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Box Score 2 FORT PIERCE, Fla. – The Arcadia University baseball team dropped both ends of a doubleheader against Keystone College Saturday in Fort Pierce, Florida, falling in game-one 8-5 before being shutout in game-two 4-0.
The Knights are now 0-3 for the season, while the Giants improved to 2-4 with their first two victories of the season.
Game-one started out as a slugfest, with Keystone plating four runs in the bottom of the first one three straight runs scoring hits and an error, and Arcadia answering with a four-run second to take a 5-4 lead. Senior first baseman
Jay Zehring (Manassas, Va.) doubled to scored junior left fielder
Andonis Yiantsos (Vorhees, N.J.), and then scored behind sophomore third baseman
Michael Nessel (Stuart, Fla.) on a single from freshman catcher
Jordan Draude (Lancaster, Pa.). Senior right fielder
Taylor Schon (Scotch Plains, N.J.) capped the scoring on an RBI-single off the bat of center fielder
Justin Simpson (Centerville, Va.).
The Giants tied the game in the bottom of the fourth on an RBI single by senior Rick McLaughlin (Hamilton, N.J.), and then pushed across three runs in the bottom of the sixth to secure the win. Senior first baseman Ricky Riscicia (Greenwich, Conn.) doubled to drive in a pair of runs and later scored on junior designated hitter Dan Denton's (Newtown, Pa.) sac-fly.
Senior Robert Minaya (North Bergen, N.J.) earned the decision for Keystone after pitching a scoreless sixth, and junior Adam Sosnowski (Dickson City, Pa.) picked up the save with a scoreless seventh. Freshman
Michael Ferrence (Hanover Township, Pa.) took the loss for the Knights after allowing the only two batters he faced to reach base to lead off the sixth.
The Giants scored a single run in each of the final four inning of game-two to earn the 4-0 win, taking the lead for good on an RBI-single from senior third baseman Lymbel Guerrero (Lynn, Mass.) that scored senior second baseman Chris Bzozowski (Westhampton, N.J.) from second in the top of the fourth after leaving the bases loaded in the third.
Arcadia had its chances to get on the board in the second game, but stranded a pair of base runners on three occasions.
Junior Michael Maszoros (Bridgeport, Conn.) picked up the win on the mound after fanning nine batters in six-plus innings, while Nessell took the loss after allowing three earned runs on seven hits in 6.2 innings of work.
Arcadia will next take on Hilbert College Sunday night, with the first pitch scheduled for 7 p.m. in Fort Pierce.