YORK, Pa. - York used seven runs in the seventh inning to open up a three run game and top the Elizabethtown College baseball team, 16-7, in non-conference action Wednesday afternoon.

With the loss, the Blue Jays fall to 4-9 on the season, while the Spartans improve to 5-5.

Senior Tyler McGonigle went 4-4 with a double and a team-high two RBI. Sophomore Garrett Schwartzbeck finished the afternoon 3-5 with a double, an RBI, and two runs scored. 

Senior Austin Denlinger had a monster game for York, going 4-6 with three doubles, two RBI, and four runs scored.

Trailing 5-1 after two innings, Etown began to chip away at the Spartans' lead, starting with sophomore Bryce Keller reaching on a fielder's choice to plate senior Joey Thomas from third. The Blue Jays closed the deficit to two in the fourth inning, as graduate student Andrew Fisher laid down a sacrifice bunt to score Schwartzbeck and make the score 5-3.

Etown brought it all the way back to a one run game in the top of the fifth, as senior Eamon McCoubrey stepped in as a pinch hitter and singled to left field with two outs. After advancing to second on a wild pitch, sophomore AJ Bednar knock a single to right center field, scoring McCoubrey and making the score 5-4.

York, however, took back the momentum, outscoring the Blue Jays 10-3 over the rest of the game, including a seven run seventh, to tally its fifth win of the season, 16-7.

Graduate student Joe Sarich (0-1) took the loss, allowing three runs one hit, striking out two and walking three. 

Senior AJ Vincenzi (2-1) went six innings and allowed three earned runs on eight hits and struck out one for York.

Elizabethtown returns home on Saturday, March 19 for its first Landmark Conference series of the season against Scranton. Opening pitch of the Saturday doubleheader is set for 12 p.m.