GAME ONE BOXSCORE GAME TWO BOXSCORE
The Keuka College baseball team picked up its first win of 2013 during Sunday's North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) home doubleheader with Gallaudet University.

Freshman Justyn Schuck (Hammondsport, NY/Hammondsport) went 4-for-4 with two of Keuka's (1-11, 1-3 NEAC) four triples, and sophomore Zach Nobles (Wayland, NY/Wayland-Cohocton) pitched a complete-game gem for the first win of his collegiate career as the Storm salvaged a split with Gallaudet, losing the first game 12-11 before winning the nightcap 11-4.

Junior Gavin Corbin (Endicott, NY/Union-Endicott) was 3-for-5 with an RBI triple, sophomore Jon Borchert (Upper Arlington, OH/Upper Arlington) was 2-for-4 with an RBI triple and freshman Tom Fowler (Batavia, NY/Batavia) was 2-for-3 with three RBI and a solo home run to power Keuka to its first win of the year.

"This is a really big stepping stone for what's about to come for this program," Corbin said after Keuka pounded out 16 hits in the win.

"We've been talking about getting our pitching, fielding and batting going at once and it finally came together today. Zach pitched a heck of a game, too. Hitting is contagious, once one guy gets going everyone else will get going behind him, too. Good things are going to happen for this team. We're hungry for wins, we're hungry for our conference schedule, we're just a really hungry team because of our past."

Nobles made the offensive explosion by Keuka's bats stand, allowing four runs on nine hits with nine strikeouts to earn his first win.

The Storm scored five first-inning runs, keyed by Corbin's RBI triple into center field, Borchert's triple to right-center field and RBI singles from junior Kyle McVannan (Endicott, NY/Union-Endicott) and sophomore Dylan Thomas (Kent, OH/Theodore Roosevelt).

Borchert led off the second with a double and scored on a throwing error for a six-run lead, and Fowler laced an RBI single into center to give Keuka a 7-0 lead heading into the top of the third.

Gallaudet (10-16, 2-2) got three runs back in the fourth, but the Storm answered with a run in the bottom of the inning on a fielder's choice, then Schuck tripled to lead off the fifth and scored on Corbin's single through the left side of the infield for a 9-3 lead.

The Storm polished off the win with a pair of runs in the sixth. Fowler led off the inning by crushing a pitch over the center field fence, and after Thomas walked and reached second on a wild pitch, Schuck plated Thomas with an RBI single up the middle.

Nobles, who struck out the side in the first inning, got a strikeout, a fly out and a pop out to end the game for his first win in 13 career appearances (five starts).

"I just started out with fastballs and located it, and that seemed to do the job for most of the outing," Nobles said. "This is my first college win and it feels amazing. We showed today that we've overcome all those frustrations (from our 10-game losing streak) and that we're all ready to come together and work on our main goal, which is to win some ball games. Our hitters did a great job today of putting runs on the board and gave me the ability to keep the other team from scoring."

In a back-and-forth game one, the Bison took a four-run lead into the bottom of the seventh.

Chase Hicks hit a leadoff triple and Chris Guinn smacked an RBI double to start the inning before J.J. Klein added a two-run single and the Bison scored on an error to put Gallaudet up 12-8.

Keuka rallied in the bottom of the inning. With one out, freshman Kyle Dailey (Yonkers, NY/Yonkers) doubled to left and advanced to third on McVannan's single through the left side. After a fielder's choice for the second out of the inning, Schuck hit an RBI double that plated Dailey andCorbin had a two-run single to left that scored Shuck and Thomas.

Borchert was hit by a pitch, giving the Storm runners at first and second with two outs, but a fly out to center ended the game.

The Storm took an early 2-0 lead on sophomore Conner Anderson's (Missoula, MT/Sentinel) double into center, but the Bison tied the score in the top of the second on a two-run single.

Keuka responded with three runs in the bottom of the second, thanks to RBI singles from Corbin and Borchert and an RBI double from senior Keith Prestano (Queens, NY/Xaverian).

The Green and Gold tacked on two more runs in the third on Thomas' two-run triple to left-center field, his fourth triple in the last six games, and freshman Billy McDermott (Clarks Summit, Pa./Abington Heights) put the Storm up 8-2 with an RBI single to center in the fourth.

But the Bison scored four times in the fifth and two more in the sixth to knot the score at 8, setting up the seventh-inning drama.

All nine Keuka starters recorded a hit in game one, led by Corbin (3-for-5, three RBI), and Thomas, McVannan, Dailey, and McDermott, who had two hits apiece.

Keuka hosts RIT at 3 p.m. Wednesday in a nine-inning, non-conference game.