Elizabethtown Edges Behrend Baseball

Elizabethtown Edges Behrend Baseball

FORT PIERCE, Fla. – The Penn State Behrend baseball team fell 2-1 to Elizabethtown on day four of spring break in Fort Pierce, Florida.

Final Score: Elizabethtown 2, Penn State Behrend 1
Records: Penn State Behrend (3-4), Elizabethtown (4-3)

Key Moments:

* The single nine-inning game had seven scoreless frames
* The Lions got ahead 1-0 after the first
* Zac Bogats (Corapolis, PA/Moon) led off with a single to left center and advanced to second on a Mac Ciocco (Venetia, PA/Peters Township) hit to third
* Both advanced a base on a wild pitch, before Bogats scored on a Juston Jones (Moon Township, PA/Moon) ground out to first base
* Behrend tallied two of its five hits in the first inning
* Evan Bromley (Bethel Park, PA/Bethel Park) worked the first five innings, throwing 62 strikes in 97 pitches and fanning four
* Sawyer Prince (Shinglehouse, PA/Port Allegany) finished the game, striking out five and allowing one earned run
* The Blue Jays scored a pair of runs in the sixth behind two hits, two wild pitches, two strikeouts and a base on balls
* Elizabethtown recorded 12 hits, getting three apiece from Robbie Bertucio and David Woolley
* Aiden Russell collected the win in six innings with five strikeouts and one earned run

Up Next:

* Behrend returns to action tomorrow for a single against Northwestern (Minn.).  Game time is 2:30 p.m.