innings of work for the Jays. Eric Sipling fanned two in 1.2 innings of relief work.

The baseball team will play at Piedmont for a three-game set in Demorest, Ga. The teams will play a doubleheader on Sunday, February 27, and a single game on Monday, February 28.