WINCHESTER, Va. – Rust didn't seem to be an issue for the Elizabethtown College baseball team, which put up a two-spot in its first at-bats of the 2011 regular season Sunday afternoon. The Blue Jays would not be able to hang onto the early edge, however, as No. 6/7 Shenandoah, playing in its fifth game of the season, rallied for a 10-4 win at Bridgeforth Field.

Dillon Tagle, an All-Commonwealth Conference Second Team pick a season ago, got things started for Elizabethtown (0-1) in the top of the first. Tagle's base knock was followed by successive singles from Matt Reade and Brian Verdelli. Tagle scored on a passed ball after Reade's single and Verdelli's hit plated Reade for the Blue Jays' first RBI of the season. All three first inning hits came with two outs up on the board.

Joey Donofrio's doubled and later scored in the bottom of the inning on E-town starter Wayne Leonard's (0-1) wild pitch.

In the second, Tyler Clark led off the inning with a single that marked his first collegiate hit, but the Jays could not push anyone across. The Hornets (5-0) took advantage in the home half of the inning with a Kevin Brashears two-run home run. Mike Minch also registered an RBI fielder's choice as Shenandoah took a 4-2 lead.

Leonard gave way to Todd Leister in the third following a Cory Nelson leadoff double. Leister would get out of the inning unscathed and do a solid job on the mound giving up just one run in three innings of work. The junior from Stanhope, N.J. faced 11 batters allowing three hits and striking out four.

The two sides traded runs in the fourth. Jake Hoffstein's RBI groundout scored Anthony Heaps in the top half of the inning, but Shenandoah answered with Brashears' RBI single to hold a two-run lead at 5-3. Brashears finished the afternoon 2-for-3 with three RBIs.

Shenandoah broke things open in the sixth against E-town's third pitcher of the day, Rob Cressman. Donofrio struck again by belting a two-out, three-run homer to right that put the home side up 8-3. The Hornets would tack on another before the inning subsided, carrying a 9-3 lead to the late innings.

Joey Seremula pitched a scoreless seventh for the Jays.

The Jays got some pop in the top of the ninth when Tim Rosser drove a Jonathan Best offering out of the park for E-town's final bit of offense.

Vince Claudio (1-0) pitched 5 2/3 innings to pick up the win for SU. The sophomore allowed three runs (two earned) and struck out four.

Clark, Anthony Heaps and Tagle all registered two hits apiece for E-town, which slapped out nine on the afternoon.

E-town will return to the diamond next Sunday when it travels to Bridgewater for a doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m.