Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score

ANNVILLE, Pa. - With the Commonwealth Conference's #1 playoff seed on the line, Elizabethtown rolled to a 16-1 second-game victory Saturday after LVC worked a thrilling 10-5 opening-game comeback.

Head Coach Keith Evans won his 100th career game with the victory in the opener.

The Dutchmen (19-18-1, 10-5 CC) will enter the playoffs next weekend as the #2 seed, while the Blue Jays (23-11, 12-3 CC) will take the top spot. LVC will play Widener at 7:30 p.m. Friday night at Owl Field in West Lawn, just outside of Reading.

On an unseasonably warm, sunny day at McGill Field, LVC came back from 5-4 down with a huge six-run sixth inning to back Shane Specht's complete game in the opener, but E-town blasted back-to-back homers in the first inning of game two to take a 5-0 lead that LVC never recovered from.

GAME ONE

LVC and E-town went run-for-run in the early part of the first game, with both scoring in the first and third innings to forge a 4-4 tie.

After Rodney Francis' sac fly in the first, LVC answered with Joe Soupik's RBI single to center. The Jays came back with three runs in the third, keyed by Sam Heaps' double and knocks by Tom Semanek and Yeager.

In the bottom of the frame, Grant Wiest's double moved Dustin Deibert to third with no outs, and Colt Zarilla reached on an error by the shortstop as Deibert scored. Soupik then drove in Wiest with a ground-out, and Derek Helwig's single tied the game at 4-4.

E-town then took the lead in the fourth when Adam Shiebley put Eric Luff across, but LVC put the game out of reach as they batted around in the sixth.

Brandon Stoothoff started the rally with a double to score Helwig, and Aaron Mills, pinch-running for Stoothoff at third, came home on a throwing error by the first baseman. That started a string of hits for the Dutchmen with Deibert and Helwig driving in three more runs to cap the inning.

Specht (3-3) went the distance, allowing seven hits and striking out four. Starter Adam Hartzell left with the lead after four, but Dan Lauletta (1-2) was touched for five of the six runs in the sixth to take the loss.

GAME TWO

The second game fell apart on LVC almost immediately, with the Jays' Brian Kiernan and Yeager going back-to-back with a grand slam and a solo shot in the first inning.

E-town scored three more in the second to knocked starter Nick Faria out after one and a third, and two more runs in the third made it a 10-0 game. Elizabethtown piled on more runs later in the game, including a two-run bomb by Kiernan to cap his six-RBI game.

LVC's only run came in the fifth when Wiest hit a sac fly to center to plate Nate Blough.

Matt Vinagro (6-1) was outstanding, going five innings and allowing six hits to pick up the win, and Matt Kutz threw two innings of hitless relief. LVC combined seven pitchers, with Faria (3-3) getting the loss.

NEXT UP: LVC will play its home finale Monday against Gettysburg.