FREDERICK, Md. – Manny Jackson and Dan Tauken both drove in four runs and smashed their second home run of the season to propel a State College Spikes offense that had enough firepower to capture their fifth straight win as they held off the Frederick Keys, 16-12, on Tuesday night at Nymeo Field at Harry Grove Stadium.

The 28 combined runs tied a Spikes (5-1 2nd Half) record for total runs in a game, set last year in Frederick in a 17-11 State College win over the Keys (3-4 2nd Half).

Down 5-1 going into the fourth inning, the Spikes received their first boost from Jackson’s 384-foot, two-run shot to right-center field to cut the deficit in half. In the fifth, after a wild pitch scored Jaden Collura and a T.J. Salvaggio groundout plated Chenar Brown, Tauken sent the first pitch delivered by Frederick reliever Blake Donnan 398 feet to center field to put the Spikes in front.

Jackson and Tauken then both delivered big hits in a six-run sixth for the Spikes. After Salvaggio’s RBI single, Tauken stepped to the plate with the bases loaded and drove in two runs with a single to left field, followed by a two-run triple to right field from Jackson, with a subsequent error also bringing him home.

Adonis Forte’s two-run triple in the ninth and a Trotter Boston sacrifice fly then built the State College lead to 16-7, a lead that was threatened by Frederick’s five-run ninth before the Spikes put it away.

Taj Bates went 3-for-5 with his first home run of the season in the seventh and a total of five runs batted in for the Keys. Cam Hassert started the scoring with a two-run homer, his second of the season, in the first. Devan Bade hit his first home run of the season, a three-run shot to left, as part of the Keys’ last gasp in the ninth.

Spikes reliever Skyler Riedinger (1-0) picked up the win in his debut with the club, delivering two scoreless innings in which he allowed one hit and one walk while striking out two batters.

Frederick starter Paul Panduro (1-2) took the loss after yielding six runs, five of them earned, over 4 1/3 innings.