ANNVILLE, Pa. – The Lebanon Valley College baseball team made history on Friday afternoon as they hosted the first NCAA Tournament games at McGill Field in program history. The third-seeded Dutchmen fought through a three-hour rain delay in the second game of the day before the second-seeded Presidents of Washington and Jefferson College came away with a 5-1 victory in a closely contested game. 

The Presidents (36-8), who entered the Tournament ranked 24th in the D3Baseball.com Poll, scored first in the opening inning and held a 1-0 lead when the game was stopped in the bottom of the third inning with a runner on third and two outs. Following the delay, W&J scored the runner on third to take a 2-0 lead. The Dutchmen (30-15) fought back and scored in the fifth. The Presidents added an insurance run in the seventh and then two more in the eighth.

Inside the Box Score

• Ethan O'Loughlin led off the fifth inning with a single to right and scored three batters later when Ryan Murphy hit a single up the middle.
• Shane Stossel also had a hit in the inning to move O'Loughlin into scoring position.
• Jace Fetterman led off the second with a double off the left field wall. Conor Smith also had a leadoff single in the fourth.
• Kyle Kingsbury had three strikeouts in 2.2 innings of work before the weather delay.
• Tommy Moore Jr. relieved Kingsbury after the delay and pitched the rest of the game striking out three hitters.
• This was the first-ever meeting between the programs.

Who's Next

The Dutchmen will look to stay alive in the tournament on Saturday morning when they face Mitchell in an elimination game at 8:30 a.m. on McGill Field. Mitchell dropped a 7-1 decision to Rowan in the opening game of the day.

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