For four innings Tuesday night, Jefferson continued to look like a reborn baseball team.

Then came the fifth frame.

Des Moines East scored five runs in the fifth, added three more in the sixth and crushed the J-Hawks, 11-3, at the Jefferson diamond.

The loss dropped Jefferson to 5-13 and was a bitter disappointment after playing some solid baseball in a doubleheader loss to Linn-Mar.

"It seems like once it goes downhill, it keeps going downhill," said Jefferson right fielder Austin Goodell, who had two of the J-Hawks' six hits, including a run-scoring double in the first inning. "The team started out well, but we didn't continue our momentum. Once we stopped we couldn't get it back together."

Jordan Dee's two-run double in the third inning gave Jefferson a 3-1 lead.

East (10-6) scored two unearned runs in the fourth inning to tie the game. Kyle Thomson's two-run home run in the fifth inning broke the tie and the Scarlet tacked on three more runs in the frame for an 8-3 lead.

Colby Carmichael's two-run double highlighted East's three-run sixth inning.

Eighth grader Spencer Van Scoyoc was the losing pitcher for Jefferson. He gave up five hits, walked five and allowed six runs in 4 1/3 innings. Only three of the runs were earned.

Jefferson pitchers issued eight bases on balls, hit a batter and the defense had four errors.

The J-Hawks play a Mississippi Valley Conference doubleheader Friday at Dubuque Wahlert.

DM EAST (11)
Connor Enochs, p-2b, 3 0 0 0, Justin Lippold, cr, 0 0 0 0, Dylan Hernandez, ph, 1 0 0 0, Malique Ziegler, 2b-rf, 4 0 0 0, Isaiah Green, ph, 1 0 0 0, Shane Sullivan, 3b, 3 1 1 0, Jeremy Bos, ph, 1 0 0 0, Robert Hansen, rf-p, 3 2 1 0, Austin Robbins, p, 0 0 0 0, Kyle Thomson, 1b, 4 2 2 2, Colby Carmichael, cf-p, 4 3 2 2, Blake Cunningham, lf, 3 0 1 1, Gage Allison, ph, 0 0 0 1, Austin Bellis, c, 1 2 0 0, Tobias Tyler, ph, 1 0 0 0, Xavier James, ss, 1 1 1 1, Lippold, ph, 0 0 0 0. Totals 30 11 8 7.

JEFFERSON (3)
Dylan Jellison, 2b-ss, 4 1 1 0, Jordan Dee, 1b, 4 0 1 2, Chance Tiedtke, lf, 3 1 1 0, Austin Goodell, rf, 3 0 2 1, Colten Jourdan, dh, 3 0 1 0, Ky Kramer, ss-p, 0 0 0 0, Christian Knox, cf-2b, 4 0 0 0, Sam Techau, 3b, 4 0 0 0, Spencer Van Scoyoc, p, 2 0 0 0, Dylan Wright, p-cf, 1 0 0 0, Ben Koering, c, 1 0 0 0, Layne Sullivan, cr, 0 1 0 0. Totals 29 3 6 3.

DM East         010 253 0 --  11  8  2
Jefferson       120 000 0 --   3   6  4

Enochs, Hansen (4), Robbins (6), Carmichael (7) and Bellis. Van Scoyoc, Wright (5), Kramer (6) and Koering. W - Hansen. L - Van Scoyoc. 2B - Hansen, Carmichael, Dee, Goodell. HR - Thomson. SB - Enochs, James, LSullivan.