ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE BASEBALL
Tuesday, March 28, 2000

ETOWN DEFEATS DICKINSON, 13-7

ELIZABETHOWN, Pa. --- It was a wild ride, but in the end Elizabethtown came out on top Tuesday with a 13-7 victory over Dickinson in a game which saw totals of eight errors and nine unearned runs.

Following three innings fought to a 0-0 draw, Dickinson (3-10) scored three runs in the top of the fourth off of Etown starter Jay Stasi (Old Tappan, NJ/Northern Valley). However, only one of the runs was earned. Of five runs Stasi gave up, only two were earned.

Elizabethtown (9-7) responded in the bottom of the fourth by scoring two runs off an error and consecutive doubles by Jared Ness (McPherson, KS/McPherson) and Mark Dixon (Havertown, PA/Delaware County Christian).

Dickinson came right back in the top of the fifth inning, scoring four runs on to take a 7-2 lead. Again, only one run scored in the inning was earned, and the Red Devils had no base hits in the fifth. Two batters reached first via walks, one was hit by a pitch, and two reached base and drove in runs through errors.

From the sixth inning on, Elizabethtown held Dickinson scoreless. Etown also began to chip away at the Red Devils' lead in the bottom of the sixth, scoring four runs. Ness, Dixon, Jeff Peterson (Seaford, DE/Seaford), and Brad Heilman (York, PA/Spring Grove) led off the inning with four consecutive singles.

Elizabethtown took the lead for good upon scoring seven runs in the bottom of the seventh inning. The Blue Jays cycled through 12 batters in the inning.

Ness batted four for four with a double and three runs scored, Dixon hit three for four with a double and four RBI, and Tyler Comp (Enola, PA/East) had three RBI and two runs scored for the Blue Jays.

Zach Leverenz (Accident, MD/Northern Garrett) drove in three runs, and Adam Reedey (Harrisburg, PA/Susquehanna Township) scored two runs while going two for two at the plate for Dickinson. Steve Beyer (Baltimore, MD/Gilman School) had two steals for the Red Devils.

At Elizabethtown, PA
Elizabethtown 13, Dickinson 7

John Koenig, Kirk Kieffer (6), Tom Pratt (7) and Nick Skowronski; Jay Stasi, Eric Lau (5), Jamie Newton (8), Bryan Pittinger (9) and Chris Turtell. WP: Lau (2-1). LP: Kieffer. SO-BB: Koenig 0-0, Kieffer 0-3, Pratt 1-1, Stasi 3-2, Lau 1-1, Newton 0-0, Pittinger 1-1. 2B: Jared Ness (E), Mark Dixon (E). SB: Steve Beyer 2 (D).