The Youngstown State baseball team used a strong starting performance from Matt Brosky and a six-run fifth inning to hold off Bethune-Cookman for a 10-9 victory on Sunday afternoon at Jackie Robinson Ballpark in Daytona Beach, Fla.

Youngstown State improves to 2-1 on the season while Bethune-Cookman falls to 1-2. The Penguins have now started the season 2-1 for the second time in the last three seasons.

Brosky, who picked up his first victory of the season, turned in a quality start as he struck out a career-high nine batters with one walk and allowed only one earned run over a career-high six innings pitched. In his first collegiate start, the Strongsville, Ohio, native recorded a strikeout in five of the six innings he was on the mound, and he had multiple punch outs in three different frames. Brosky struck out the side in the third inning, and he retired the side in order in the fourth and fifth.

Senior Steven D'Eusanio went 3-for-4 with a double and three runs scored while Braeden O'Shaughnessy went 3-for-4 with two runs batted in and scored another.

After the Penguins gave up a pair of runs in the bottom of the first, Andre Good's single to right field plated D'Eusanio to cut the Wildcats lead in half 2-1. Braeden O'Shaughnessy and D'Eusanio each posted one-out singles prior to Good's two-out base knock.

The Penguins exploded for a six-run fifth inning and added one in the sixth and seventh to take a 9-2 lead.

In the fifth, Lucas Nasonti and Dominick Bucko singled and Austin Earl walked to load the bases with no outs. Nasonti and Bucko each scored on a wild pitch to give YSU a 3-2 lead. A single by Braeden O'Shaughnessy scored Earl and a bases-loaded walk to Dylan Swarmer plated Padraig O'Shaughnessy to extend the Penguins' edge to 5-2. Trey Law's two-run single to center field scored D'Eusanio and Braeden O'Shaughnessy and put the Penguins up 7-2.

D'Eusanio reached on a two-out infield single and scored on an error by Bethune-Cookman's right fielder to give YSU an 8-2 edge in the top of the sixth. In the seventh, Law reached on an error by the left fielder and scored when Nasonti reached on an error in right field.

After the Wildcats plated three runs in the bottom half of the seventh to cut the lead to 9-5, D'Eusanio laced a two-out double to left field and Braeden O'Shaughnessy's single to right field scored pinch-runner Seth Lucero to give the Penguins a 10-5 advantage.

Bethune-Cookman made things interesting in the bottom of the ninth by scoring four runs on four hits and two Penguins' errors before Nathan Ball induced a ground out and struck out the final two batters to earn his second save in as many days.

The Penguins will take on Belmont in a four-game series on Feb. 25-27 at E.S. Rose Park in Nashville, Tenn.