BETHLEHEM, Pa.—Junior
Mohammed Hussein (Queens, NY/William C. Bryant) extended his hitting streak to 14 games, but it wasn't enough to keep Keystone College from dropping a 5-3 decision to Moravian College in non-conference action Wednesday afternoon at Gillespie Field.
Hussein finished with two hits, including a triple, and drove in a run as the Giants had a three-game winning streak snapped to fall to 15-7 on the season. Behind a strong pitching performance by junior Brendon Caraway, the Greyhounds improved to 14-12.
Caraway went seven innings, struck out seven and scattered six hits to improve to 1-1 on the year. Relievers Billy Roethke and Rhett Jacoby pitched the final two innings and held the Giants to only one hit. Jacoby picked up the save, his second of the season.
Keystone took a 1-0 lead in the first inning as junior
Dakota McFadden (Rocky Point, NC/Heide Trask) was hit by a pitch with two outs, advanced to second on a passed ball and came around to score on a single by junior
Ronald Medina (Bronx, NY/Dewitt Clinton). The Giants added a run in the fifth on back-to-back singles by sophomore
Ryan Callahan (Highland Mills, N.Y./Monroe-Woodbury) and Hussein and Callahan scored on a fielder's choice on a ball hit by sophomore
Alejandro Monteverde (Catasauqua, Pa./Catasauqua). In the seventh, Hussein hit a triple to center field that drove in junior
Chris Panzarella (Hazle Township, Pa./Hazleton Area), who drew a walk.
Moravian tied it up in the second and took the lead for good with a three-run rally in the third that featured a two-run double by junior Austin Markowski and a sacrifice fly on a foul ball by senior Logan Welles that scored junior Evan Kulig, who reached on a fielder's choice.
Markowski paced the Greyhounds 10-hit attack with three hits, including a pair of doubles, and Wells and sophomore Ian Csencsits chipped in two hits apiece.
Keystone will return to Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC) action tomorrow afternoon in the second game of a series against Centenary University in Hackettstown, New Jersey, beginning at 3:00 p.m. On Tuesday, the Giants defeated Centenary, 6-1, at Christy Mathewson Field in La Plume.
Keystone news & notes
- Hussein is now hitting .423 and has had 11 multi-hit games during this 14-game hitting streak
- Giants utilized four pitchers today—junior Chris Adams, seniors Troy Terzi (Wallingford, Conn./Notre Dame) and Tyler Widitz (Phillipsburg, N.J./Phillipsburg), and McFadden; McFadden and Widitz combined to throw three innings and did not allow a run while giving up only two hits
- Hussein's triple was his second of the season
- Sophomore Adam Kelly (Beach Lake, Pa./Honesdale) belted a double, his third of the year
- Terzi struck out two batters in two innings to raise his team-leading strikeout total to 43
