READING, Pa.— The Elizabethtown baseball team scored a season-high 20 runs at Albright, Wednesday afternoon while also recording a season-high six homeruns in the 20-7 win over the Lions.
Senior
Ben Watson moved tied for first in Etown program history with 17 career homeruns.
Quinten Perilli is now tied for fourth in Etown program history with eight homeruns on the season.
Elizabethtown struck first scoring one run in the first before Albright took a 5-1 lead after bottom the first. Watson led off the inning with a double to left field, then advanced to third on an out. Watson ran home on another Blue Jay out. Etown tied the game, 5-5 in the top of the second.
Chance Montgomery hit a RBI single before Watson knocked a three-run homer to left center.
The Blue Jays kept rolling, tacking on three more runs in the third.
Robbie Bertucio started off the inning with a triple before Perilli hit Etown's second homerun of the game to take a 7-5 lead.
RJ Agriss hit a sacrifice fly to right field to score the Blue Jays eighth run.
Etown kept up their momentum scoring nine runs on seven hits and one error committed by Albright.
Tyler McGonigle led off the inning with his first homerun of the season. Agriss was plated via an error by the third baseman and advanced on Watson's single.
David Woolley singled to score Agriss. Bertucio recorded Etown's fourth homerun of the game with a three-run shot. With two outs in the fifth, the Blue Jays led, 14-5. Etown wasn't done yet with their third homerun of the inning and fifth of the game Montgomery hit a three-run homer to left field extending the Jays lead to 17-5. Elizabethtown scored their 18
th run in the sixth.
Albright got back on the board in the eighth with a solo homerun. Etown added two final runs in the ninth before the Lions also tallied their final and seventh run of the game.
Riley Thomas and
Bryce Keller each recorded an RBI in the inning.
Watson went 3-4 with three runs, three RBIs, one double, and a homerun. Bertucio went 2-4 with two runs, four RBIs, a triple, and a homerun. Perilli went 2-3 with two runs, three RBIs, and two homeruns while also striking out four on the mound. Montgomery went 3-4 with two runs, four RBIs, one double, and a homerun.
Elizabethtown travels to Scranton this weekend for their final Landmark Conference series starting Saturday, April 29 at 12PM.