Game Information
Scores: Keiser 10, Trinity Baptist 5 | Keiser 16, Trinity Baptist 2
Records: Keiser (12-6), Trinity Baptist (2-18)
Series: KU leads 4-0
Location:Â Trinity Ballyard Complex, Jacksonville, Fla.
Duration of Games: 1:45 | 1:30
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Game One
Keiser Highlights
- The Seahawks tallied six extra base-hits in the game, including home runs off the bats of Janelle Dominguez, Cheyenne Blumberg and Bermari Figueroa.
- The Seahawks tallied 15 hits in the game while five players recorded multi-hit performances, led by Kelsey Brodbeck's game-best four.
- Autumn Green came out of the bullpen to pitch the final five innings, winning her fifth game of the season. The junior struck out five while allowing just one hit.
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Turning Point
After TBC closed within a run heading into the seventh, Figueroa launched a grand slam to center, extending the Keiser lead to 10-5.
How it Happened
- Trinity Baptist jumped out to a 4-0 advantage in the first before Keiser got a run back in the second on a leadoff home run to center by Dominguez.Â
- The Seahawks equalized the game in the third when Blumberg launched a three-run blast to center, scoring Troiana Test and Avery Miller, both reaching on singles.
- KU took their first lead of the afternoon in the fourth after Kelsie Thurman reached on a one-out triple to center and scored on a sacrifice fly to left by Figueroa, making it 4-3.
- Monika Garabedian raised the margin to two after delivering a pinch-hit double in the fifth but TBC got a run back in the bottom half to close within 6-5.
- Keiser put the game out of reach in the seventh when Figueroa crushed a grand slam to center, giving the Seahawks a 10-5 victory.
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Game Two
Keiser Highlights
- The Seahawks tallied a season-best 19 hits in game two, including a pair of homers and seven doubles.
- Keiser scored a season-high 16 runs, the most in a game since March 8, 2014, when the Seahawks beat Fisher College, 16-0.
- Ten different batters recorded at least one hit, while five players finished with multi-hit performances.
- Miller was perfect at the plate, going 4-for-4 with four doubles, and driving in four runs.
- Paige Boyle remained undefeated in the circle, moving to 3-0 after allowing just one earned run while striking out six in a complete game effort.
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Turning Point
The offensive onslaught put on by Keiser proved to be the difference maker in the finale as the Seahawks scored multiple runs in four of the five innings.
How it Happened
- Keiser carried their momentum over from game one as they jumped out a 3-0 advantage in the first.
- Miller started the scoring with an RBI double before Dominguez hit her second home run of the day, this time a two-run shot to lead 3-0.
- The Eagles got a run back in the bottom half but the Seahawks added three more runs in the third, highlighted by RBI singles from Blumberg and Aquaria Baines, making it 6-1.
- Trinity Baptist plated their final run of the game in the bottom half when the Seahawks erupted in the fourth. KU pushed across seven runs on nine hits, including a pinch-hit, two-run blast from Garabedian to take a commanding 13-2 advantage.
- The Seahawks offense continued rolling in the fifth, plating runs on RBI doubles from Miller and Blumberg along with a sacrifice fly from Baines, winning 16-2, in a shortened game.
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Up Next
Keiser remains on the road, taking on Edward Waters this Tuesday, March 20 in Jacksonville, Fla. The two squads will play a doubleheader beginning at 2:00 PM.
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