BOX SCORE
Boyertown, Pa. (May 17, 2007) – Sophomore starter Sam Heaps (Landenberg, PA) threw seven scoreless innings allowing six hits and two walks with five strikeouts to lead #6 Elizabethtown College to a 4-2 win over #7 Wilkes University Thursday afternoon at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Baseball Regional at Bear Stadium.
Elizabethtown (23-17) put single runs on the board in the fourth, fifth, and sixth innings. Brandon Watson (Philadelphia, PA) walked and scored in the fourth inning, and Rodney Francis (Pottstown, PA) repeated the feat in the fifth. Senior Jared Morris (Brielle, N.J.) singled to open the sixth and scored on a ground ball double play to put the Blue Jays up 3-0.
Wilkes (24-12) scored a run on a Matt LoPresto (Pittston, Pa.) solo homer in the home half of the eighth, but Etown got it right back scoring once on four singles in the ninth. Wilkes scored once in the bottom of the ninth and brought the winning run to the plate with two out, but Andrew Garofoli (Altoona, Pa.) popped out to end the game.
Five different players had two hits in the game for Wilkes which stranded 13 runners. Francis scored twice for Etown and seven different players had one hit each for the Blue Jays who advance to face the loser of the Johns Hopkins/College of New Jersey game Friday at 9:30 a.m.
#6 Elizabethtown 4, #7 Wilkes 2