ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. — The bats were hot once again for the Elizabethtown College baseball team Wednesday afternoon in a 14-7 non-conference victory over Susquehanna at Kevin Scott Boyd Stadium. Steve Motika hit a three-run double and three other players knocked in two runs en route to a 14-hit outing. It's the fourth time in the last seven games that the Blue Jays have eclipsed the 10-hit mark.

Susquehanna built a 2-0 lead after its at-bats in the third inning. The Crusaders (7-12) used an RBI single from Nick Testo in the second, and a run-scoring double by Nick Ferlise in the third to gain the edge. Both runs came against Zack Mills. Mills relieved starter Vaclav Hasik, who left the game after one inning when he was struck by a ball off a Susquehanna bat.

Mills picked up the win Wednesday, performing admirably on short notice. The sophomore from Mifflintown went four innings allowing three earned runs and striking out two.

The Jays (7-9) made a winner of Mills by scoring five runs in the fourth inning. Anthony Heaps was hit by a Matt Lottes pitch to start the inning, before Matt Reade singled to put two men on with nobody out. Motika stepped in as a pinch-hitter after Pat Mulligan reached on an error that loaded the bases. Motika, who has split time behind the plate and at first, took full advantage of his plate appearance by hammering a double that brought in all three E-town runners.

SU got a run back in the fifth off of Mills when a Ferlise ground out scored Ty Raubenstine. Any hopes the Crusaders had of getting back in the game once they made it 6-3 were dashed in the bottom of the sixth. It was then that E-town erupted for five more runs to go up 11-3. Reade, Mulligan and Andrew Gordon all collected RBI base knocks in the inning.

Greg Katz, who spelled Mills and cruised through the SU order in the six, ran into trouble in the seventh. The Crusaders picked up four runs to pull within 11-7, but the Jays answered with three runs in the home half of the seventh to keep SU at bay.

Reade left the park with three more hits to his name Wednesday. He has now got 20 hits this season and has pulled himself to within one of the team lead, shared by Motika and Kyle Gable. Heaps, Dillon Tagle and Kevin Berkheiser all had two knocks apiece. Andrew Gordon was 1-for-4 with a pair of RBIs and two runs scored for the Jays.

Susquehanna managed just seven hits off of five different E-town pitchers. Erik Tuomisto led off the seventh inning with a pinch-hit home run for the Crusaders, who got their only multi-hit game from Ferlise.

Jake Hoffstein and Todd Leister combined to throw the last three innings for E-town. Leister struck out two in a perfect ninth inning.

The Blue Jays get set for a Commonwealth Conference weekend set with Arcadia. E-town travels to Glenside Friday afternoon for a game, before hosting a doubleheader Saturday at noon.