The Keystone College softball team will host Wilkes University in a non-conference doubleheader beginning at 3:00 p.m. at Edmunds Field in La Plume.
 
The Giants will look to snap a three-game losing streak and get ready for a pair of Colonial States Athletic Conference doubleheaders at home against Rosemont College Friday and Cedar Crest Saturday, the results of which could determine whether Keystone qualifies for the CSAC tournament that begins with quarterfinal action on Wednesday, May 2.
 
Keystone is now tied with Marywood University for the sixth and final playoff spot with six conference doubleheaders remaining, which gives the Giants plenty of time to move up in the standings.
 
Wilkes news & notes

• Colonels enter today's doubleheader with 14-8 overall record and a 4-4 mark in the Freedom Conference of the Middle Atlantic Conference
• Wilkes and Keystone split last year's games played in Edwardsville; Colonels won the opener, 9-1, in five innings and Giants took the nightcap, 8-6
• As a team, Wilkes is battng .324, with eight players hitting over .300.Sarah Gibson leads the way with a .436 average, followed by Christina Gambino (.426), Celine Podlesney (.375), Haley Welker (.346), Jordyn Kondras (.338), Kaliyah Moore (.320), and Caitlin Brown (.308).
• Wilkes is 4-4 on the road this year; Like Keystone, the Colonels will be out to snap a three-game losing streak today after dropping a pair to Delaware Valley on Sunday, 7-6 & 6-5, and one to cross-town rival King's, 14-2 on Saturday
• Gracen Staunton leads the pitching staff with a 7-1 mark that includes two shutouts in 10 appearances; her era is a team-leading 2.12.

 
Keystone news & notes

• Junior Alyssa Hughes (Sellersville, Pa./Pennridge) has hit safely in her last six games to raise her team-leading batting average to .397; during this span, she is hitting .455
• Freshman Paige Mokychic (Beaumont, Pa./Tunkhannock Area) has also been on a roll, raising her batting average to .338 by hitting .529 (9 of 17) in her last five games; she has hit safely in 14 of 20 games and has eight multi-hit games this year
• Senior Kaylee Hartman (Red Bank, N.J./Red Bank Regional) has started 84 of 89 games in her career and sports a career batting average of .295; fellow senior Ryleigh Fitch (Springville, Pa./Tunkhannock Area) has started 78 of 88 career games and is batting .274 in her career
• Sophomore Shannon Lloyd (King of Prussia, Pa./Archbishop John Carroll) leads the Giants with four multi-RBI games; she is also the team leader in home runs with four, one more than Mokychic
• Giants are 2-0 this year in games decided by one run