Justin Klingman	Ross Danzig	Michael Gaeta

Box score

LaPLUME, Pa. – Looking to knock off a nationally ranked team for the second time in eight days, The University of Scranton baseball team fell in an early hole and couldn't recover, losing to 15th-ranked Keystone College, 11-4, on Wednesday afternoon at Christy Mathewson Field.

The Royals (18-13) beat then-ninth-ranked Ramapo College, 8-2, on Tuesday, April 9 and allowed just eight runs in a three-game series at Moravian over the weekend. But Keystone (24-7) knocked around Scranton's pitching for seven runs in the first three innings and didn't look back.

The Giants finished with 15 hits and took advantage of three Royals miscues to score a pair of unearned runs.

Scranton scored four times in the top of the eighth to cut their deficit to 10-4, but Keystone added a run in the bottom of the inning and then shut down the Royals in the ninth.

Sophomore second baseman Justin Klingman (Clarks Summit, Pa./Abington Heights) got the Royals on the board in the eighth with an RBI double. Sophomore first baseman Ross Danzig (Clarks Green, Pa./Abington Heights/Blair Academy, N.J.) followed with a two-run double and junior outfielder Michael Gaeta (Cranford, N.J./Cranford) added an RBI single in the inning.

Gaeta and Danzig each had two hits for the Royals, while seniors Anthony Duchnowski (Dunmore, Pa./Holy Cross) and Greg Monastra (West Chester, Pa./Cardinal O'Hara) and junior Eddie Ravert (Havertown, Pa./Malvern Prep) each had singles.

Scranton returns to the diamond on Saturday, April 20, when it hosts Drew University in a Landmark Conference doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m. at Connell Park. 

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