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Thursday, April 5, Elizabethtown College’s baseball team took on Immaculata University for a win with a final score of 9-7.
First-year pitcher Tyler Dunbar helped the team take down Immaculata with four runs in the fourth inning.
During the last five innings, the Blue Jays took the lead against their opponents by 7-2.
Senior Colby Smith hit a double to left center early in the game, which helped sophomore Derek Manning to tie the score.
In the second inning, the Mighty Macs had a run, after which a score from them allowed them to break the tie and take the lead.
At the end of the second inning sophomore Riley McGinley plated junior Mike Christy.
In three runs in the third inning, Immaculata took the lead 5-2. Senior Brennan Snyder hit a home run in the fourth inning putting the Blue Jays back onto the scoreboard.
First-year JT Thompson brought junior James Kantner home and raised the score to 5-4.
Dunbar pitched four scoreless innings, making one strikeout. Etown held a 9-5 lead going into the ninth inning.
Junior Anthony Cameron struck out during the inning, and then ended the game with a fly out and his first save this season.
Friday, April 6 the Blue Jays went on a doubleheader against the Catholic University of America, at first taking a loss and then walking away with a win.
In the first game the final score was 9-4. Catholic took a five-run lead in the first inning. Smith and Snyder managed to score for Etown by the third inning.
Junior Taggart Hess hit an RBI single in the fifth inning, while Snyder hit a home run, but Catholic was not stepping down.
Senior Anthony Lippy tried for his third complete pitching game of the season, but the Cardinals got him for nine runs, seven of which were earned on a total of 12 hits.
Junior Anthony Knight was Etown’s lead-off hitter, earning two hits in this game.
In game two, the Blue Jays made a comeback, winning at 17-4. In this game, out of the first 12 runs Etown claimed 11 of them, making it the second highest score of the season. Smith and Snyder had four hits each, helping the Blue Jays advance around the bases and putting their first runs on the board.
Etown scored runs in the first four innings, with Hess and McGinley making a double and first-year Arley Shepherd hitting a single. This brought the Blue Jays to a 6-0 lead.
In the fourth inning, Etown had four more runs, upping the score to 10-1. Snyder hit a two-run double by the seventh.
Knight and senior Nick Lorenz scored in the eighth, while the final runs were made by Thompson and Smith.
Smith made his 109th RBI, which crowns him the fifth student at Etown to do this alongside Brad Duppstadt and Darrel Justh.
Junior Braden Stinar pitched five innings during the game. It was his second victory this season.
He struck out four and limited the Cardinals to three runs, two of which were earned.
Junior Jared Witner struck out three times within two innings. Meanwhile, first year Tyler Disbrow pitched twice in the ninth inning, leaving Catholic without any more runs.
The team’s next game will take place Monday, April 16, at Albright College starting at 4 p.m.
