YORK, Pa. — Elizabethtown College baseball traveled to York (Pa.) Monday afternoon looking to stop the bleeding of a four-loss week that saw its opponents average 10 runs per game. The Blue Jays could not curb the Spartans' bats, though, falling 13-5 in the non-league contest.

Only five runs were scored when the Jays (15-12) beat the Spartans (13-16), 3-2, at Kevin Scott Boyd Stadium back on March 13, but this game was at the complete opposite end of the spectrum.

Center fielder Steve Tretter greeted E-town starter Mark Minisce (2-2) with a home run in the first. Stiff winds favored the hitters and York made the Blue Jays pay with a pair of homers and four doubles.

Elizabethtown trailed 4-0 heading to the top of the fourth, but the Jays were able to build on the momentum of a three-hit third to score all of its runs and take its only lead.

Minisce walked, Kevin Berkheiser singled and Ryan Haggerty made it two base knocks in a row to load the bases for freshman Tyler Weary. Weary delivered his first extra base hit of the year with a double to left-center field that scored Minisce and Berkheiser. The two runs batted in were also career firsts for the E-town second baseman.

York's Joey Couch got Alex Holbert to strike out, but he was far from out of danger. Kyle Gable immediately followed Holbert with a single into center that scored Haggerty and trimmed the Spartan lead to 4-3. Dillon Tagle finished off the scoring with a two-out two-run single back through the box. Weary and Gable crossed the plate on Tagle's team-leading 34th hit of the season. The Jays' primary backstop had a pair of hits for his 10th multi-hit game this spring.

Its sights set on evening its home record at 6-6, York came back with two runs in the bottom of the fourth. Again, the Spartans turned to Tretter. He doubled following a hit by pitch to Dustin Worthman to put runners on second at third for Drew Frankenfield. Frankenfield's single drove in both runs, and accounted for two of his five RBIs in the game.

E-town found the going rough against Spartan relievers KC Beshore and Dan McNamara. The two hurlers combined on five innings of two-hit ball. Beshore went a pair of innings for his first win of the season, while McNamara pitched the final three for the save.

Tretter led York's 15-hit charge with a 4-for-4 game. He homered, doubled twice and scored three runs. Worthman scored a trio of runs on three hits for the Spartans, who split the season series with the Blue Jays.

Weary moved out of the lead-off spot to bat in the nine-hole Monday afternoon, and he responded with three hits in four at-bats. Three of the top four batters in E-town's lineup had two hits each. Gable was one of those players. Once on base, he went to work with his 12th steal of the year.

Minisce took the loss (2-2) in a five-and-two-third-inning outing. He gave up eight runs (four earned) on nine hits. The sophomore struck out four. Matt Ruth and Taras Letnaunchyn couldn't quiet the York bats, either, while Kyle Wilt retired the final two Spartan batters without issue.

E-town tries to break out of its funk again Wednesday at Stevenson. Game time is set for 3:30 p.m.