The Lancaster Bible baseball team opened its 2016 spring break trip with a 12-3 victory over Penn St. Schuylkill on Sunday night in Myrtle Beach, S.C. The victory improves the Chargers to 2-3 this season, while the Nittany Lions dropped to 2-3.

How it Happened: The Chargers jumped on Schuylkill in the top of the first as the visitors plated three runs. Justin Taylor, Will Welsh and Josh Mayer had three straight run-producing hits, as Taylor and Mayer each doubled. Lancaster Bible starter Zack Leonard held the Nittany Lion bats at bay and the Chargers' offense gave him four more runs of support in the third inning as Taylor doubled again, scoring Braden Elliott. Sophomore JJ Sanchez singled later in the inning as Mayer and Hunter Gray scored to make it 7-0.

An Adam Cohick double in the fifth scored Mayer and made it 8-0 and Taylor and Welsh followed with back-to-back home runs in the sixth to move the lead to 10-0. Taylor smacked his second home run of the game in the ninth inning to make it 12-0, before the Nittany Lions scored three times in the bottom of the ninth to produce the final score of 12-3.

Inside the Box Score: Taylor finished 4-for-6 with four runs batted in and four runs scored...He has three home runs this season and leads the Chargers with a .421 batting average...Welsh went 3-for-6 as he scored twice and drove in two runs...Mayer also had three hits and scored twice...Cohick finished 2-for-5 and Sanchez reached base three times...Leonard earned his first win of the season as he threw five scoreless innings and allowed just four hits while striking out four...Four relief pitchers pitched the final four innings and gave up just one hit, including Gabe Yoder who threw two innings and struck out two and did not allow a hit.

Up Next: Lancaster Bible continues its spring break trip on Monday when the Chargers play a doubleheader against Staten Island at 12:30 p.m...For updates on each game, please check the Lancaster Bible Athletics Twitter feed, @LBCathletics.