YORK, Pa. -- The Elizabethtown College women's basketball team ended the game at York (Pa.) by outscoring the Spartans 25-15 in the fourth quarter to break away and win their fourth game of the season. The Blue Jays were led by Mikayla Ruth, who scored a season-high in points. Lydia Lawson and Veronica Christ were also in double figures for E-town in the win.

The game featured 11 lead changes with two coming in the opening minutes. Molly Day provided the first basket of the game on a layup after grabbing the board on her own initial miss. Christ tied the game on a made three a few possessions later as Elizabethtown (4-1) was down 4-1, but with one shot, were level at 4-4. Lawson then got out on the fast break after bringing in the defensive rebound on Day's missed shot attempt and E-town led 6-4 with just over two minutes gone from the first quarter.

It was a one-possession game until Ruth's layup pushed E-town ahead by four, 11-7. The Spartans regained the lead with a 9-0 run through the latter portion of the opening quarter. Ruth's three-pointer broke the Jays' scoreless drought and by the end of the first, it was 18-15 in favor of YCP.

Elizabethtown limited York to just nine second-quarter points on 3-for-13 shooting. Ruth and Christ were a combined 4-for-5 in the quarter to account for 11 of the Blue Jays' 17 second-quarter points as they took back the lead, which came on Christ's jumper 43 seconds into the second stanza. At the other end following the lead change, Emlet hauled in one of her team-high nine rebounds and sent E-town the other way. Christ finished off the possession with a layup inside to increase the lead to three.

The Jays couldn't extend the lead to more than five, that was, until Ruth's second trey of the game that came with 1:09 left in the half. It was 32-26 in favor of EC at that point. They held a 32-27 advantage at the intermission.

After Emma Powell's jumper made it a seven-point game early, YCP got hot in the third quarter and erased the deficit by the beginning of the fourth. Five of the six made shots in the third for the Spartans were from beyond the arc as they outscored Elizabethtown, 19-14. The Jays were up by three, but Alana Bortner's second three of the quarter tied things up with only a second on the clock.

The teams spent nearly half the fourth quarter within a possession of one another, but a 7-0 run by Elizabethtown over a 1:08 span in the fourth put the Blue Jays ahead by six, capped off by Lawson's trey. Roni Isenberg made good on a layup down low and Emlet made it consecutive buckets inside prior to Lawson's three.

Though York was able to answer, E-town answered back. The Spartans were within four after the Lawson three on Kayla Ferris' layup, but Christ responded with another three for Elizabethtown. York split a pair of free throws, and there was Christ again to provide more of a buffer for the Jays with another basket. Ruth gave EC their first double-digit lead of the game with 1:13 to go. It was as high as 11 after Christ knocked down a pair of foul shots. Lawson concluded the game with a pair of her own for the final margin of victory, a 71-61 win for Elizabethtown.

Ruth (22), Lawson (14), and Christ (14) combined for 50 points and collectively shot 6-for-9 from behind the arc. Lawson also grabbed eight rebounds while Isenberg had seven and E-town ended the game with a 44-40 advantage in total rebounds.

Elizabethtown opens Landmark Conference play this weekend with a matchup at Moravian on Saturday, December 1. Game time is scheduled for 2 p.m.