Newburgh, N.Y. – The Mount Saint Mary College Baseball team won a pair of pitcher's duals on Sunday afternoon, winning both ends of a doubleheader against Maritime by identical 2-1 scores. Senior Blake Keenan (Fishkill, N.Y.) posted the win in game one, working his third straight complete game.
 
Game 1: Mount Saint Mary 2 – Maritime 1
Keenan allowed 10 hits in the opener, but no extra bases hits, and walked only one as he won his fourth straight decision for the Knights. He worked around a bases loaded jam in the third and a second and third situation in the sixth and got two double play groundballs in the game to keep the Privateers off the board until the seventh inning. Keenan stands at 5-0 on the season with a team best 2.14 earned run average.
 
Mount Saint Mary broke a scoreless tie in the fourth when Christopher Introcaso (Newburgh, N.Y.) launched his third home run of the season out to left field with two outs in the inning to get the Mount in front 1-0.
 
The one run lead stood until the seventh when Travis Zurita singled through the middle with one out to deliver Shane Sullivan, tying the game at 1-1. The run stopped a string of 17 scoreless innings for the Knights starting with the six inning of game one in Saturday's set with St. Joseph's-Brooklyn.
 
The game remained deadlocked at 1-1 until the bottom of the ninth when the Knights got a leadoff walk from Kevin Edgar (Southampton N.Y.). Following a sacrifice bunt from Chris McLaren (Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y.), freshman Jack Goodwin (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) shot a base hit over the first baseman's head to deliver pinch runner Justin Maldonado (Cold Spring, N.Y.) with the game winning run.
 
Goodwin, Introcaso and Keenan each finished the opener with two hits, with Keenan recording a double. Introcaso equaled the team lead with his third home run and pushed his team leading RBI total to 32.
 
Game 2: Mount Saint Mary 2 – Maritime 1
The Knights got all the scoring they would need in their first two at-bats of game two. Steven Mirra (Wallingford, Conn.) reached on an error to start the first inning and later scored when he swiped third and advanced home on a throwing error.
 
The Mount's lead doubled an inning later after stringing together three hits. Anthony Rizzo (Smithtown, N.Y.) delivered the eventual game winning run with two outs in the inning when he pushed home McLaren with a two-out single.
 
The two run advantage held until the sixth inning when the Privateers scored and had the potential tying run thrown out at the plate. Back-to-back singles gave Maritime two runners on and one out and following an errant throw on a force attempt, Phil Russo scored and Steve Semler was cut down at the plate on a relay throw from right field.
 
McLaren and Goodwin finished game two with a pair of his, with Goodwin ripping a double. Mirra and McLaren scored the runs with Rizzo producing the lone RBI of the game. Keenan reached twice in the game with a single and after getting hit with a pitch.
 
Junior Christian Spano (Mahopac, N.Y.) moved to 3-1 on the season for the Knights in his fourth start of the season. He worked 5.1 innings for the Knights, allowing a single unearned run on five hits. Michael DiGiovanni (Shirley, N.Y.) picked up his second save in as many days, recording the final five outs and fanning one.
 
Saturday's sweep pushes Mount Saint Mary to 21-8 overall on the season and to 13-3 in Skyline Conference play. The Knights will start a stretch of three straight non-conference games on Tuesday when they head to Manhattanville for a 4:00 p.m. contest with the Valiants.