Drew University Athletics

LANCASTER, Pa. – Sophomore Frank Master broke school record for hits in a season, but the Drew University baseball team saw its season come to a close with a pair of losses in the Landmark Conference Championships on Friday at Penn Medicine Park, the home of the Lancaster Stormers professional baseball team of the Atlantic League.
 
The fifth-seeded Rangers (25-17) lost 12-5 to second-seeded Susquehanna during the day before dropping a 6-2 decision to third-seeded Elizabethtown under the lights.
 
Master finished 4-for-5 versus Susquehanna, and with his third hit of the game, he surpassed the former record of 61 hits set by Joe Henrikson C'06 in 2006.
 
Drew finished the season with the second-most games in team history, finishing just one victory shy of the team record set by the 2016 squad.                                          
 
The Rangers opened their game against the River Hawks by taking a 2-0 lead. Master led off with an infield single and went to second on an error before senior Nick Bisaccia bunted his way on. Sophomore Zach Maxwell singled home Master before a double steal and another error gave Drew its second run.
 
Susquehanna responded, however, scoring six runs in the bottom half and three more in the second against sophomore starter Nick Garbooshian (4-2) and sophomore reliever Nicholas Lo Vacco to make it 9-2. The River Hawks added two more in the fifth against Lo Vacco and sophomore reliever Brody Allyn.
 
The Rangers cut into the deficit in the top of the seventh, when junior Griffin Shenman walked, Master singled, and freshman Anthony Tetto lined a shot over the rightfield wall for his fourth home run of the season, making it 11-5. Susquehanna scored one in the bottom of the inning to set the final score.
 
Junior Nate Sica tossed a pair of scoreless innings to close it out on the mound for the Rangers.
 
Against Elizabethtown (28-15), the Blue Jays struck for two runs in the bottom of the first to go up 2-0 against freshman starter Mikey Sica (3-3). Elizabethtown added four more in the third against junior reliever Graham Ross to push its lead to 6-0.
 
Drew got on the scoreboard in the fourth, when freshman Nick Donofrio led off with a double and scored on a single by classmate Jordan Delude, who finished 2-for-4 with a double of his own. Junior Dylan Gallagher accounted for the Rangers' final run when he blasted a solo home run in the ninth, setting Drew's single-season school record for team home runs record at 30.

Junior Tyler Bell, the starting pitcher in the Rangers' playoff-opening win over Wilkes on Tuesday, worked 2 2/3 scoreless innings before sophomore Breckyn DeAngelis blanked Etown over the final three frames, allowing just one hit.