Elizabethtown gets no-no, Perilli ties home run recordeliz

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ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. -- The Elizabethtown College baseball team recorded its first no-hitter since 2007 on Friday in a 12-1 win over Susquehanna. The Blue Jays smacked a season-high five home runs and Quinten Perilli tied the Etown career record with his 17th career home run. Seven starters for the Jays had multi-hit efforts and RBIs in the game.

Greg Zerbe earned his third win of the season with no hits, seven walks and three strikeouts in 4.0 innings. He allowed an unearned run in the first inning. Maximus Polun (2 IP, 2 K) and Justin Marraccini (1 IP, 1 K) pitched the final three innings.

Though they didn't record a hit in the game, Susquehanna (8-13, 4-4 Landmark) did manage a run in the first. A few defensive miscues led to the run as the River Hawks held a 1-0 lead after one.

That lead didn't last long as Mason Woolwine launched a solo shot to center to tie the game at 1-1.

Back-to-back two-out singles put two on for AJ Bednar in the third. Bryce Keller single to right center and RJ Agriss singled to short to put a runner in scoring position. Bednar delivered with a double to left, scoring Keller on the play and pushing Agriss to third. Both runners moved up and Agriss scored as a balk was ruled to make it 3-1. Woolwine knocked in his second RBI of the game with a base hit to left. EC led 4-1 after three.

The scoring continued for the Jays as they piled on four more in the fourth. Alex McClain led off the inning with a single to right center and then swiped second, one of three steals in the game for Elizabethtown (14-6, 7-2 Landmark). David Woolley hit his first career homer, a two-run shot, to center to push the lead to 6-1. Perilli followed with his sixth of the season and 17th of his career to jump into a first-place tie all-time. Agriss then made it three long balls in the inning, blasting a shot to left and upping the score to 8-1.

Maximus Polun entered in the fifth, who went four inning with three strikeouts. Polun sat down all six batters he faced over two innings, striking out two. Justin Marraccini entered in the seventh, and with an 11-run lead, put the side down in order to end the game. Marraccini struck out one.

Joe Limongelli joined the home run party in the fifth with a solo homer and the Jays scored three more in the sixth to go ahead 12-1 to put the 10-run rule into effect for Marraccini to finish it off.

Woolwine led with three hits while Woolley, Keller, Agriss, Bednar, Limongelli and McClain each had two hits apiece.

The no-hitter was the first for the program since not allowing a hit to Juniata on April 14, 2007.

The Blue Jays and River Hawks will play their scheduled doubleheader tomorrow at Boyd Stadium, with first pitch of game one now at 11 a.m