ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE BASEBALL
Wednesday, March 8, 2000

ETOWN DEFEATS CURRY, 6-1, FALLS TO CONCORDIA, 10-6, AT FT. PIERCE, FL

FT. PIERCE, Fla. --- Elizabethtown is now 4-2 in its season-opening spring break trip in Florida. The Blue Jays most recently defeated Curry (MA), 6-1, and lost to Concordia, 10-6, Wednesday.

Jay Stasi (Old Tappan, NJ/Northern Valley) got his first collegiate victory Wednesday morning in Etown's 6-1 win over Curry. He pitched six innings and gave up four hits. Mark Dixon (Havertown, PA/Delaware County Christian) went two for three from the plate for the Blue Jays, and Joe Adams (Rockville Center, NY/Oceanside) hit three for four and scored three runs.

Etown fell 10-6 Wednesday night to Concordia, a Division II school that was one game away from making the NCAA D-II World Series in 1999. Derik Aason (Cary, NC/Smithtown) got tagged for the loss. The Blue Jays had five hits in the game, and all of them were doubles. Kevin Bonner (Pitman, NJ/Pitman) went one for two at the plate with a steal and two runs scored, and Jared Ness (McPherson, KS/Mcpherson) hit two for three with three RBI.

Six games into the season, Etown is hitting .310 as a team. Ness is leading the team in batting average with .450, and Shawn Price (Bethlehem, PA/Liberty) is hitting .416. Adams is batting .384, and Tim Downing (St. James, NY/Smithtown) is hitting.357.

The Blue Jays will conclude their spring break trip with two more games Friday against Pitt-Greensburg and William Penn.