Pittsburgh, Pa. -- Duquesne scored the first seven runs and erupted for a season-high 17 hits to defeat the Youngstown State baseball team 12-7 on Tuesday afternoon at Duquesne Field.
     Casey Holland and Jacke Healey both homered for YSU, but those round-trippers accounted for two of the Penguins' five hits. Four of YSU's hits went for extra bases.
     Healey's was a two-run shot in the eighth, and Holland's was a solo blast in the fourth that put YSU on the board.
     Freshman Rick Devereaux went 3-for-5 with a homer and four RBIs for Duquesne, which entered the game hitting .241 and averaging 4.5 runs per contest.
     Chris Kimmith led off the bottom of the second with a home run for Duquesne, and the Dukes went on to score six runs on five hits in the inning. Anthony Manley drove in two of the runs on a bases-loaded single, and Devereaux's three-run blast with two outs put the Dukes ahead 6-0.
     Mark Tracy hit a solo home run off reliever Trent Wood in the third to make the score 7-0.
     The Penguins climbed their way back into the game by cutting the margin to 7-3 after the top of the fifth, but Duquesne scored three in the bottom half to go ahead 10-3. Following Holland's homer in the fourth, C.J. Morris had an RBI ground out and Eric Marzec hit an RBI triple in the fifth. Duquesne's three runs in the bottom of the inning came on just one hit - a bunt single.
     Healey's two-out, two-run homer in the eighth made the score 10-5, but Duquesne equaled that in the bottom half with a two-run homer by Andrew Dobson. YSU added two runs in the ninth on Marzec's RBI ground out and Joe Iacobucci's RBI single.
     Corey Vukovic was tagged with the loss for YSU, allowing the six runs in the second inning. Starter Michael Pelekanos threw three scoreless innings for Duquesne, and two other pitchers threw three innings apiece.
     YSU will play at Pittsburgh on Wednesday at 3 p.m.