LANCASTER, Pa. – After scoring the first five runs of the game and keeping second-seeded Elizabethtown College off the scoreboard for six innings, the fifth-seeded Lycoming College baseball team was eliminated from the Landmark Conference Championship in a 15-5 setback at Penn Medicine Park on Friday night, May 9.
 
Lycoming (21-21 overall) finished its season with a .500 record in its third season since being reinstated after a 52-year absence on campus, winning a school-record 21 games and making its first appearance in the postseason in program history.
 
Junior A.J. Llorente (Williamsport, Pa./Montoursville Area) tossed six scoreless innings to start the game, as he allowed just two hits and a walk in that time while striking out four and getting 11 groundouts.
 
Ahead by a run in the third, the Warriors scored three to take a 4-0 lead, as junior Brody Lindsey (Monrovia, Md./DeMatha Catholic) walked to lead off before Llorente doubled to right center, setting up a two-RBI double to right center from sophomore Eric MacCluen (Downingtown, Pa./Bishop Shanahan). A groundout moved MacCluen up before he scored on a single to left from junior Josh Bottger (Wilkes-Barre, Pa./Wilkes-Barre Area).
 
In the fourth, Lycoming tacked on its fifth run, with junior Sean Perkins reaching after he was hit by a pitch before Lindsey hit a ground-rule double to left field, setting up a bloop single to left from Llorente.
 
Lycoming's offense, after leaving the bases loaded in the first inning, got on the board in the second, as junior Nick Hoheb (Brick, N.J./Brick Township) singled through the right side, stole second and came around to score on an opposite field single from senior Evan Mok (Daly City, Calif./St. Ignatius).
 
In the seventh inning, Elizabethtown scored 10 runs on seven hits, one error, three walks and a hit batter before adding five runs in the eighth.
 
MacCluen went 2-for-4 with a run and two RBI and a double and Llorente was 3-for-5 with a double, a run and a RBI. Lindsey was also 2-for-4 with two doubles and a run. All nine starters reached base in the game and eight had a base hit in the game.
 
David Wooley went 4-for-5 with a double, two runs and two RBI for the Blue Jays, R.J. Agriss was 3-for-5 with a double, three runs and two RBI and Alex McClain went 3-for-5 with two runs, a three-run homer and four RBI.
 
Junior Joel Inman (Berlin, N.J./Eastern Regional) (4-2) pitched 2/3 of an inning, allowing three hits and four runs. Kyle Mulville (6-2) pitched four innings of scoreless relief, allowing one hit and three walks to earn the win for Elizabethtown.
 
The Blue Jays (28-12 overall) go on to play top-seeded Wilkes University in a 2:30 p.m., Landmark Conference Championship elimination game on Saturday, May 10, at Penn Medicine Park after No. 4-seed Catholic and No. 3-seed Scranton play in a winner's bracket game at 11 a.m. The loser of the 11 a.m. game will meet the winner of the 2:30 p.m. game in another elimination game at 6 p.m.