La Plume, PA – Keystone College's softball team swept a pair of Colonial States Athletic Conference games from visiting Cairn University on Monday as the Giants played their home opener at Edmunds Field.  The Giants, who rallied to win with a pair of runs in the bottom of the seventh inning, 6-5, completed the sweep with a six-inning, 12-4 victory in the nightcap to improve to 4-8 on the season and 2-4 in conference play.
 
In Monday's opener, Karissa Worobey (Scranton, PA/Scranton) gave Keystone a 1-0 edge with a leadoff home run to straightaway center to start the third inning.  Cairn (0-18, 0-6 CSAC) responded with four runs on four hits in the top of the fifth inning to claim a 4-1 advantage as Jocelyn Good hit a three-run double to right field before scoring on a Kelly Hendrickson double to make it a three-run game in favor of the Highlanders.
 
Keystone scored three runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to level the score at 4-4.  Kaitlyn Sawicki (Factoryville, PA/Lackawanna Trail) ripped a two-run double to right-center that scored Sara Schraden (Allentown, PA/William Allen) and Emily Long (Shamokin, PA/Lourdes Regional) before Lindsey Bucklaw (Carbondale, PA/Carbondale Area) singled home Sawicki with the tying run. 
 
The Highlanders went back in front, 5-4, in the top of the seventh inning when Brigid Shehan looped a single just fair inside the right field line to score Good from second with the go-ahead run.  In the home half of the frame, Worobey scored from first on Kimberly Rivera (New York, NY/South Bronx Campus)'s double to the gap in left- center and advanced to third on a sacrifice fly off the bat of Antonette Scialpi (Hughestown, PA/Pittston Area).  Rivera then scored the winning run, beating out throw to home after Long grounded out to short.
 
Worobey earned her first victory on the rubber on the season, tossing a complete game, striking out eight batters and allowing eight hits.  The senior also led the Giants with two runs scored. 
 
Sawicki's two RBIs paced Keystone in the opener with Worobey, Rivera, Long, Schraden, Sawicki, and Bucklaw accounting for the Giants' six hits in the opener.
 
Cairn starter Tiffany Gower (0-9) suffered the loss despite going the distance and fanning five batters and allowing six hits.  Jessica Good, Jocelyn Good, and Keely Congleton led the Highlanders with two hits apiece in the game one setback.
 
In game two, Cairn took a 1-0 lead in their first at-bats on a solo home run off the bat of Kelly Hendrickson, but Keystone level the contest at one-apiece in the bottom half of the frame as Scialpi scored from first on a Long double to left field. 
 
Sarah Stacey (Shickshinny, PA/Lake-Lehman) put a charge into one in the bottom of the second inning, lacing a two-run home run over the centerfield fence to give the Giants a 3-1 advantage.  The following inning, Schraden drove in Long with a single up the middle before Katie Thompson (Nazareth, PA/Nazareth Area) smacked a bases-loaded triple down the left field line to give the hosts a 7-1 lead.  Thompson then came home on a fielding error on a ball hit by Rivera.
 
Cairn got a run back in the visitor's fourth as Shehan led the inning off with a solo home run to right-center, but Keystone countered in the home half of the inning as Schraden scored on a single to center from Bucklaw.
 
The Highlanders made it a 9-4 game with a pair of runs in the top of the sixth inning, but the Giants responded with three runs in their half of the frame to end the game.  Schraden singled home Long before coming home on a Bucklaw base hit.  Thompson then ended the game by scoring from third on a single to deep short off the bat of Stacey.
 
Long and Bucklaw finished the game with three hits apiece while Schraden, Sawicki, Stacey, Bucklaw, and Thompson each had two hits.  Thompson led the squad with four RBIs in the nightcap while Stacey scored three runs. 
 
Worobey (2-6) earned her second win of the day on the mound by scattering seven hits and striking out one batter in six innings of work.
 
Cairn starter Kelly Hendrickson (0-9) suffered the loss after yielding eight runs on 10 hits in three innings of work while Gower tossed the final 2.1 innings for the Highlanders and was charged with four runs on six hits for the visitors, who got a pair of hits from Hannah Blackmer in the game two defeat.
 
Keystone will right back in action on Tuesday with a CSAC doubleheader against Centenary College that is scheduled to start at 3:00 p.m. on Edmunds Field in La Plume.