GLENVILLE, W.Va. - Bren Taylor went 5-for-5 and drew a walk, and Ben Wilchacky tossed six shutout innings, leading Millersville to an 8-1 win over Mercyhurst Friday afternoon. 

Millersville (8-3) and Mercyhurst (1-1) are plenty used to playing in the postseason with 16 such meetings since 2008, but Friday's game was the first regular season game between the clubs since 2007 and just the fourth all-time. Friday's win boosted the Marauders to 8-3 while it was just the second game of the season for the Lakers. 

Even with three regular starters out with injuries, the Marauders totaled 18 hits. Taylor tallied four singles and a double and scored three times. Keegan Soltis, hitting No. 2 in the lineup, went 3-for-5 with a walk and drove in three runs. Sam Morris also produced three hits, one of which was a double, and he scored to runs. The Marauders also benefited from some Laker defensive miscues, scoring their first run in the third inning on an error. Millersville later added three more runs on wild pitches. 

Millersville led 4-0 entering the eighth and built the lead when Morris scored on a wild pitch after reaching on a one-out single. Soltis later drove in Taylor, who had been intentionally walked. The Marauders tacked on two more on four hits in the ninth.

 Wilchacky bounced back from his first loss of the season by match his longest outing of the season and tying a season-high in strikeouts. He allowed just four baserunners on two walks and two hits while striking out five. Wilchacky faced just three over the minimum through six innings as he induced double-play groundouts twice. Nate Young struck out four in three innings of work out of the bullpen. 

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• Millersville plays its second of three games in Glenville, W.Va. on Saturday, Feb. 25. Saturday's game is against another PSAC West team, Pitt-Johnstown.