ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. – No. 14/14 Shenandoah University
completed its five-game baseball road trip with an 8-1 non-league
win at Elizabethtown Wednesday afternoon.
Shenandoah (25-6) scored one run in the first and another in the
fourth before breaking things open with a three-run fifth over
E-town (13-8).
This is the fourth time in the past five years that SU has
reached the 25-win plateau under head coach Kevin
Anderson.
Junior Kevin
Brashears led off the game with a single to left before moving
to third on a Jesse Henry single.
Greg Van
Sickler then put the Hornets on top by driving in Brashears
with a groundout off the pitchers glove that Blue Jays second
baseman Andrew Gordon was able to corral and relay to first.
Scott
Van Dusseldorp doubled the advantage with a leadoff HR in the
fourth. The dinger, his 11th of the season, ties Van
Dusseldorp with Geoff Williams '00 for the all-time lead at
SU. Both men now have 28 career homers.
The Hornets did all of their damage in the fifth inning with two
outs. Jesse
Henry plated the first run with a double to center to score
Brashears before Van Sickler drove home with a double of his own,
this one to left center. A pair wild pitches brought home Van
Sickler and put a cap to the scoring in the frame.
Senior Jake
Yocum (3-0) struck out six and allowed one run on six hits in 6
2/3. With the bases loaded and two outs in the seventh, Yocum
turned it over to Kyle Scallion to work
out of trouble.
Scallion induced a fielder's choice to end the threat in
the seventh and then recorded the final six outs, allowing
only one single, to post his fifth save of the spring.
SU had another two out rally in the eighth.
Sophomore Jake Pendergraft
reached on a throwing error by the catcher following a strikeout
and after advancing to second a Keaton Neeb
groundout, was driven home on a Jon Holcomb two-run
single through the right side.
Holcomb also plated Brashears, who had been hit by a pitch and
promptly stole second base.
Henry and Cory
Nelson finished their days with a team-high four hits while
Brashears, Van Sickler and Holcomb had two each.
The Hornets are scheduled to host Eastern Mennonite on Thursday
night at 6 in another non-league contest. A decision to move the
game time up an hour or two, based on the weather forecast, will be
made Thursday morning.
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