La PLUME, Pa. – Keystone baseball fended off the visiting Fighting Tigers of SUNY Cobleskill, 7-4, to sweep the season series Sunday afternoon in non-conference action at Christy Mathewson Field.

Cobleskill got on the scoreboard first with a two-run homer by Samuel Gutierrez in the opening frame, but it wouldn't be enough to overcame the continued hot hitting from Keystone's Adam Kelly (Beach Lake, Pa./Honesdale).

The graduate senior knotted the score up in the bottom half of the first inning with a two-RBI double before later giving the Giants the lead on a three-run home run in the third.

After the Fighting Tigers got a run back in the top of the fifth, Keystone responded with an RBI-double from Chris Hadsall (Lehman, Pa./Lake Lehman) and a sacrifice fly by Pedro Abreu (Bronx, N.Y./Santa Teresa) to plate a pair of runs.

Julian Gonzalez (Bayonne, N.J./Bayonne) earned his second win of the season in his fifth start on the mound.

Keystone improved to 20-15 overall as SUNY Cobleskill fell to 20-16.

The Giants previously defeated the Fighting Tigers last week, 18-3, at SUNY Cobleskill's home field.

Fighting Tigers are coached by former Giants players Lance Ratchford '11 and Austin Straub '14. Both were members of the 2011 World Series team that was inducted into the Keystone College Athletics Hall of Fame earlier this school year.

Inside The Box Score

• Over the last 10 games, Kelly leads the team in multiple statistical categories with 23 hits, 30 RBIs, five home runs, a .561 batting average and 46 total bases.
• JD Barrett (Moosic, Pa./Dallas) got one hit Sunday afternoon, leaving him now a hit away from reaching 100 in his career. The graduate senior also recorded two putouts and four assists with one double play.
• Nick Termini (Clark Summit, Pa./Abington Heights) closed out the game for the Giants, getting three strikeouts in 1-1/3 innings of work.
• Frank Leger went 1 for 1 on the afternoon with three walks, a sacrifice fly and an RBI single for the Fighting Tigers.
• Eddy Garcia went 2 for 4 with a walk, three runs scored and a stolen base.
• Freshman Aidan Maxwell closed out the game on the rubber for SUNY Cobleskill, going 4.0 innings with no runs allowed and notching six strikeouts.

What's Next

• Keystone concludes its regular season with a non-conference slate at Neumann (11-19 overall) Tuesday, May 3 followed by a home game against Scranton (26-9-1 overall) Wednesday, May 4 at 3:45 p.m.
• SUNY Cobleskill wraps up its regular season with a doubleheader at Cazenovia (9-20 overall) on May 3.
• The Giants will host Saint Elizabeth (14-20 overall) for the CSAC Championships semifinals next weekend, May 6-7.