Giants advance to conference title game

Boyertown, PA (5-13-11) - The Keystone College Giants are heading back to the Colonial States Athletic Conference baseball title game, as the Giants breezed by Immaculata University 12-2 in a winner's bracket game.

The Giants, who are in pursuit of their third consecutive conference crown, will play on Saturday at 1pm against Gwynedd-Mercy College for a chance to return to the NCAA tournament.

The victory moves Keystone to 31-10 on the season, while Immaculata falls to 19-14.

Blaine O'Brien worked eight innings of three hit ball, allowing one earned run, to pick up the victory.  O'Brien struck out eight in the game.

Brian Henry doubled as part of a three hit game, while also driving in two.  Andrew Siano belted out a triple to join Henry with three hits on the afternoon.

Roberto Santana tripled and doubled as the right-fielder drove in three and scored a pair.  Andy Vega also picked up two RBI with a two hit effort, as the Giants knocked out a dozen hits.

The Giants struck first in the second when Vega scored on a Fernando Perez single right.  The Mighty Macs answered back in the third Joe Rawlings double to center.

A Santana two run double to deep center in the bottom half of the inning put the Giants back on top to stay.  Lance Ratchford drew a bases loaded walk to plate the third Keystone run of the inning.

Immaculata got one back in the fifth on a Keystone throwing error.  However, the bottom of the inning was all Giants, as the top seed pushed across five runs to break things open.

Siano drove in the fist run of the inning, scoring Austin Straub who had reached on an error, as the Giants chased Mighty Macs starter Alex Kobylinski.  Henry doubled to score two more runs and would eventually come around to score Keystone's fourth run of the inning.  Vega would eventually score the fifth run.

The Giants closed out the game with a three run eight, as Siano and Santana led off with back-to-back triples to highlight the frame.



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