MADISON, N.J. - In what started as a classic pitchers duel featuring one of the best career outings for senior Teddy Hoxie, the Drew University baseball team stumbled late and fell 6-1 to Elizabethtown College in the rubber match of its three-game Landmark Conference series on Sunday afternoon at Doc Young Field.

Despite frigid temperatures, both Hoxie and his Blue Jay counterpart Kyle Mulville remained sharp as they held the opposition scoreless through the first four innings and surrendered only one run each. Hoxie, who received a no-decision, was highly efficient through 6 1/3 innings of work. He tossed four 1-2-3 innings, allowed just two hits, and recorded a career-high nine strikeouts. He picked up back-to-back Ks to escape trouble in the fifth and hold Etown to one unearned run as the Blue Jays took a 1-0 lead.

Junior first baseman Jake Welsh drove in Drew's lone run of the day when he broke up Mulville's shutout in the bottom of the sixth, driving a first-pitch fastball over the leftfield fence to tie things up at 1-1. It was the first collegiate homer for Welsh.

The Blue Jays pushed across the go-ahead runs in the top of the eighth on a two-run homer from Robbie Bertucio, then tacked on three unearned runs in the ninth.

The Rangers put up a rally in the bottom of the ninth after freshmen Matt Myers and Dallas Lorenzetti each reached with two outs, but Mulville escaped with a pair of groundouts to earn the complete-game win. 

Junior Anthony Diaz finished 2-for-4 to finish with eight hits over the three-game series. Lorenzetti went 2-for-3 with a double.

Sophomores Jake Schoffelen and Brian Lavelle came on in relief and threw 1 1/3 innings apiece.

The Rangers continue their home stand on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. when they host Rutgers-Newark in a non-conference tilt.