2/25/2006

Elizabethtown Falls in Doubleheader at Shenandoah, 16-7 and 3-2

ELIZABETHTHOWN COLLEGE BASEBALL
Saturday, February 25, 2006

Elizabethtown Falls in Doubleheader at Shenandoah, 16-7 and 3-2

WINCHESTER, Va. --- Elizabethtown College dropped to 0-3 in the 2006 season with a pair of losses in a doubleheader at Shenandoah University Saturday. The Blue Jays fell 16-7 in the first game and lost 3-2 in the second game.

In the first game, Etown took a 1-0 lead in the first inning, went up 2-0 in the second inning, and held a 4-0 lead halfway through the third inning. Shenandoah roared back beginning in the bottom of the third, tying the game 4-4. By the end of the fourth, the host Hornets led 6-4, and an eight-run bottom of the fifth inning gave Shenandoah a 14-4 lead. Shenandoah went up 16-4 in the bottom of the sixth. Elizabethtown rallied in the top of the seventh with three runs to cut the gap to 16-7.

Jon Kalejta (Boyertown, PA/Boyertown) led the Etown offense in the first game as he batted 2-for-4 with a triple, a double, two runs scored and two RBI.

In the second game, Shenandoah held a 1-0 lead after the end of the first inning. Both teams scored one run in the top of the fourth. Etown tied the game 2-2 in the top of the sixth, but Shenandoah scored one run in the bottom of the seventh to win.

Kalejta scored both of Etown’s runs and went 1-for-2 with a double and a walk. Dean Whetham (Wilmington, DE/Brandywine) batted 2-for-3 with one RBI for Etown.

Etown will return to action in its annual Spring Break trip to Florida March 5 through March 10.