LA PLUME, PA. -- Fourth-seeded Gwynedd Mercy lost, 7-3, in their CSAC Tournament opener at Keystone on Thursday.

The Griffins will now face Immaculata, who dropped a 4-3 decision to Neumann, in an elimination game tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. on the campus of Marywood University. The Giants advance to play Neumann with the winner advancing to the championship series on Saturday.

The winner of the IU/Gwynedd elimination game will then take on the loser of the Neumann/Keystone  also on Friday around approximately 3:30 p.m.

Keystone put Gwynedd in an early deficit thanks to an RBI single in the first and a grand slam from Chris Triano in the second for a 5-0 lead.

Gwynedd (19-20) would get a run across in the third on a bases loaded sac fly from Beau Fleming to score Justin Curtin. Later in the inning with two outs and two on, a third strike from Keystone starter Felix Baez on Chris Hens got away and found its way to the backstop. A wild throw over to first base to try and get Hens, allowed Jason Mulvey to score to cut it to a 5-2 deficit.

The Giants (31-9) would add a run in the bottom half where the score would stay that way until the fifth. GMercyU would load the bases with one out. One run would come home after Tommy Nardini walked on four pitches. Gwynedd would again get the sacks full in the sixth, but the Giants used a double play to further frustrate the Griffins.

After Keystone added an unearned run in the seventh to make it a four-run game, the Griffins looked like they were putting something together in their final at-bat in the ninth.

Nick Spinella would enter for the Giants in relief of Baez to start the ninth. GMercyU would get one-out back-to-back singles from Fleming and Hens. Keystone would turn their second double play of the game to end it and send Gwynedd into the loser's bracket.

Mulvey would go 3-for-5 while Fleming and Curtin each had a pair of hits. Starter Gino Tripodi struck out four and walked four while yielding six earned runs on 10 hits before Andrew Hill came on in relief in the eighth.

Baez fanned seven in eight innings of work with two earned on nine hits.