SCRANTON, Pa.--With the top seed in the Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC) already wrapped up, the Keystone College baseball team's main focus now is staying sharp in the final week of the regular season.

Behind three hits from junior shortstop Chris Panzarella (Hazle Township, Pa./Hazleton Area) and two each from seniors Eric Drzewiecki (Hellertown, Pa./Phillipsburg) and Bray Curreri (Eldred, N.Y./Eldred Central), the Giants accomplished that goal this evening by turning back The University of Scranton, 9-4, at the Kevin P Quinn, SJ, Athletics Campus.  The game was called in the middle of the eighth inning due to rain.

The win improves Keystone to 28-8 heading into Saturday's season finale against St. John Fisher, the top-ranked team in the NCAA New York region.  The loss drops the Royals to 18-18.

Keystone opened up an early 2-0 lead on sacrifice flies by junior Darren McFadden and sophomore Ryan Callahan (Highland Mills, N.Y./Monroe-Woodbury) in the first and second innings, respectively, and extended it to 5-0 with a three-run rally in the fifth that featured a run-scoring single by Panzarella and a two-run single by Curreri.  Scranton closed the gap to 5-4 as sophomore Brandon Peters belted a two-run double in the bottom of the fifth and sophomore Travis Adams followed with an RBI single in the sixth.

Curreri and Panzarella came though again with RBI singles in the seventh and eighth inning, respectively, and sophomore Alejandro Monteverde (Catasauqua, Pa./Catasauqua) drove in a two with a single in the seventh.

Junior pitcher Mohammed Hussein (Queens, NY/William C. Bryant) improved to 4-0 on the season by striking out four and scattering four hits in five innings before giving way to junior reliever Wandy Brito (Reading, Pa./Reading), who held the Royals to one run on three hits in two innings.  Sean Haveron led Scranton with two hits.

Keystone news & notes

• Giants have won two straight and 13 of their last 14 games
• With three hits tonight, Panzarella has raised his batting average to .303
• Keystone is 12-2 on the road this year
• Giants now have six players batting over .300 on the year:  Hussein (.447), Drzewiecki (.385), Monteverde (.381), Dakota McFadden (Rocky Point, NC/Heide Trask) (.363), Ronald Medina (Bronx, NY/Dewitt Clinton) (.339), and Panzarella
• Keystone also has three pitchers now with earned run averages under 3.0:  Troy Terzi (Wallingford, Conn./Notre Dame) (1.43), Hussein (2.05) and McFadden (2.76)