ELIZABETHTHOWN COLLEGE BASEBALL
Monday, March 13, 2006

Elizabethtown Battles York to 16-16 Draw

YORK, Pa. --- Elizabethtown College and York College (Pa.) battled to a wild 16-16 draw Monday evening. The game was called due to darkness. York took a 2-1 lead in the first inning and extended its lead to 3-1 in the second. In the third inning, Etown went ahead 5-3, and the Blue Jays pushed ahead 6-3 in the fourth. York tied the game 6-6 in the fifth inning and went ahead 8-6 in the sixth. After the seventh inning, the score stood at 11-10 in York’s favor. By the end of the eighth inning, Elizabethtown held a 15-13 lead. Etown added one more run in the top of the ninth to go ahead 16-13, and York responded with three runs in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game.

The game was actually called with two outs and York runners on first and second in the bottom of the ninth inning. According to NCAA rule 5-8-b-3, runs scored in an uncompleted inning are counted if the team second at bat is at bat when the game is called and scored in the incomplete inning the same number of runs or more runs than the team first at bat.

Bryan Torresani (Horsham, PA/Hatboro-Horsham) batted 4-for-5 with a double, three runs scored and four RBI for Etown, and he was hit by a pitch. Tom Semanek (Swoyersville, PA/Bishop Hoban) hit 4-for-5 with a double, one run and three RBI. Adam Sheibley (Landisburg, PA/West Perry) scored three runs, drove in one and hit 2-for-4 with a triple, a walk and a sacrifice fly for the Blue Jays. Mike Donahue (Hatfield, PA/Lansdale Catholic) also scored three runs and drove in one, and he batted 2-for-4 with two sacrifices and two stolen bases. Jose Medina (Philadelphia, PA/Cardinal Dougherty) scored three runs for Etown, and Brandon Watson (Philadelphia, PA/Central) batted 2-for-6 with one run scored and three RBI.

Elizabethtown will return to action on the road Saturday, March 18 in a Commonwealth Conference doubleheader against Messiah College beginning at 1:00 p.m.