SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Three different Owls finished with three-hit games, seven had multiple hits, and nine different people drove in a run as the Keene State College baseball team put together one of their most complete performances of the year so far, steamrolling Springfield College 19-1 in non-conference action Wednesday afternoon at Archie Allen Field.

KSC (7-9) recorded season-highs in both runs and hits (19) in a game this season and is now hitting an impressive .325 as a team with an .887 OPS.  In their last six games, they have scored 69 runs (nearly 12 per game) and have won three of their last four overall – their lone loss yesterday at the University of St. Joseph (Conn.) by one run after they led 6-3 in the eighth inning.

If the Owls had any major frustrations after the contest yesterday, they unleashed them in a big way today, taking a 4-0 lead in the second inning on a three-run blast to left for Evan McCue.  Springfield (9-5) got one back on Jack Dunaisky's solo shot in the bottom half of the inning, but the Pride had only four other hits in the game – all singles – and fell to 6-2 at home with their most lopsided loss in series history.  The Owls, meanwhile, tattooed 11 extra-base hits – six doubles, four triples, and a home run.

KSC blew the game open with a six-run third to take a 10-1 lead, including a two-run triple for Evan Cali and a two-run double by Derek Finlay.  Cali's smash in the right center gap came after Jonathan Chatfield singled to begin the inning and Mitchell Coffey worked a walk two batters later.  Cali fell just a home run short of the Owls' second cycle in five days, finishing 3-for-3 with a single, double, triple, two runs batted in, and a walk.  McCue drove in a game-high four runs in his 2-for-4 effort, while Trevor Snow set the table from the top of the order with a 3-for-5 effort that also featured two doubles, a triple, three runs batted in, and two runs scored.  Anthony DiGiacomo also had three hits, while Chatfield, Cam Baker, and Finlay all had two.  Alec Varano did not start but still drove in three runs as the Owls scored in seven of their nine offensive innings, including piling on nine runs over the final four innings.

The offensive onslaught is the fifth time on the season in 16 games they have reached double-figures and is the most they have scored since also putting up 19 in a 19-5 win at home over Vermont State University Castleton on April 16, 2024.  They had not put up that many on the road since a 25-1 pounding of Plymouth State University on April 9, 2021.

KSC also got solid work from five arms on the mound on this day, with Daniel Cantafi (1-0) being awarded the win for his two innings of one-hit ball with three strikeouts.  Trey Kuzmeski also fired two scoreless innings, while George Young and Dylan Ellison notched 12-pitch scoreless frames in the eighth and ninth, respectively.  Sean Egan allowed one run over the opening three innings, allowing two hits and three walks while whiffing two.  Down 1-0 in the first, Springfield worked two walks with two outs but Egan fanned Nicholas Lloyd to end the inning.  The home team's only other meaningful threat came in the second when Adam Crocker walked after Dunaisky's homer with nobody out and then moved to second with one out on Dan Surette's single, but Cali threw out Crocker at third on a pitch that got away and Egan got Chris Balchius to bounce to second.

Snow has eight runs batted in over his last three games and is 6-for-13 at the plate in that span, raising his average from .250 to .344.  He has seven extra-base hits in 10 games (six starts) so far this campaign.

"I am very pleased with how we swung the bats throughout the lineup," said KSC head coach Justin Blood.  "Really good swings all around.  Pitchers worked around some early walks and made some pitches when they needed to.  It shows what we are capable of."

The Owls will now gear up for their home opener when they take on the University of Massachusetts-Boston (8-7, 2-0 LEC) in a Little East Conference doubleheader on Sunday, March 29 at 12:00 p.m.  KSC snapped a long losing streak to the Beacons last year when they swept them in Keene, a pair of victories that seemingly helped become the catalyst for their sizzling April-into-May run.  UMB swept Western Connecticut State University 11-2 and 8-5 last weekend before falling to Tufts University 7-3 and beating Lasell University 20-14 the last two days.