Farmville, Va. – Youngstown State scored eight runs in the top of the fourth inning to coast to a 9-1 five-inning victory over Penn on Friday afternoon at the Bank of the James Invitational. The Penguins also dropped a 10-1 decision to Longwood earlier in the day.

Senior Ashlyn Bishop, who had three hits on the day, went 2-for-3 with a run scored and two RBIs and sophomore Bella Meyer was 2-for-3 with two runs scored and drove in another.

Sophomore Isabella O'Brien tossed a complete-game three-hitter with three strikeouts to pick up her first victory of the season.

The Penguins jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the top of the third when Meyer reached on an error, advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Bree Kohler and went to third on a wild pitch. Bishop drove in Meyer with a single down the left-field line.

After the Quakers knotted the game with a run in the bottom half of the third, the Penguins exploded for eight runs on five hits. Pinch-runner Tatum Werley scored on an error to break the tie, and Meyer run-scoring bunt single plated Kennedy Dean, who walked. Bishop's two-out single through the right side scored Ayla Ray, and consecutive bases-loaded walks to Lydia Wilkerson and Emma Gilkerson pushed the YSU lead to 7-1.

Tai Turner and Dean posted back-to-back run scoring singles that plated plate Macy Littler and Wilkerson with the game's final runs.

In the opener, Wilkerson and Bishop each tallied base knocks for the Penguins.

Youngstown State faces Mt. St. Mary's and Hampton, Saturday, at 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., respectively.