CANTON, N.Y. – Rochester split a Liberty League doubleheader against St. Lawrence on Thursday afternoon. The Yellowjackets produced 15 hits in game one, an 8-1 victory, but were held to seven hits in game two, a 2-1 loss.
A seventh inning rally in second game fell just short. The offense was held in check for the first six innings (five hits). Rochester stranded seven runners in the first five innings. UR had the bases loaded in the third with a two-out rally: singles by
Sammi Re and
Alizah Ayon, and a walk to
Jen Carson. SLU's Gabby Slater induced
Jessica Conforti to pop out to shot to end the inning.
In the UR seventh,
Marissa Russo doubled down the left field line. .
Harleigh Kaczegowicz hit a fly ball to center field that was dropped. Russo had to hold. Re grounded to third with the runners advancing. Ayon grounded a single up the middle. SLU's McKailey Lyndaker knocked it down. Russo scored, but Lyndaker threw out Kaczegowicz at the plate. Carson lined out to short ending the game.
Re had three hits and scored one run in the DH.
The loss went to
Hannah Leahy. In 4.2 innings, she allowed five hits, two earned runs, walked two, and fanned three. St. Lawrence left the bases loaded in the fourth and fifth innings when they scored one run each time.
Addy Szczerba pitched 1.1 innings of relief.
The split gives Rochester a Liberty League record of 5-3. UR is 15-13 overall. St. Lawrence grabbed its first Liberty League win of the season. The split puts the Saints at 1-9 in the league, 15-13 overall.
Elizabeth Bourne threw a six-hit complete-game victory over St. Lawrence in the opening game of the doubleheader. The games were originally scheduled for Friday. The DH was moved up one day with rain looming for Friday. The Saturday DH at Clarkson has not been changed.
Bourne scattered six hits – five singles and a double – hit one batter, and walked one. She stranded eight runners. She recorded eight strikeouts, a career high. Her previous high for Ks was seven – against St. Lawrence last season. She helped her own cause, going 2-4 at the plate. She singled in Rochester's first run in the second, the hit a leadoff triple in the sixth which ignited a three-run rally.
UR had a number of chances early, but mustered single runs in the second (Bourne's single scored Conforti), the third (Kaczegowicz doubled and came around on Carson's single), and the fifth (Re singled, stole second, moved to third on a groundout, and scored on Carson's second RBI of the game.
Kaczegowicz was 3-5, scored two runs, and knocked in one. Conforti had three hits, Carson and Re two.
