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Elizabethtown 4, Lebanon Valley 0
Lebanon Valley 8, Elizabethtown 5

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. - Lebanon Valley clinched a spot in the Commonwealth Conference Championship Tournament, winning its final series of the year with Elizabethtown in a doubleheader split.

After winning the series opener on Friday, LVC needed to win one of two games on Saturday to make the four-team CC tournament field; they dropped the first game 4-0, but bounced back to win game two 8-5 to secure the fourth seed in the tournament. Lebanon Valley will play top-seeded Widener Thursday at 4 p.m. in the opener at Santander Stadium in York.

Tim Filer's 3-for-3, three-RBI game two paced the Valley, who drilled 14 hits in the nightcap after they were shut down by Kevin Elwell's four-hit shutout in the opener.

Game One
LVC never got its offense going as Elizabethtown took game one 4-0 behind Elwell's complete-game four-hitter.

The Blue Jays went ahead on Luke Gatti's first-inning RBI single, and that was all they needed as the Dutchmen put only two runners in scoring position over seven innings and none past second base. Kyle Fackler scored on Sean Jones' fifth-inning double, and a pair of runs came across in the sixth keyed by Jake Weber's pinch-hit single.

LVC's best chance was in the first when Zac Edwards led off with a double but was stranded; Jordan Higgins reached second in the fourth with one out but was doubled up on a liner to end the inning. Zach Smith went 2-for-3; Edwards and Filer had LVC's other hits.

Jason Barthold (2-3) had a solid start, scattering seven hits and allowing three earned, with Patrick Reagan picking a hitless inning of relief. Elwell (4-2) struck out one and did not allow a walk in the win.

Game Two
LVC scored early and often, jumping out to a big early lead and hanging on for the 8-5 victory.

The Dutchmen scored four in the first inning, all with two outs, then added three more in the second. Higgins drove in Phill Dohner to start the first-inning rally, and RBI singles by Devin Dellinger and Mike Specht, and a Zack Tomasko wild pitch, scored three more runs. In the second, Higgins' sacrifice fly plated Brett Fundell before Filer roped a two-run single through the right side to make it 7-0 and chase Tomasko.

Elizabethtown chipped away with a run in the third that Filer answered with an RBI single in the fourth, but the Jays made things interesting with two runs in each of the last two innings. After cutting the LVC lead to 8-5 in the seventh, Mike Wakalowski entered with a runner on and two outs, and induced a grounder to get the save, his first.

Lee Webber (2-0) ended up with the win with starter Corey Cinicola dparting after three innings of five-hit, one-run ball. Webber pitched 2.2 innings and allowed two runs; Corey Sell faced one batter to end the eighth, and Brent McDowell began the ninth before Wakalowski completed the game. Tomasko (2-2) was pulled in the second inning, and E-town combined three relivers in the loss.