MADISON, N.J. – The Drew University baseball team split a doubleheader with Landmark Conference co-leader Elizabethtown College on Saturday on Senior Day at Doc Young Field at Lonnstrom Stadium.
 
The Rangers (21-16, 13-10 LC) won the opener 8-5 before dropping a 15-5 decision in seven innings in the nightcap.
 
Drew now enters the final day of the regular season in fifth place in the Landmark Conference standings, trailing Susquehanna University by one game and leading Wilkes University by two games in the win column. The top-five teams in the conference qualify for the postseason tournament.
 
The Rangers recognized their eight seniors before the start of the game.
 
Junior Ryan Jones reached a milestone for Drew, recording his 100th hit with a single in his first at-bat of the day.
 
Senior Anthony Diaz Jr. turned in a big day for the Rangers, finishing 6-for-9 while providing a clutch go-ahead single in the eighth inning of the opener, when the Rangers scored four runs after trailing 5-4.
 
Fellow senior Nate Miller celebrated Senior Day in style as well, blasting two home runs in the opener while going 5-for-7 on the day.
 
The opening game was an entertaining matchup that featured four lead changes. Miller tied the game at 2-2 when he led off the bottom of the fourth with his first homer, then went deep in his very next at bat, leading off the sixth with another solo shot to put the Rangers up 3-2. Freshman Aiden Mitchell followed with a hustling triple, then scored on a double from sophomore Kyle Johnson to give Drew a 4-2 lead.
 
In the meantime, junior Matt Colucci held the Blue Jays (26-10, 15-6 LC) to just two runs over the first six innings. However, Etown came back with three runs in the top of the fifth to go up 5-4.
 
The Rangers scored four runs in their big eighth inning, when nine batters came to the plate. Jones got things started with a double before junior pinch-hitter Raiden Yost was intentionally walked. Junior Dallas Lorenzetti then walked to lead the bases before Diaz delivered a single into right. The bases cleared to give the Rangers a 7-5 lead when the ball dribbled past the rightfielder, and Diaz went on to score on a wild pitch to set the final score.

Junior Connor Ruscansky came on to pitch with two outs in the seventh, and he went on to fire 2 1/3 scoreless innings, yielding just one hit while striking out two to earn the victory.
 
Diaz and Miller collected three hits apiece in the opener while Mitchell and Jones had a pair of base knocks each.
 
In the second game, Elizabethtown took a 2-0 first-inning lead before the Rangers scored three runs on five singles in the bottom of the second, highlighted by a two-run single from Diaz and a run-scoring single from Miller that made it 3-2.
 
Sophomore starter Brandon Kobryn held the Jays to a pair of runs through the first four innings before the visitors broke it open with 10 runs off three pitchers in the fifth to go ahead 12-3.
 
Drew tacked on a pair of runs in the sixth, but Elizabethtown scored three in the seventh to bring the 10-run rule into effect at the end of the inning.
 
Diaz went 3-for-4 with a double in the nightcap while senior Anthony Hernandez, Miller, and senior Billy Coleman cracked two hits each.
 
The two sides conclude their season series on Sunday with a single game starting at noon.