University of Rochester Athletics

After stranding 13 runners through the first nine innings, the University of Rochester scored four runs with two out in the top of the 10th and that sparked an 8-4 victory over St. Lawrence University at Towers Field on the River Campus Sunday afternoon.
 
Coupled with a 7-5 win in game one of the twinbill, Rochester improved to 6-2 in the Liberty League, 6-8 overall. St. Lawrence is 1-7 in the Liberty League and 2-14 overall.
 
All four games in the series came down to the last inning with the trailing team having a chance to tie or to win. Rochester swept on Saturday (as the home team), 7-6 and 16-13.
 
Game Two: 8-4 UR (10 innings.)
The big hits in game two Sunday were a wind-blown pop fly double by Jack Herman with the bases loaded and a two-run line drive single one batter later by David Rieth. That made it 8-4.

Tyler McConway navigated through the SLU 10^th for the victory. The bases were loaded with two outs before he slipped a third strike past pinch-hitter Oscar Acavedo to end it. McConway evened his record at 1-1. He pitched 3.1 innings in relief of Jon Turk (6.2 IP, 6 hits, 2 runs, 1 earned run, 1 walk, 2 strikeouts). McConway yielded 2 hits, 2 runs (1 earned), walked 1, and fanned 1).
 
SLU's Will Fellows threw four strong innings before the Yellowjackets got to him in the 10th. Fellows relieved Evan Reichel (5 IP, 7 hits, 4 runs, 4 earned runs, 3 walks, 2 strikeouts). He came in to start the sixth with UR ahead 4-1.
 

The Saints nibbled for a run in the sixth – Brendon Frank singled home Taylor Digilio. They got two in the eighth – one unearned – to tie the score at 4-4.  A walk to Isaac Lewis and a grounder off Jack Herman's glove put runners on second and third with no outs. Evan O'Keefe was thrown out at first and Lewis, trailing the play, slid home with the third Saint run just beating the tag of Aiden Finch. James Cronin's sac fly scored Frank with the tying run.
 
In the 10th, Fellows struck out Aaron Craig and Corey Ziring flied to right center. Steve Pickering singled. Tyler Schmidt's single fell into right field with Pickering racing to third. With Finch at bat, Schmidt stole second in hopes of drawing a throw, but the Saints didn't bit. Finch drew a full-count walk to load the bases. Herman hit a twisting fly into short right field that fell in. Pickering and Schmidt scored with Finch getting to third. Fellows was relieved by Beau Yarmeko and Rieth greeted him with a sharp single to left that brought home two more runs.
 
Rochester scored one in the first. Pickering tripled and scored on Schmidt's bounceout. Herman's sac fly in the third made it 2-0. Pickering's single in the fourth scored Kyle Tromblay (3-1). He walked, stole second, and took third on a wild pitch, then scored on the flyout.
 
Finch was hit by a pitch in the fifth and eventually scored on Trombley's single to center. But that was it until the 10th. SLU's pitching kept the bats in check when scoring opportunities were there. Rochester left the bases loaded in the fifth and the seventh.
 
Game One: 7-5 UR
Rochester took advantage of six hit batsmen, six walks, and nine base hits to build a 7-2 lead through six innings. Will Conroy pitched 2 batters into the seventh. He gave up six hits, 4 runs (2 earned), walked 1, and struck out 5. The win was his first of the year (1-0).
 
Beau Yaremko singled up the middle to start the SLU seventh and Reichel doubled to center to put two aboard. Kevin Ho relieved. He struck out Tyler Guido but the ball got away. Rieth's throw to Finch at first pulled him off the bag and loaded the bases. Digilio walked to foce in one run. Lewis forced Digilio at second for the first out with Reichel scoring (7-4). Frank's single to center brought home Guido and got the Saints within 7-5. Evan O'Keeffe was hit by a pitch, but Ho escaped for his first save of the year. He inducted a grounder to Craig and that turned into a 4-6-3 double play. Ho's line was 1 IP, 1 hit, 1 run (unearned), 1 walk, 1 strikeout.
 
Alex Black took the loss for the Saints (1-2). In 3.1 IP, he yielded 4 hits, 4 runs (all earned), walked 4, struck one 2, and hit 5. Ryan Carson, the third Saint pitcher, hit 1 batter for a total of 6. Conroy and Ho each one.
 
Rochester scored three in the top of the second, aided by two walks and three HBPs. Craig (single), Finch (HBP), and Herman (walk) got the RBIs. Herman got another RBI in the fourth, scoring Schmidt who was hit by a pitch, took second on a Finch single, and scored on Herman's grounder up the middle. RBI singles by Craig and Rieth made it 6-2 in the fifth. Herman scored the seventh UR run in the sixth after a throwing error.
 
From The Stat Sheet: Trombley stole four bases in game one – one shy of tying the UR single-game record for an individual… In game two, the Yellowjackets had eight stolen bases – two apiece for Owen Gabbey, Rieth, and Trombley, one each for Pickering and Schmidt.