From University of Rochester Athletics

The University of Rochester broke out the bats in a big way on a chilly Sunday afternoon, posting two high-scoring baseball wins over Bard College in a Liberty League doubleheader at Towers Field. The Yellowjackets defeated the Raptors, 16-9, in game one and took the nitecap, 21-7.
 
Rochester improved to 7-7 overall, 3-1 in the Liberty League. Sunday's run production marked the fourth time in the last five games that Rochester scored 10 or more runs. Rochester lost to second-ranked Cortland, 15-11, here on Wednesday. The Yellowjackets split with the Raptors on Saturday. Rochester won the opener, 12-4, and Bard won game two, 4-2. Bard is 3-12 overall, 1-7 in the Liberty League.
 

Brian Munoz had six RBIs and hit his first two career home runs – both in game two. Brendan Garry and Tyler Schmidt had five RBIs apiece. In all, Rochester accumulated 37 hits in the two games and hit six home runs – two by Munoz in game two, two by Garry (one in each game), and single HRs by Nolan Schultz and Slutsky.
 
For Bard, Adam Carafotes was 3-5 with 4 RBIs and two runs scored in the opener. Steve Marotta was 2-2, drove in 2 runs and scored two. Quinn McInerney had three RBIs in game two and Matt Lasky drove in two runs. Lee Perry was 3-4 with 2 runs scored.
 
Rochester's winning pitcher in game one was Luke Meyerson, the second reliever. John Ghyzel started, but was replaced after allowing four hits, three earned runs, and walking six in 3.1 innings. Bard reached Ethan McGowan for four hits, two walks, and six earned runs in the last two-thirds of the fourth inning and the first four batters of the fifth. Meyerson shut down the rally in the fifth. He gave up three hits and struck out one in the last three innings to pick up his first victory of the season.
 
J.P. Fisher took the loss for Bard in game one. In three innings, he allowed eight hits and walked two with two strikeouts. He allowed four earned runs (10 overall). Zach Hayes pitched three innings in relief and Kai Malowany pitched the final inning for Bard.
 
In the second game, Dan Warren evened his record for Rochester (he's 2-2) by scattering nine hits over five innings. He gave up seven runs (six earned), walked three, and struck out four. Michael Lee allowed one base hit in two innings and Evan Janifer was perfect in the eighth and ninth.
 
Michael Duffy started the nitecap for Bard. He left in the second inning (1.1 IP) after yielding five hits, three walks, four earned runs (seven overall) and striking out two. Steve Marotta went 4.2 innings, giving up 11 hits, nine runs (four were earned), with three walks and two strikeouts. Sam Grumet (2 IP) and Malowany (1 IP) finished up.
 
Rochester sent 12 men to the plate in the second inning of game one and scored eight runs – five unearned.  Munoz singled home two runs. Three batters later,  Garry's infield grounder with the bases loaded was booted, then thrown wildly past first. It cleared the bases. Slutsky hit a two-run HR in the sixth and Garry matched it in the seventh.
 
Bard scored four runs in each of the fourth and fifth innings, which led to Meyerson's relief appearance. Carafotes doubled home two runs in the fourth, then scored on Alec Montecalvo's double. In the fifth, Steve Marotta singled in two runs. Carafotes got the Raptors within 11-9 with a ground run double that scored two more. Bard managed only two more hits the rest of the way and Rochester pulled away.
 
In game two, Schultz hit for the cycle and Munoz homered twice to lead the attack. Schultz hit a two-run HR in the first, tripled in the third, singled in the sixth, and doubled in the seventh. Munoz hit two solo HRs – one in the second (increasing Rochester's lead to 5-0) and one in the fifth (which put the Yellowjackets ahead, 10-5).