Purchase, N.Y. – The Mount Saint Mary College Baseball team continued Skyline Conference play on Tuesday evening, splitting a road set at Purchase. The Knights dropped game one 4-2, but rebounded to score at 12-3 game victory over the Panthers. Senior Blake Keenan (Fishkill, N.Y.) belted his team leading third home run of the season in the Mount's victory.
 
Game 1: Purchase 4 – Mount Saint Mary 2
The Knights got off to a quick start in the opener, plating a run in their first at-bat to jump in front 1-0. John Santana (Warwick, N.Y.) ripped a two-out double to start the rally and Christopher Introcaso (Newburgh, N.Y.) chased him home with a single to open the scoring.
 
The one run lead held until the home half of the fifth inning when the Panthers plated a pair of runs. Purchase loaded the bases with no one out and got on the board following a bases loaded walk from Gregory Walsh. The Panthers jumped in front 2-1 a batter later when Dylan Flynn delivered a run on a sacrifice fly.
 
Purchase spread it leads to 4-1 in the seventh when Brian Cunningham delivered a two-run, two-out double. The Mount got a run closer in the ninth on a sacrifice fly from Kevin Edgar (Southampton, N.Y.),  but could not get another base runner in the inning.
 
Tom Huvane (Eastchester, N.Y.) finished the opener 2-for-4 with Santana and Keenan each recording a double and scoring a run, with Introcaso and Edar driving in the only runs for the Knights.
 
Jake Stewart (Wallkill, N.Y.) suffered the tough luck loss for the Mount, working 7.0 strong innings. He fell to 2-2 on the season after allowing four runs on seven hits.
 
Game 2: Mount Saint Mary 12 – Purchase 3
After falling behind 2-0 after two innings in game two, the Knights scored in four straight at-bats, plating two runs in the third, a single run in the fourth, six in the fifth and three more in the sixth. The Mount pounded out 14 hits in the game and featured five players with multiple safeties in the contest.
 
Mount Saint Mary got the game even in the second when Edgar scored on a wild pitch and Anthony Rizzo (Smithtown, N.Y.) delivered Nick Rizzo (Smithtown, N.Y.) with a one out single. The Knights moved in front for good in the game an inning later when Keenan blasted his third home run of the season to give the Mount a 3-2 lead.
 
The Knights broke the game open in the fifth when they strung together four hits, including a two-run double from Introcaso. Anthony Rizzo, Santana and Steven Bauer (Goshen, N.Y.) all drove in runs in the frame for the Mount.
 
After Purchase plated a run in the home half of the fifth, the Knights scored three more times in the sixth to finish off the scoring in the game. Santana, Introcaso and Bauer all recorded run scoring base hits for the Knights.
 
Nick and Anthony Rizzo along with Santana and Introcaso all finished game two 2-for-4 with two runs scored. Antony Rizzo and Santana both drove in two runs with Introcaso driving in three. Introcaso moved his team-high RBI total to 30 on the season. Huvane rounded out the win 2-for-3 with a run with Bauer picking up a hit and driving in two runs.
 
Michael DiGiovanni (Shirley, N.Y.) earned his first career win in relief in game two, coming on to work 4.0 innings. He allowed a single run on three hits and struck out seven.
 
Tuesday's split moves Mount Saint Mary to 17-8 overall on the season and to 9-3 in Skyline Conference play. Next up for the Knights is a home league set with St. Joseph's-Brooklyn on Saturday. First pitch with the Bears is scheduled for 12:00 p.m.