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Elizabethtown 7, Lebanon Valley 5
Lebanon Valley 15, Elizabethtown 7
ANNVILLE, Pa. -
Derek Brousseau broke the LVC all-time stolen bases record as Lebanon Valley ended the season with a win, splitting with Elizabethtown 7-5 and 15-7 on Saturday.
The Dutchmen (12-26) had a wild 15-run second inning in game two to send their three seniors - Brousseau,
Andrew Germann, and
John Hildebrand - off with a victory at McGill Field in the season finale. Brousseau stole two bases in the opener to take his career total to 42, surpassing the long-standing record of 40 thefts held by Craig Wolfe '95.
In game one, E-town took a 2-0 lead after one that LVC matched in the bottom of the inning when
Dylan Tamecki reached on an error to score
Phill Dohner and Brousseau. E-town broke it open with a five-run fifth with RBI base hits by Kyle Gable and Aaron Rahn before Dillon Tagle hit a two-run jack to end the scoring.
LVC chipped away with a run in the fifth on Tamecki's sacrifice fly, and the freshman singled in Brousseau in the seventh. The rally fell short, however, when
Tim Filer lined into an unlucky double play, catching Dohner off his base.
Corey Cinicola took the loss, throwing five innings and allowing all seven runs,
Patrick Reagan threw two-innings of one-hit ball in relief to help LVC get back into it. Kris Davis picked up the win, allowing two earned, and Dylan Manning had a one-out save appearance.
In game two, all 15 of LVC's runs came in one inning as they batted around twice in the second. Incredibly, all nine Dutchmen to the plate had at least one RBI in the inning; Dohner had three on two trips to the plate, and Tamecki and Hildebrand each brought in a run on both at-bats. Tamecki led off the inning with a solo home run, and after
Andrew DeCew flied out on the next at-bat, LVC went 14 batters before recording its second out, chasing starter Nick Gulla in the process.
The huge inning more than made up for the 2-0 lead E-town took in the first, and despite putting runs on the board in the third, fifth, and sixth, the Blue Jays never seriously challenged for a comeback as Dohner (1-3), Brousseau, and
Mike Specht combined for the victory.