Cole Luzins went 2-for-3 with six RBI including a three-run home run, Peter Yarem went a perfect 3-for-3 with four runs scored, and Nick Berger added three hits and an RBI for the Susquehanna University Baseball team as the River Hawks bounced back from a 6-1 defeat in game one to post a 12-9 victory in game two Saturday afternoon in a Landmark Conference doubleheader matchup with Elizabethtown at Kevin Scott Boyd Stadium in Elizabethtown.
Elizabethtown (10-15 Overall, 4-5 Landmark), was able to score five runs in the first two innings of game one to take a lead they would not relinquish.
Susquehanna (12-17, 6-5), tallied a run in the top of the third inning when Tom Giaimo plated Anthony Dombrowski, but the River Hawk bats were held silent for the rest of the game and the Blue Jays captured a 6-1 victory.
Andrew Russell threw a shutout inning in relief and five players recorded a hit for Susquehanna.
The Blue Jays were able to ride the momentum of their game one win into game two by scoring the first three runs of the game in the bottom of the second inning.
Tom Giaimo drove in Justin Miller on a sacrifice fly in the third inning, but Elizabethtown answered with two more runs in the bottom half of the inning to take a 5-1 lead.
In the top of the fourth inning with Berger on second base after a leadoff double, Yarem drove him home with an RBI single.
Three batters later, with Yarem and Dombrowski on base with two outs, Luzins sent a three-run home run over the left field wall to tie the game at five. The homer was his sixth of the season.
In the sixth inning, Luzins knocked in Yarem with a double to give the River Hawks their first lead of the game at 6-5.
Elizabethtown answered with three runs in the bottom of the inning to retake the lead, but Susquehanna was able to score four times in the top of the seventh to take the lead for good.
After a leadoff double by Ben Burman, Steve Lorenz tripled to deep center field to cut the Blue Jays lead to 8-7. Berger followed that with an RBI single to tie the game.
With one out and Berger on second base (Yarem walk), Dombrowski hit a go-ahead RBI single to give the River Hawks the lead. The team would tack on another run later in the inning when Luzins was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded.
Reliever Brendan Damiano would shut down the Elizabethtown bats in the seventh and eighth innings before Susquehanna added two insurance runs in the top of the ninth.
Miller had an RBI single in the inning to score Yarem and Luzins picked up his sixth RBI of the afternoon on a sacrifice fly to give the River Hawks a 12-8 lead.
The Blue Jays scored once in the bottom of the ninth but it was not enough as Susquehanna won the second half of the double-header, 12-9.
The River Hawks pounded out 14 hits in game 2, including multi-hit games by Luzins, Lorenz, Berger, Yarem, and Dombrowski. Damiano picked up the win as he threw 3 1/3 innings in relief.
Susquehanna finishes its weekend series at Elizabethtown tomorrow when they take on the Blue Jays at noon.
