Eastlake, Ohio (5/31/25) – The Kean University baseball team stayed alive with a dominant pitching performance from All-American Jason Gilman, eliminating top seeded Johns Hopkins University, 5-3.
HOW IT HAPPENED:
The Cougars (41-10) threatened in their first at-bat, loading the bases with one out. But Kiernen Collins was able to work out of trouble with a strikeout and fly out to keep Kean off the board.
The Blue Jays (44-5) scored first in their half of the third. Jake Siani reached on a fielding miscue and later advanced to second on a balk. An infield single moved him 90 feet away and a sac fly was all that was needed to push across the first run of the game.
Kean responded in the top of the fifth with a leadoff single from Justin Teixeira. He moved around the bases with a sac and error and crossed the plate on an RBI groundout from Kyle Adorno. Tyler Stone worked a walk to put two runners aboard and Dan Reistle gave Kean the lead with an RBI single. Stone also scored on the play after the Blue Jays tried unsuccessfully tried to get Reistle at second. Stone went on the throw and it appeared Stone was out at the plate, but JHU was called for blocking the plate without the ball, allowing Stone to score.
Siani got one back for the Blue Jay in the bottom of the same inning, with a long solo homer to right.
Reistle answered again in the top of the seventh with a two out, RBI single to push Kean's advantage out to 4-2.
The back-and-forth scoring continued as Siani launched his second homer of the game, again a solo shot, to pull back within one (4-3).
The Cougars added a big insurance run in the eighth with an RBI single off the bat of Dominic Masino.
Gilman shut the door the rest of the way, facing the minimum and capping off the game with his 14th strikeout of the day, ironically to Siani, who had the most success off him in the contest.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS:
Gilman (14-1) tossed a complete game, allowing no walks and two earned runs.
Offensively Reistle, Masino and Teixeira all had two hits for Kean.
For just the third time all season, the Cougars were held to no extra-base hits.
UP NEXT:
Kean will face Endicott in a rematch on Sunday at 4:45 p.m.
