La PLUME, Pa.—Veteran Susquehanna University baseball coach Denny Bowers may have found a way to slow down Keystone College Thursday afternoon at Christy Mathewson Field. 

He used six pitchers, none of whom threw more than two innings, as the River Hawks snapped the Giants' season-long nine-game winning streak with a 7-3 victory. With the win, Susquehanna improves to 6-12 on the season while Keystone falls to 12-6. 

It was more than pitching that kept the Giants off-balance today.  

Susquehanna belted out 15 hits, including three each by freshman Steve Lorenz and sophomore Craig Roumes and two apiece by sophomore Justin Miller and freshmen Jack Carroll and Luke Tuttle.  The River Hawks erased an early 1-0 lead on an RBI double by Lorenz and an RBI single by freshman Ryan Casey in the second inning and added two more in the sixth when Roumes drove in two runs with a single.

In the seventh, Miller drove in a run with a double to ignite a two-run rally and Lorenz added an RBI single for an insurance run in the eighth.

Of the six pitchers utilized by Bowers today, none allowed more than two hits. 

Junior Dakota McFadden led Keystone with two hits and junior Mohammed Hussein extended his hitting streak to 10 games with a single in the eighth inning.   Keystone also received a hit apiece from juniors Johann Paniagua and Ronald Medina, senior Robbie Nardelli, and sophomore Alejandro Monteverde. 

The Giants will open their Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC) schedule this Saturday, April 7, with a doubleheader against Cabrini University in Radnor, Pennsylvania, beginning at 12:00 noon. 

Keystone news & notes

• Hussein scored two runs today and raised his team-leading batting to .413 after going 1-for-2 at the plate today
• Nardelli, who missed all of last season due to an injury, recorded his first hit of the season
• Susquehanna's 15 hits today were the second-most allowed by the Giant pitching staff this season; Adrian College (Mich.) had 16 against Keystone on March 16
• With two hits today, McFadden raised his batting average to .315
• Junior Chris Panzarella and senior Bray Curreri each drove in a run today; Panzarella is now second on the team in RBIs behind McFadden with 14 and Curreri is third with 13