GWYNEDD VALLEY, PA. -- Gwynedd Mercy had their eight-game win streak come to an end, falling 7-4 to Keystone in a Colonial States Athletic Conference matchup Wednesday afternoon.
Gwynedd (16-12, 10-4 CSAC) had trouble finding their rhythm offensively, as Keystone starter Christopher Adams held the team to three hits in the first six innings. The Giants plated runs in the first, third, and fourth for a 3-0 lead. A two-run homerun in the fifth and an RBI single in the sixth added to the Keystone advantage.
In the seventh,
Justin Curtin knocked in
Josh Lopez with two outs to get a run home. With runners now on the corners, Adams got out of the inning when
Nick Mulvey hit a hard liner to second for the third out.
The Griffins made things very interesting in their final at-bat, scoring three runs to pull within three. A Lopez lead-off walk, later followed by a double from
Justin Forktus put runners on second and third.
Matt Carter drove in Lopez with a single and Forktus made it to third on the play. An error at short allowed
Bryan Kaelin to reach and Forktus to score, but on the play Kaelin and Carter were able to move up a base to again put runners in scoring position.
Alex Ritter followed with a single to score Carter and suddenly it was a 7-4 game with one out. With Adams out after eight innings, Keystone's Mata Tarabola came on for reliever Bray Curreri to get two grounders to end it.
Lopez was officially 1-for-1 with a walk.
Sachael Sciarretta added two hits with a walk. Starter
Gino Tripodi suffered the loss, throwing into the fifth, yielding four earned runs on six hits.
Liam Sullivan and
George Stewart threw two scoreless innings combined over the final two frames with just one hit.
Adams struck out eight and walked two for Keystone (27-8, 15-1 CSAC).
Gwynedd Mercy, who has clinched a playoff berth, hosts Neumann in a CSAC Doubleheader on Friday in their regular season finale. First pitch is slated for 1 p.m.
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