La PLUME, Pa.—To say that Neumman University had Keystone College's number might be an understatement.
 
Entering today's Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC) doubleheader at Edmunds Field, the Knights had won 20 straight games over the Giants.  They made it 21 in a row with a 5-1 win in the opener, but Keystone ended years of frustration with a 5-4 win in the nightcap.
 
The split puts the Giants at 9-23 and 7-9 in the conference, while the Knights are now 15-12 and 11-3 in the CSAC.
 
Game 1  - Junior Jackie Schneider had three hits, including two doubles, and drove in two runs and sophomore Grace Sperrassa belted her first home run of the season as the Knights jumped out to a 4-0 lead after three innings en route to the win.  Neumann also received two hits from sophomore Kierstin Fallers and winning pitcher and sophomore Jen Sieminski scattered six hits and struck out four to improve to 8-5 on the season.
 
Losing pitcher and junior Alyssa Hughes (Sellersville, Pa./Pennridge) led the Giants with two hits and allowed just two earned runs in taking the loss.  Keystone pushed a run across the plate in the sixth inning when the Giants loaded the bases on singles by Hughes, freshman Paige Mokychic (Beaumont, Pa./Tunkhannock Area) and sophomore Shannon Lloyd (King of Prussia, Pa./Archbishop John Carroll), and Hughes scored on a single by sophomore Gabrielle Truesdale (Tunkhannock, Pa./Lackawanna Trail).    Sieminski got a ground out after Truesdale's run-scoring single to end the rally.
 
Game 2 – The Giants fell behind 1-0 before Lloyd keyed a three-run rally in the third inning with her team-leading fifth home run of the season and Truesdale knocked in two runs with a single through the left side of the infield as Keystone took the lead for good.    Keystone added two more in the fourth on an RBI ground out by Lloyd and a run-scoring single by Mokychic, who finished with two hits.
 
Senior Ryleigh Fitch (Springville, Pa./Tunkhannock Area) had three hits and Lloyd and Truesdale added a pair for Keystone, which finished with 11 for the game.
 
Defensively, junior Samantha Monetti (Toms River, N.J./Toms River North) came up with a key play in the sixth inning after the Knights scored twice in the fifth to cut Keystone's lead to 5-3.  She threw out a runner at the plate after Neumann's Kristina Del Gaiso singled and pinch-runner Jackie Selby attempted to score from second base.  The Knights added a run after that on an infield single by Sperrassa to slice the lead to one, but winning pitcher Abby Aniska (Scott Township, Pa./Lakeland) was able to get a pop out to end the rally.   With the win, Aniska improved to 3-8 on the year.
 
Fallers finished with four hits for Neumann, including a two-run home run in the fifth inning, and Sperrassa and Del Gaiso had two hits apiece.  Fallers' home run was her third of the year.
 
Fallers opened the seventh inning with a single, but the Giants turned a double play and Aniska got a ground out to end the game and seal the win.
 
Keystone will take on Notre Dame of Maryland University in a CSAC doubleheader tomorrow in Baltimore.