PAINESVILLE, Ohio - It may not have been pretty, but the 14th-ranked Mercyhurst University baseball team won again on Wednesday afternoon.

Mercyhurst allowed a season-high ten runs, a season-high tying eleven hits, and committed a season-high tying four errors, but still managed to post a 12-10 victory at Lake Erie College. With the victory, the Lakers improved to 20-1 overall while the Storm dropped to 9-7 on the season.

The Lakers got huge contributions at the plate from senior Angel Martinez, redshirt senior Ryan Siegel, and freshman Daniel Elliot as the trio combined for ten of the team's sixteen hits and combined to drive in seven runs on the afternoon.

Elliot, making his first collegiate start, served as the team's designated hitter on Wednesday. He responded by going 3-for-5 with his first collegiate home run and a career-high six runs batted in.

Mercyhurst set the tone with four runs on five hits in the top of the first inning. Junior Brendan Cox drove home the first run with an RBI single to right center to give the Lakers a 1-0 lead. Junior Hank Morrison made it 2-0 with a run-scoring single while junior Austin Alonge followed with a two-run single to finish the scoring in the inning.

But, redshirt senior righthander Jon Corbi could not hold the lead as the Storm responded with four runs in the bottom half to knot the game at 4-4. The big blow was a one-out, grand slam home run from Aaron Lindgren.

After the Lakers were held off the board in the top of the second, Lake Erie scored three more times in the second to take a 7-4 advantage. Corbi walked the leadoff hitter and then was pulled for junior Mike Schnurr. The Storm's Louie Peterlin had the big hit - a two-run single.

Corbi surrendered five runs on three hits and three walks in one inning of work.

Elliot brought the Lakers to within a run with a two-run single in the top of the third inning, cutting the Lake Erie lead to 7-6.

Mercyhurst took the lead for good in the top of the fifth inning with four runs on three hits and three costly Lake Erie errors. Alonge reached on an error to start the inning and then advanced to second when sophomore Cameron Balego also reached on an error. Elliot put the Lakers ahead, 9-7, with a three-run bomb. Cox drove home the other run of the inning when he reached on Lake Erie's third error of the inning.

Elliot gave the Lakers an 11-6 lead in the top of the sixth inning with a run-scoring single - his sixth RBI of the afternoon. Siegel provided the final Laker run with a solo home run in the top of the seventh.

Lake Erie made things interesting down the stretch, but junior relievers Ben Nolan and Jake Hall danced around three Mercyhurst errors over the last two innings to keep the visitors in front. Hall allowed an unearned run in the bottom of the ninth for his sixth save of the season and his third over the team's last three games.

After a rocky second inning, Schnurr settled down and was credited with the victory, moving his record to 2-0 on the season. He allowed two runs on seven hits in five innings, walking one and striking out two. Nolan allowed two runs (one earned) in the seventh and eighth innings.

Siegel went 4-for-6 with two runs scored and an RBI. Martinez had three hits in five trips and also scored a pair of runs. Alonge also had three hits in five at bats and drove in a pair of runs.

Lindgren, like Elliot, had six runs batted in for Lake Erie.

Mercyhurst will return to conference action on Friday, April 3 and Saturday, April 4 with home-and-home doubleheaders against PItt-Johnstown. The teams will meet in Johnstown on Friday and then will play in Erie on Saturday. Both twinbills are slated to begin at 1:00 p.m.