Game Information
Score: Keiser 9, Ave Maria 3
Records: No. 15 Keiser (13-4, 6-1 TSC), Ave Maria (7-9, 1-6 TSC)
Series: 1-0, Keiser
Location: West Palm Beach, Fla.
Duration of Game: 2:50
Weather: 79, partly cloudy
                                                             
Keiser Highlights

• Five different Seahawks registered multiple hits in today's victory, accounting for 11 of the team's 15 hits.
• Jack Curtis led the team in hits with three, finishing the game batting 3-4 with one run batted in.
• Tom Prospero led the squad in RBIs with two, finishing the contest batting 2-5.
• Six different Seahawks recorded at least one RBI in the victory.
• Kyle Keatts notched win No. 4 on the season, pitching six innings and yielding seven hits and three runs, two of which were earned.

 
Turning Point
Keiser's seven-run fourth inning proved to be the difference maker in today's contest. The Seahawks entered the inning trailing 3-0 prior to claiming the 7-3 lead following. The Seahawks scored two runs with no outs in the inning and then scored the final five runs all with two outs.
 
How it Happened

• After a 1-2-3 top half of the first, Keiser left the bases juiced in the bottom of the first when Jack Curtis lined out to left field to conclude the Seahawk threat.
• The top half of the second inning ended with a Tom Prospero leaping catch at short to strand the Gyrenes runner on second base.
• Ave Maria scored two runs in the top of the third inning when the Gyrenes plated two runs on an Andy Hernandez two-out single.
• Keiser had the chance to score with runners on first and second with no one out but could not cut into the deficit as Keivan Berges, Tivon Faneyte and Brad Myott were set down to end the inning.
• The Gyrenes scored their third run of the game in the top half of the fourth inning when Justin Hartshorne lifted a sacrifice fly to right field to bring Howe home from third.
• The Keiser bats came to life in the bottom of the fourth when the Seahawks scored seven runs on five hits and one Ave Maria error.
• After Keiser loaded the bases with no one out, Prospero hit a deep single to right field that bounced off the head of Hartshorne, bringing in Reyni Olivero and Jack Curtis to cut the Gyrenes' lead to 3-2.
• The contest was tied at three after Gabby Mundo laid down the perfect bunt to advance the Keiser runners to second and third, followed by Dylan Dore's RBI ground out to bring Fitzpatrick in from third.
• The Seahawks claimed the 5-3 advantage after an Ave Maria error allowed Berges and Prospero to score with two outs in the inning.
• Faneyte was next in line to come across the plate, doing so after Myott roped an RBI double down the left field line.
• The final run of the inning came when Curtis doubled to right center over the head of Mason Dinesen, bringing home Myott for the 7-3 advantage.
• The Seahawks extended their lead to 8-3 in the bottom half of the fifth when Berges laced a two-out single back from whence it came to bring Mundo in from second.
• Keiser added another insurance run in the bottom half of the seventh inning when Faneyte belted a double to right field to bring Dore in to score from first to give the Seahawks the 9-3 edge.
• Both squads would stall in the final two innings as neither team scored to solidify the 9-3 victory in favor of the Seahawks.

 
Up Next
The Seahawks will conclude their three-game series against Ave Maria tomorrow with a doubleheader beginning at noon.