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Photo by: Lianne Garrahan
Keys Hits For Cycle as Baseball Outlasts Mount St. Mary’s, 16-14
3/26/2024 9:05:00 PM | Baseball
EMMITSBURG, Md. – Sean Keys became the fourth player in Bucknell history to hit for the cycle as the Bucknell baseball team held off Mount St. Mary's 16-14 in a non-league game at E.T. Straw Family Stadium on Tuesday.
Bucknell spotted the Mountaineers early leads of 4-0 and 7-4 before surging ahead with six runs in the seventh inning and four more in the eighth. The Bison held a seemingly comfortable 16-9 lead going to the bottom of the eighth but had to hold off a late Mount rally, as senior Nikhil Patel retired Brayden Foster on a fly ball to center field with the tying run at second to register his first career save.
Keys went 4-for-5 with four runs batted in and three runs scored as the Bison piled up 17 hits off 11 Mount St. Mary's pitchers. Keys followed Luke Nascimento's three-run double with an RBI double of his own to tie the game at 4-4 in the fourth and get his cycle started. Keys' seventh home run of the season leading off the top of the sixth pulled the Bison within 7-6, and his two-run triple into the right-field corner highlighted Bucknell's six-run seventh inning.
Keys needed only the single to complete the cycle, and he got just that in the eighth when his chopper to the right side was fielded with a dive by first-baseman Shane Wockley, but he had no play on Keys at first. Bucknell's last cycle came from Bob Donato against Toledo in Winter Haven, Fla., in 2009. Coincidentally, Donato also finished off his cycle with a single. The only other cycles in team history came from Hall-of-Famer Ted Aceto against Pittsburgh in 1989 and Brian Hirschberg against Bloomsburg in 2003.
Michael Trommer, whose pinch-hit RBI single made it a 7-5 game in the fifth, ended up 3-for-4 on the day to extend his hitting streak to eight games. He is 16-for-28 (.571) over that span to raise his season average to .385. Jacob Corson, Tyler Dunn, Andrew Swenson, and Nascimento all had two-hit games, with Nascimento driving in a career-high four runs.
Bucknell's go-ahead rally in the seventh started when Swenson was hit by a pitch, followed by a Trommer double. Swenson scored the tying run on a wild pitch, and after a walk to Ben Sinins, Nascimento plated the go-ahead run with a sac fly. Corson walked, and then Keys smoked a ball into the right-field corner for a two-run triple to make it 10-7. Keys scored on Grant Voytovich's sac fly, and Swenson capped the six-run outburst with an RBI single later in the inning.
Corson, Voytovich, and Dunn all had RBI knocks in Bucknell's four-run eighth inning.
Bison lefty Nick Mulvey ran into some control problems in the eighth, as Mount St. Mary's scored three times on bases-loaded walks and another on a hit batsman with the bases full. Mulvey did strike out two in the inning and stranded the bases loaded when he retired 3-hole hitter JT Landwehr on a fly ball to right.
Patel entered with the bases loaded and one out in the ninth and retired the only two batters he faced. Ty Fredo's fly ball to right delivered the Mount's 14th run, and the two trail runners also advanced, moving the tying run into scoring position. But Patel shut the door as Voytovich hauled in Foster's fly ball to end the four-hour marathon.
Not to be forgotten among the 30 runs that crossed the plate was a strong relief outing from Bison freshman Jake Schultz, who was credited with his first collegiate win. Schultz worked 3.1 innings, allowing just a run on three hits while striking out six with no walks.
Landwehr and Wockley both had two hits for Mount St. Mary's, which scored its 14 runs on only nine hits, all of which were singles. The Mountaineers used 28 players in the mid-week contest, including the 11 pitchers.
This was Bucknell's second 16-14 game of the season. The Bison also defeated Saint Joseph's by the same score on March 2 at Depew Field.
Now 10-14 on the season, the Bison return to action this Saturday and Sunday with a three-game Patriot League series at Holy Cross. Bucknell and Holy Cross split a doubleheader in Lewisburg this past Sunday.
Bucknell spotted the Mountaineers early leads of 4-0 and 7-4 before surging ahead with six runs in the seventh inning and four more in the eighth. The Bison held a seemingly comfortable 16-9 lead going to the bottom of the eighth but had to hold off a late Mount rally, as senior Nikhil Patel retired Brayden Foster on a fly ball to center field with the tying run at second to register his first career save.
Keys went 4-for-5 with four runs batted in and three runs scored as the Bison piled up 17 hits off 11 Mount St. Mary's pitchers. Keys followed Luke Nascimento's three-run double with an RBI double of his own to tie the game at 4-4 in the fourth and get his cycle started. Keys' seventh home run of the season leading off the top of the sixth pulled the Bison within 7-6, and his two-run triple into the right-field corner highlighted Bucknell's six-run seventh inning.
Keys needed only the single to complete the cycle, and he got just that in the eighth when his chopper to the right side was fielded with a dive by first-baseman Shane Wockley, but he had no play on Keys at first. Bucknell's last cycle came from Bob Donato against Toledo in Winter Haven, Fla., in 2009. Coincidentally, Donato also finished off his cycle with a single. The only other cycles in team history came from Hall-of-Famer Ted Aceto against Pittsburgh in 1989 and Brian Hirschberg against Bloomsburg in 2003.
Michael Trommer, whose pinch-hit RBI single made it a 7-5 game in the fifth, ended up 3-for-4 on the day to extend his hitting streak to eight games. He is 16-for-28 (.571) over that span to raise his season average to .385. Jacob Corson, Tyler Dunn, Andrew Swenson, and Nascimento all had two-hit games, with Nascimento driving in a career-high four runs.
Bucknell's go-ahead rally in the seventh started when Swenson was hit by a pitch, followed by a Trommer double. Swenson scored the tying run on a wild pitch, and after a walk to Ben Sinins, Nascimento plated the go-ahead run with a sac fly. Corson walked, and then Keys smoked a ball into the right-field corner for a two-run triple to make it 10-7. Keys scored on Grant Voytovich's sac fly, and Swenson capped the six-run outburst with an RBI single later in the inning.
Corson, Voytovich, and Dunn all had RBI knocks in Bucknell's four-run eighth inning.
Bison lefty Nick Mulvey ran into some control problems in the eighth, as Mount St. Mary's scored three times on bases-loaded walks and another on a hit batsman with the bases full. Mulvey did strike out two in the inning and stranded the bases loaded when he retired 3-hole hitter JT Landwehr on a fly ball to right.
Patel entered with the bases loaded and one out in the ninth and retired the only two batters he faced. Ty Fredo's fly ball to right delivered the Mount's 14th run, and the two trail runners also advanced, moving the tying run into scoring position. But Patel shut the door as Voytovich hauled in Foster's fly ball to end the four-hour marathon.
Not to be forgotten among the 30 runs that crossed the plate was a strong relief outing from Bison freshman Jake Schultz, who was credited with his first collegiate win. Schultz worked 3.1 innings, allowing just a run on three hits while striking out six with no walks.
Landwehr and Wockley both had two hits for Mount St. Mary's, which scored its 14 runs on only nine hits, all of which were singles. The Mountaineers used 28 players in the mid-week contest, including the 11 pitchers.
This was Bucknell's second 16-14 game of the season. The Bison also defeated Saint Joseph's by the same score on March 2 at Depew Field.
Now 10-14 on the season, the Bison return to action this Saturday and Sunday with a three-game Patriot League series at Holy Cross. Bucknell and Holy Cross split a doubleheader in Lewisburg this past Sunday.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Schultz, Jake (1-3)
L: MOORE,T (1-2)
S: Patel, Nikhil (1)
Batting:
2B: Keys, Sean 1 ; Voytovich, Grant 1 ; Swenson, Andrew 1 ; Trommer, Michael 1 ; Sinins, Ben 1 ; Nascimento, Luke 1
3B: Keys, Sean 1
HR: Keys, Sean 1
RBI: Corson, Jacob 1 ; Keys, Sean 4 ; Voytovich, Grant 2 ; Dunn, Tyler 1 ; Swenson, Andrew 1 ; Trommer, Michael 1 ; Nascimento, Luke 4
SF: Voytovich, Grant 1 ; Nascimento, Luke 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Corson, Jacob 2 ; Keys, Sean 3 ; Voytovich, Grant 1 ; Dunn, Tyler 2 ; Alexander, Matt 1 ; Swenson, Andrew 2 ; Trommer, Michael 1 ; Sinins, Ben 3 ; Nascimento, Luke 1
SB: Dunn, Tyler 1
CS: Corson, Jacob 1
HBP: Swenson, Andrew 1
Batting:
RBI: LONG,T 1 ; SEEKER,S 2 ; LANDWEHR,JT 2 ; KRAMER,J 3 ; TIERNEY,A 1 ; FREDO,TY 3 ; BRAXTON,J 1
SH: LANDWEHR,JT 1
SF: KRAMER,J 1 ; FREDO,TY 1
Base Running:
RUNS: LONG,T 2 ; SEEKER,S 3 ; LANDWEHR,JT 3 ; KRAMER,J 1 ; WOCKLEY,S 1 ; STECKO,T 1 ; TIERNEY,A 1 ; FREDO,TY 1 ; BRAXTON,J 1
HBP: LONG,T 1 ; SEEKER,S 1 ; LANDWEHR,JT 1 ; KRAMER,J 1 ; BRAXTON,J 1
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