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Keystone Baseball Runner Up for National Championship

LA PLUME — Classes may be over at Keystone College, but people came out to the campus to celebrate after the baseball team made it all the way to Division...
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LA PLUME -- Classes may be over at Keystone College, but people came out to the campus to celebrate after the baseball team made it all the way to Division III National Championship for the first time in school history.

The team arrived back on campus Wednesday afternoon in front of a crowd of faculty, staff, parents, and students.

The season finally came to a close for the Keystone Giants baseball team as it rolled back onto campus, and at first glance, you wouldn't have known the final score of the championship game.

"We were just a blip on the radar. Not a lot of people nationally thought we had a shot to get there. So it's a little more special for us to get to the College World Series and to make the run into the College World Series than some of the other teams that were there," said Keystone head coach Jamie Shevchik.

The Giants lost in the Division III National Championship to the Trinity Tigers, a team from Texas.

"We got to the point that we got, I'm very proud of my teammates, my coaches and of me," said senior Felix Baez.

The baseball team finished up the historic season Tuesday after making it all the way to the College World Series Championship in Wisconsin.

If you talk to the players, they'll admit it wasn't the way they wanted to end it, but they have the most successful season in school history, trumping the 2011 team, the only other one to make it to the College World Series.

"It's all they talked about, making it to the World Series. That's the goal. Every year it's the goal, we weren't able to accomplish it. Now senior year, we accomplish it and it's the second time in history that we made it there.   It's an unbelievable feeling," said senior Louis Reyes.

With classes and commencement all over already, the question now becomes can this baseball team make it back to the College World Series next season?

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