SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY- The University of Rochester baseball team closed its Liberty League conference scheduled by sweeping a doubleheader against Skidmore College on Sunday afternoon.
UR (23-14, 16-8 Liberty League) won game one by a 6-1 score and topped the Thoroughbreds (9-21, 3-15 Liberty League) by an 11-6 score in the nightcap. Rochester currently sits in second place in the conference standings and is the only Liberty League school to complete all of its scheduled conference games.
Junior pitcher
Rob Mabee pitched a strong outing for Rochester in game one, lifting the Yellowjackets to victory. Mabee tossed six plus innings, allowed five hits, one unearned run, while walking two and striking out two. He improves to 2-2 on the season.
The 'Jackets were able to score runs in each of the four innings from the 3rd on. Senior
Nate Mulberg scored in the 3rd on a fielding error on Skidmore which was followed up with
Lance Hamilton singling in
Ethan Sander, putting UR up 2-0.
In the fourth,
Brendan Garry scored on a wild pitch. The 5th inning saw Hamilton again drive in Sander, notching the sophomore's 13th RBI in the last five games.
Tyler DeClerck then backed that up with an RBI base hit, scoring Hamilton. Sander drove in freshman
Will Conroy in the sixth to complete Rochester's scoring.
Game two saw the Yellowjackets jump out to an early lead and hang on for the doubleheader sweep. Rochester scored five times in the first.
Josh Ludwig provided an RBI single, DeClerck singled in two more runs and sophomore
Jake Meyerson added a 2-RBI double.
The second inning brought more scoring from the usual suspects as DeClerck doubled in Garry and Meyerson provided a sacrifice fly to boost the UR lead to 7-0 after two. DeClerck ended the game 2-3 at the plate with 3 runs and 3 RBI.
Skidmore answered with four straight runs. Marco Baratta homered in the 3rd and provided a sac fly in the fourth. Also in the fourth, Jeb Clarke and Josh Brown provided RBI hits.
Brandon Heinrich doubled in two Rochester runs in the fourth and Sander added a sacrifice fly to boost the Yellowjacket lead back up to 10-4. Heinrich finished 3-4 with 3 RBI in game two.
Baratta clobbered his second homer of the day in the fifth, trimming the lead to 10-6, but Heinrich singled up the middle in the sixth, adding an insurance run for Rochester.
On the mound,
Ethan McGowan picked up the win in five innings of relief of starter
Matt Todd. McGowan allowed three hits, two runs and one walk while striking out two. Todd tossed three innings, gave up five hits, four runs and one walk while striking out three.
Grant Petito pitched a scoreless ninth for Rochester.
The Yellowjackets end their regular season on Tuesday with a game at the College at Brockport.
