Langhorne, PA – The Cairn baseball team opened a three-game series against the Keystone Giants on Friday afternoon with an 11-4 loss at home. Troy Terzi was fantastic for the Giants. The Keystone starter pushed his record to 6-0 on the season with seven shutout innings. Brady Barr led five Giants with multiple hits with a 4-5 effort in the game.
 
Cairn was led offensively by their leadoff man, Nathan Wilson, who went 3-5 with a triple and two stolen bases. Aaron Takacs also chimed in with a pair of singles in the contest.
 
The Giants set the tone for the contest with two runs in the top of the first. After the Highlanders got two quick outs, the Giants mounted a rally and Chris Panzarella brought home two runs with a single to right center.
 
Two innings later, Keystone added three more runs with one scoring on a Brady Barr RBI single and two more coming home on a two-out single by Austin Chaszar up the middle. The three-third inning runs built the Giants lead to five at 5-0.
 
Early in the contest Cairn had baserunners, but those runners were scattered, creating very few dangerous threats. The Highlanders had a hit in three of the first four frames, but could not advance a runner to second with less than two outs in any of the early innings. Aaron Takacs (first inning) and Nathan Wilson (third) were both stranded in scoring position after the swiped second with two away.
 
Once again, the Giants extended their lead with two runs in the fifth to make it a 7-0 game.
 
In the bottom of the eighth, the Highlanders finally dented the scoreboard when Wilson scampered home on a wild pitch. Wilson had tripled to left center with one out, before coming home with Takacs at the dish.
 
With a six-run cushion separating the two conference foes heading to the ninth, Cairn and Keystone combined for seven runs on eight hits to get to the 11-4 final score.
 
After Keystone scored four in the top of the ninth, the Highlanders countered with their best inning of the game. Cairn plated three runs on three hits in the bottom of the ninth. Brendan Keller, Andrew Philips, and Nathan Wilson each collected RBI singles in the innings, but it was not enough as a pop out ended the game and gave Keystone the victory in the first game of the series.
 
The Highlanders and Giants will play a doubleheader tomorrow afternoon in La Plume. Game One is slated to begin at 12:00 p.m.