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FAIRFAX, Va. - With five Lycoming College baseball players posting at least two hits in the program's first postseason game, fifth-seeded Lycoming kept pressure on the fourth-seeded Catholic University of America all game, but fell, 10-3, in the opening round of the Landmark Conference Championship at Patriot Park North on Tuesday afternoon.
The Warriors (21-20 overall) fall into the elimination bracket of the championship and will face the loser of the game between No. 2 Elizabethtown and No. 3 Scranton on Friday, May 9, at 6 p.m., at Penn Medicine Park in Lancaster, Pa. Catholic (24-16 overall) and No. 1 Wilkes will play in a winner's bracket game at 2:30 p.m., on Friday after the Elizabethtown and Scranton game at 11 a.m.
Junior Nick Reeder, a Montoursville graduate, went 3 for 6 with a triple, a run and a RBI, sophomore Sean Perkins was 3 for 5, senior Danny DeLucas was 2 for 4 with a run and RBI, junior Brody Lindsey went 2 for 5 and junior Nick Hoheb was 2 for 5 with a run and a double.
Lycoming took a 2-1 lead in the second inning, as Hoheb led off with a double before moving to third on a sac bunt. After a groundout, Reeder singled in Hoheb before Perkins singled and DeLucas found turf in right-center to bring in Reeder. Catholic scored five runs in the next three innings before DeLucas was hit by a pitch in the fifth, moved to second on a single by DeLucas and came around to score on a pair of fielder's choices.
Lycoming left the bases loaded four times in the game and 18 total, while Catholic, which had 16 hits, left nine on base.
Sam Fairhurst (5-1) earned the win, allowing nine hits and three runs in 5 2/3 innings. He struck out two. Junior Mason Drozal (1-3) pitched three innings, allowing eight hits and four runs. Junior Joel Inman tossed 3 1/3 innings of scoreless relief, allowing two hits and a walk.