Kelly Automotive Park hosted a bit of history Thursday morning, courtesy of Mercyhurst pitcher Dan Altavilla.

The 5-foot-11 junior right-hander struck out 19 in 7.2 innings — fanning 11 straight at one point — in the Lakers’ 6-0 win over West Chester in the PSAC Baseball Tournament.

Altavilla’s effort broke the PSAC record for most strikeouts in a game. That mark stood for 99 years and was set by Shippensburg’s Clyde Mellinger, who fanned 18 Kutztown batters in 1915.

Altavilla is 8-0 on the year in 10 starts, including five shutouts. He has struck out 107 batters in 68 innings this year and threw 73 of 113 pitches for strikes Thursday. He walked two.

“I’ve never seen anything like that,” Freeport graduate and Mercyhurst center fielder Ryan Siegel said. “He was masterful. I felt like I should have paid money to stand there and watch that.

“I guess that’s what it would look like if college hitters stood in there against a major league pitcher.”

Altavilla is projected to go between the fifth and 10th rounds of next month’s amateur draft.

“That’s always a tricky thing,” Lakers coach Joe Spano said of the draft. “Danny added a change up during the summer and that completed his arsenal. His fastball tops out at 96 miles per hour.”

Siegel had a single, walk and scored two runs for Mercyhurst (29-12). West Chester (25-18) managed two singles all day.

Altavilla was two strikeouts shy of the NCAA Division II record of 21 in a game. Butler graduate Colin McKee finished the game for the Lakers, retiring all four hitters he faced and striking out two.

Pitt-Johnstown 2, Bloomsburg 1 — Jake Warner had three hits for the Mountain Cats (23-22). Ernesto Rizzitano had a run-scoring single in the seventh to decide the issue.

Derek Younker pitched a complete game, scattering eight hits against Bloomsburg (28-19).

Kutztown 2, Seton Hill 1— The PSAC West regular season champion Griffins (36-15) were thwarted in 12 innings. Collin Holmes pitched 10 innings for Kutztown (28-19).

Butler graduate Cody Herald was hitless in five at bats for Seton Hill.