Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. – The Arcadia University baseball team split a pair of conference games against Elizabethtown College by winning the first leg of the doubleheader, 5-4, and coming up short of the three-game series sweep, falling 6-3 in the night cap.

The Knights are now 3-10 overall and 2-4 in Commonwealth Conference games, while Elizabethtown moves to 8-8 overall and 2-4 in the conference.

Game 1: Elizabethtown 4, Arcadia 5

The Knights were able to hold off a late comeback from Elizabethtown in the sixth inning after the Blue Jays put two runs on the board to cut the Knights' lead to just one.

The Knights had scored three runs in the fourth to take a 4-1 lead. In the inning, junior Tom Wagner (Somerdale, N.J.) and freshman Justin Chasmar (Barnegat, N.J.) both pitched in with an RBI single while sophomore Connor Arsenault (Medford, N.J.) landed an RBI double to left center.

In the sixth, Elizabethtown started off with two singles and a wild pitch to make it second and third. The Blue Jays pushed across both runners on RBI groundouts, but sophomore starter Joseph Warren (Yardley, Pa.) was able to settle down and close out the game to get his first complete game of the year.

Arsenault finished the game going 2-for-4 with two RBIs, while Wagner also finished the game with two hits and an RBI.

Warren picked up the victory in his seven innings of work to improve to 1-1. Warren gave up four runs but scattered five hits and four walks while striking out two.  

Game 2: Elizabethtown 6, Arcadia 3

The Knights could not hold down the Blue Jays as Elizabethtown scored at least a run in five of their seven times to the plate. Elizabethtown took an early 3-0 after their first two at-bats and they would not relinquish the lead for the rest of the game.

Arcadia did cut into the lead in the bottom half of the second inning. Three straight singles from sophomore George Pagan (Old Bridge, N.J.), classmate Michael Nessel (Stuart, Fla.), and freshman Robert Roth (Freehold, N.J.) loaded the bases with no outs. Pagan was out at home after a fielder's choice from junior Andonis Yiantsos (Voorhees, N.J.), but a throwing error by the catcher allowed Nessel to safely cross home plate. Chasmar singled later in the inning to put across Roth and cut the deficit to just one.

The Blue Jays would score a run in each of the fourth, sixth, and seventh which would be too much for Arcadia to overcome.

After the second inning, Arcadia struggled to get the bats going, only managing to get at most one baserunner on board in an inning until the final at-bats.

In the bottom of the seventh inning, senior David Jacobs (Havre de Grace, Md.) produced a two-out single followed by Arsenault being hit by a pitch to put runners on first and second. Senior Jay Zehring (Manassas, Va.) then was able to score Jacobs because of a throwing error from the shortstop. However, the game would be closed out in the very next at-bat with a groundball to the first baseman.

Freshman Connor Travis (Berlin, N.J.) suffered the loss in three innings on the hill. Travis surrendered three runs on six hits and two walks while striking out two.  

The Knights will be back in action Tuesday at 3:30 when they travel to Ewing, N.J. to face The College of New Jersey.