ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. — Elizabethtown College baseball hoped to head into the holiday weekend with momentum on its side and a stranglehold on the top of the Commonwealth Conference. What the Blue Jays got, however, was entirely different. Lebanon Valley picked up a regular season sweep of E-town by scoring 10 runs in each game of a 10-1, 10-0 doubleheader at Kevin Scott Boyd Stadium Friday afternoon.

A weekend of promise was spoiled by the Flying Dutchmen in all facets. LVC pounded the ball again Friday and outscored E-town 28-1 over the three game set. E-town's offense, which scored 52 runs in five wins last week, couldn't figure out any of Lebanon Valley's three starters. The Blue Jays (15-11, 5-4 CC) managed 16 hits in 23 innings during the series.

It didn't take long for LVC to put a damper on the party Friday. Ryan Schwartz led off with a double and scored as part of Aaron Mills' two-run homer off Rob Cressman. Cressman brushed off the tough inning by retiring the next nine Flying Dutchmen in order.

Following a pair of Derek Brousseau strikeouts in the bottom of the fourth, E-town finally got something going. Pat Mulligan walked and Matt Reade doubled to put a pair in scoring position. Center fielder Kevin Berkheiser legged out a chopper down to third that brought Mulligan across to cut the LVC lead to 3-1.

Jordan Witmer and his Lebanon Valley teammates didn't even wait an inning to get the run —and more— back. Lee Webber, hitless in nine at-bats coming into the series, drove the first of his two doubles in the game to the wall in left center. Walks by the next two LVC batters set up a bases loaded situation for Brousseau, but he was unable to capitalize with a fielder's choice that put out Webber at home. Witmer worked a 3-1 count in his favor before hammering a ball off the wall in left for a three-run triple that increased the visitors' lead to 6-1.

Kristopher Davis took over for Cressman at that point. Davis was greeted by a RBI single from Mills that scored Witmer.

Lebanon Valley scored three more runs in the top of the seventh, adding to E-town's woes. The Blue Jays collected their most hits in the series' three games with seven in game one. Reade recorded two hits in three at-bats, including his first double of the year.

Brousseau earned the complete game win by allowing seven hits, walking three and striking out two. Cressman fell to 4-2. He struck out four Flying Dutchmen, but had seven earned runs charged to him. Davis was touched for six hits and three earned runs in two and a third innings.

Elizabethtown tried to salvage at least a game from the series by handing the ball to freshman Taras Letnaunchyn in game two. Even he, of an 0.31 earned run average coming into the game, couldn't slow down the hot-swinging Lebanon Valley bats.

Six hits and five runs went up on LVC's (15-13, 6-6 CC) side of the scoreboard before Letnaunchyn and the Jays could get three outs. Catcher Tom Filer delivered the big blow, with a two-run double down the left field line.

Winds gusting out to left field at nearly 20 miles per hour turned many balls off the bat that looked to be routine into threats. Witmer, the third batter for LVC in the top of the second, took full advantage when he sent a Letnaunchyn pitch out of the park for a two-run shot that made it 7-0.

Letnaunchyn's day came to a close after the Witmer homer and left the freshman with a 1.76 ERA. He allowed five earned runs and seven hits in his shortest start of the season. To put into perspective how polarizing the performances of these two teams were this weekend, one needed to look no further than Letnaunchyn's line. He allowed only 15 hits in four previous starts this year, before giving up nearly half that many in a pair of innings.

The Flying Dutchmen tacked on a pair against reliever Jake Hoffstein in the third and one more in the fourth.

Elizabethtown got five hits from five different batters. Berkheiser was 1-for-1 with a double and a walk. Kyle Gable also doubled and reserve outfielder Mike Stobbe picked up his first hit of the season with a seventh inning single.

Corey Cinicola, winless in four starts prior to Friday, shutout the Blue Jays for the complete game win. Cinicola allowed only eight baserunners with the five hits and three walks. He sat down four Jays by way of strikeout.

The sweep and series win were firsts for LVC against the Jays since 2002.

E-town continues its season Monday with a non-league game at York at 3:30 p.m. The two teams met back on March 13 in the Blue Jays home opener, a game EC won 3-2.