La PLUME, Pa.—If pitching cures all ills, then veteran Keystone College head coach Jamie Shevchik shouldn't have to worry about going to see a doctor.
 
The Giants got another strong pitching performance today, this time from freshman Nathan Hinkley (Bradenton, Fla./Saint Lucie West Centennial), in a 6-1 win over Centenary University in the first of a two-game Colonial States Athletic Conference series that concludes Thursday afternoon in Hackettstown, New Jersey.
 
Hinkley went eight innings, allowed only three hits, and did not give up a run to improve to 3-0 on the season.  His masterful performance included 67 strikes among the 98 pitches he tossed (68.3 percent).
 
On the offensive end, junior Mohammed Hussein (Queens, NY/William C. Bryant) extended his hitting streak to 13 games by going 2-for-2, including his eighth double of the year, and junior Dakota McFadden (Rocky Point, NC/Heide Trask) drove in two runs during a five-run rally in the third inning that also included a double by senior Ty Christian (Williamstown, N.Y./Altmar-Parish-Williamstown) and an RBI double by senior Bray Curreri (Eldred, N.Y./Eldred Central).
 
The Giants added an insurance run in the seventh on a sacrifice fly by junior Ronald Medina (Bronx, NY/Dewitt Clinton) that scored Hussein, who opened the inning with a single.
 
The win was the third straight and 12^th in the last 13 games for the Giants, now 15-6 overall and 3-0 in the CSAC.  The loss drops the Cyclones to 6-11 and 0-3 in the conference.
 
Centenary avoided the shutout in the ninth inning when senior Tim Maxwell walked, advanced to second base on a wild pitch, and eventually scored on an error.
 
Keystone news & notes

• With two more hits today, Hussein is now batting .425
• Today was Hinkley's longest outing of the season, surpassing his previous best of 6.2 innings against Ohio Wesleyan on March 15; he has thrown at least six innings in three of his six appearances
• Prior to Thursday's game at Centenary, the Giants will take on Moravian College in non-conference action Wednesday afternoon in Bethlehem
• Curreri has hit safely in three straight and five of his last six games to improve his batting average to .278