Box Score The Lancaster Bible baseball team snapped its season-opening four-game losing streak with an 11-5 victory over Penn St. Schuylkill on Wednesday in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Senior Matt Taliercio hit for the cycle and fellow senior Micah McClay pitched seven strong innings as the Chargers will head back North with a win from Myrtle Beach.

Like they did in three of the five games in South Carolina, the Chargers scored early and held an early lead. Erich Carroll singled home Taliercio in the first inning and Caleb Mayer followed him with a single that scored Carroll who had advanced to second on his single. Nate Burns scored on a passed ball in the second inning as Lancaster Bible extended its lead to 3-0.

As had happened in the previous games however, the opposing team got runs back, as the Nittany Lions scored twice in the top half of the third to cut the deficit to 3-2. Unlike previous games, the Chargers responded as they scored four times in the bottom of the fourth. Taliercio singled home Justin Taylor and Burns to make it 5-2. After Taliercio advanced to second on a stolen base, Carroll came up big again as he singled home another run. Mayer finished off the scoring as he tripled home Carroll, giving the Chargers a 7-2 lead.

Penn St. Schuylkill got one run back in the fifth, but a Ryan Hartline single scored Brian Niedergall and Lancaster Bible had restored its five-run lead. Taliercio homered to begin the bottom of the sixth on a shot that some on the team say has not landed yet.

Taliercio completed the cycle in the eighth when he hit an RBI triple that scored Nate Long. Mayer came up a batter later and drove in Taliercio on a SAC fly. The Nittany Lions got a two-run home run from Chris Kreider to produce the final score, but did nothing else in the inning.

McClay was brilliant on the mound as he didn't let the errors the Chargers committed get to him. He scattered seven hits, while striking out seven and walking two. Three runs crossed the plate during his seven innings, but none were earned. Junior Mitch Kumher came in to pitch the final two innings.

Taliercio finished the day 4-for-5 with four runs scored and four RBI, while Carroll was 3-for-5 with two runs and two RBI. Kody Godsey, Taylor, Mayer and Burns also had two hits for the Chargers who broke out of their slump with 18 hits.

Lancaster Bible (1-4) returns to the diamond next Wednesday, March 19 when they host Baptist Bible for a doubleheader. First pitch is scheduled for 1 p.m.