YORK, PA – The first-place Lebanon Valley Dutchmen used five home runs to down the York College baseball squad 15-1 in the opening game of a three-game MAC Commonwealth weekend series. The Dutchmen scored multiple runs in three different innings including a sixth-run fifth that put the game away. 
Dutchmen starter Tommy Moore went eight strong innings, allowing one unearned run as he improved to 5-0.
 
Record: York 17-15 (12-7 MACC); Lebanon Valley 19-14-1 (15-4 MACC)
Runs: York 1; Lebanon Valley 15
Hits: York 6; Lebanon Valley 18
Errors: York 3; Lebanon Valley 1
WP: Tommy Moore (5-0); LP: Zach Reed (2-5)
 
How It Happened
• The Dutchmen wasted little time in jumping on top of the Spartans in the first inning. Pete Botbyl led off with a sharp single to right. Nico Santoro blasted a two-run homer to left to quickly put LVC up 2-0. After a pop up, a single and a strikeout, Dave Mangold launched a two-run blast to left, pushing the lead to 4-0 after a half-inning of play.
• In the second, Botbyl added to the lead with an opposite field home run to left, making it 5-0 Dutchmen through an inning and a half.
• While the Dutchmen's offense was clicking the Spartans were struggling. York got lead-off single from Lucas Prendergast in the third. He moved to second on a ground out and to third on a fly out to center but was stranded at third to end the inning. York would register just two hits through three innings.
• The top of the fifth started off innocently enough with a fly out to right and a pop up to short. Then the wheels came off for the Green and White. The Dutchmen got a run on a wild pitch then another two-run homer from Mangold to make it 8-0. A two-run Spartan error increased the lead to 10-0 and the Dutchmen added another run on a Santoro RBI double. The Dutchmen got six runs on five hits with three errors and left the bases loaded in the inning.
• The Dutchmen continued to pour it on in the top of the eighth as Andrew Miles hit a two-out, three run homer to left for a 14-0 lead.
• York broke up the shutout in the eighth with the help of the LVC defense. Robby Elzinga singled and moved to second on a Gabe Trevena single. Michael Tinneny lined out to center and Elzinga moved to third. Trevena headed to second on the play and the Dutchmen airmailed the throw attempting to nail Trevena, allowing Elzinga to trot home with York's lone run.
• LVC closed out the scoring in the ninth as they scored on a wild pitch to provide for the final 15-1 score.
 
Spartan Offensive Leaders
Lucas Prendergast: 2-for-3, SB
Robby Elzinga: 1-for-4, 1 run
Gabe Trevena: 1-for-4
Michael Tinneny: 1-for-3, BB
Chris Betler: 1-for-4
 
Spartan Pitching
Zach Reed: 4.2 IP, 11 hits, 10 runs, 8 ER, 3 K, 1 BB, 1 WP
Cade Hollingsworth: 0.1 IP, 1 hit, 1 run, 0 ER, 2 BB
Dawson Rightenour: 3.0 IP, 4 hits, 3 ER, 1 K, 1 BB
Sam Gardner: 1.0 IP, 2 hits, 1 ER, 1 WP
 
Spartan Notes
The Spartans are now 26-12 all-time against Lebanon Valley as the Dutchmen have won two straight in the series … the Spartans and Dutchmen have met in the last two MAC Commonwealth championship series with York capturing the title in 2021 while the Dutchmen earned the crown in 2022 … LVC now has a two-game lead over Alvernia while the Spartans are one back of the Golden Wolves in third … York is now 8-6 at home … the Spartans have given up 33 runs in the first inning, 34 in the second and 30 in the third which represents 45% of their total runs allowed for the season … the Spartans are 0-7 when allowing double digits in runs for the year … freshman Lucas Prendergast extended his current hit streak to seven, the third highest total of the year for the Spartans … Michael Tinneny extended his on-base streak to ten, one short of Robby Elzinga's team high of 11 earlier this year … Prendergast's on-base streak is currently at seven … the Spartans were held to one run for the fifth time this year … the Spartans did not have an extra base hit for the third time this year … York's three errors led to three more unearned runs as they have now surrendered 47 unearned runs in 32 games .. York now has 50 errors for the year.
 
Up Next
The two teams resume the series on Saturday morning in Annville, PA. The start of game one has been moved up to 11:00 am as the teams will look to beat the impending weather forecasted for Saturday afternoon.