LA PLUME, PA – The Cairn Highlanders baseball team went to battle against the Keystone College Giants to close their conference series on Monday, dropping both games on getaway day, 4-1 and 7-1.
GAME ONE
The Highlanders got on the board first once again, started off by a two-out double from sophomore catcher
Zach Bauers (Cooper City, FL / Cooper City). Junior first baseman
Tyler Warr (Langhorne, PA / Neshaminy) walked to get Bauers into scoring position before junior outfielder
Will Wikner (Gaithersburg, MD / Shenandoah University) scored him on a single to right field, putting Cairn (7-9 / 3-3 UNITED EAST SKYE DIVISION) ahead 1-0.
Keystone (11-5 / 3-0 UNITED EAST SKYE DIVISION) answered back in the fourth, playing small ball and bringing in the tying run with a single. In the sixth, the Giants took the lead, scoring three in the frame on three hits and an error. Keystone would hold the Highlanders scoreless in the seventh as they took game one, 4-1.
Bauers had two hits and a run, going 2-4 in the game.
GAME TWO
Keystone jumped on the scoring train in the first inning, bringing across a pair of runs to take a 2-0 lead. They added a solo homer in the second a fourth run in the third by way of a pair of stolen bases. In the fifth, the Giants went ahead 7-0 on five hits and an error. The Highlanders scratched a run across in the top of the eighth as fifth year right fielder
Tyler Fox (Boyertown, PA / West-Mont Christian Academy) walked to lead off the inning, followed by a single by Bauers and Wikner reaching on a walk to load the bases with two outs. Junior designated hitter
Tyler Harris (Oxford, PA / Oxford Area HS) scored Fox on an RBI walk.
Bauers added another hit on the day with freshman centerfielder
Zachary Johnson (Hawaii Kai, HI / TCS Post Grad Academy) collecting a pair of hits. Sophomore lefty
Nick Benson (Philadelphia, PA / Father Judge) pitched 3.1 scoreless innings in relief, striking out three and allowing only three hits.
The Highlanders will cross over to the Volt Division on Tuesday as they face the Penn College Wildcats in Williamsport at 1 & 3:30 p.m. EDT.