PITTSFORD, NY – Just four days after being swept in a doubleheader, the University of Rochester returned to St. John Fisher College and posted a 9-1 victory over the Cardinals. The win gave Rochester a 3-2 record while Fisher is now 6-2.
 
This was a good confidence booster with Ithaca College coming to the River Campus on Saturday afternoon for a non-league DH against UR. The teams will play doubleheaders on a home-and-home basis Saturday and Sunday. UR goes to Ithaca on Sunday.
 
With four key games approaching, Rochester coach Joe Reina was flexible with his pitching staff. He used eight pitchers. The only man to throw more than one inning was Spencer Rojahn. He fanned three Cardinals in two innings of work late in the game. The win went to Hank Powers who started. Powers pitched the first inning only, allowing a walk and a hit batsman with one strikeout. The game featured five HBPs – four by Fisher, one by Rochester (Rojahn).
 
Aaron Whitley was hit twice, walked once, and had one hit. He turned all that time on base into four runs scored. After Whitley was hit to start the game, Joe Rende followed with a two-run HR to left field. In the third, Whitley singled, stole second, moved to third on a wild pitch, then scored on a sacrifice fly by John Moses.
 

He walked in the seventh, moved to second on a wild pitch and when another pitch was thrown way, he came home to score. Moses hit a two-run single in the ninth. Jacob Matzat had a run-scoring single, and Josh Leadem hit a sacrifice fly.
 
Powers was followed on the hill by Dillon Bevan, Dan Agate, and Luke Boylan. Nate Slenska was the first UR hurler to allow a hit. Beimel singled leading off the fifth. Slenska retired the next three hitters on fly balls to right field.
 
Thomas Blaydes yielded a one-out single in the sixth. He earned a strikeout, then threw a wild pitch (the runner took second) to offer some hope to the home team it might score (with UR ahead by just 3-0). Blaydes ended the inning with a groundout.
 
UR tacked on two more in the seventh. Reed lined a one-out double to left. Whitley walked and was wild-pitched to second with Reed going to third. Rende walked to fill the bases. Moses popped up, but another wild pitch scored both Reed and Whitley for the 5-0 edge.