La Plume, PA - Cairn University baseball finished up their series with Keystone College on Sunday afternoon to make up for a postponement and lost 18-4 to the Giants.
Caleb Lang started the game on the mound for the Highlanders and took the loss to move to 1-1 on the season.
The Highlanders previously split their doubleheader with Keystone in Langhorne, Pa., winning the first game in an exciting 13-12 comeback.
Lang pitched two innings plus some of the third after the Giants scored eight earned runs on him. Lang played well from the plate though, going 3-for-4 with one RBI and a walk.
Tristan Ortega and
John Burlaga had two hits each; as a team the Highlanders had 15 hits in the game.
The Giants had just two hits more, with 17, but the RBI kept coming in for Keystone. Keystone opened up a 9-3 lead by the end of the third inning and scored seven runs in the sixth inning alone. Gaston Rojas added the final run for Keystone in the seventh inning with a two-run homerun.
With the loss, the Highlanders dropped to 6-22 overall and 1-11 in the CSAC. Keystone improved to 20-11 overall and 6-5 in the conference with the win. Cairn will next host the University of Valley Forge on Tuesday, Apr. 21, in Langhorne for a doubleheader at 1 p.m.