From University of Rochester Athletics

Rochester erupted for seven runs on seven hits in the fifth inning and went on to a 13-4 victory over D'Youville College at Towers Field on Thursday evening.
 
That broke open what had been a close ballgame through the first four innings. The Yellowjackets improved to 23-8 overall. Last Sunday, the Yellowjackets had a 17-game winning streak snapped with a 5-2 loss at Vassar College. D'Youville has lost five in a row and stands at 5-16 overall.
 
Down 2-0 through three, D'Youville scored four runs in the top of the fourth to take a 4-2 lead. Rochester answered with four in its half – two coming on an inside-the-park home run by Steve Eychner – and led, 6-4. The Yellowjackets did most of their fifth inning damage with two outs. They strung together three hits, a walk, and two more hits to stretch the advantage.
 
David Strandberg earned the win. He allowed five hits, four runs (two earned), walked two, and struck out five. Michael Lee pitched three scoreless innings, giving up two hits, walking two, and striking out six. Grant Petito and a 1-2-3 inning in the ninth without the ball leaving the infield.
 
Brian Mattina-Chmiel threw the first 4.2 innings for D'Youville. He allowed seven hits, nine runs (seven earned) and walked five. Jeff Turner finished up, going 3.1 innings. He gave up five hits, four runs (all earned), walked three, and struck out three. After a rocky beginning (four hits and a walk among his first five hitters), Turner settled down. He gave up just two walks and a single in the last three innings.
 
Rochester scored a fortunate two runs in the first. Sam Slutsky walked and stole second. Brian Munoz lifted  fly ball to right field where Jordan Ianarelli reached up for it. The ball struck his glove, bounced off, and rolled to the base of the right field wall for a four-base error that scored both men.
 
Mattina-Chmiel held Rochester to a pair of walks over the next two innings and D'Youville found its offense in the fourth. With one down, Eric Simoncelli walked. Travis Macrides singled up the middle, and Chris Ferril boomed a triple down the left field line that tied the score. Nick Stimpfel bounced back to Strandberg on the mound. He looked Ferril back to third, then threw out the hitter. Ianarelli's fly to left center was dropped by Josh Ludwig for a two-base error that scored Ferril. Louis Reynolds singled to left center, scoring Ianarelli and putting the Spartans in front, 4-2.
 
Rochester answered quickly. With Tyler Schmidt on second courtesy of a walk and a sacrifice, Eychner lashed a line drive into the right centerfield gap. Schmidt scored and Eychner slid home before the relay could reach the plate. Slutsky singled and stole second again. Munoz tripled down the right field line and scored on Brendan Garry's sac fly.
 
In the Yellowjacket fifth, Sam Steele's sac fly brought home one run. Eychner tripled to left for an 8-4 lead (Schmidt scored the run). Turner replaced Mattina-Chmiel. Slutsky singled for an RBI and took second when the ball was bobbled. He scored on another Munoz triple and a wild pitch brought home Munoz for an 11-4 lead. Garry stole two bases (he finished with three steals) and scored on a single by Nolan Schultz. Pinch-hitter Matt Todd singled him to third.
 
Todd stole second – Rochester swiped seven bases in all. The ball was thrown into centerfield and Schultz crossed the plate with the final Yellowjacket run.
 
For D'Youville, Ianarelli was 2-4 with one run scored. Ferrill had the two RBIs on the triple. Four other players had one hit.
 
For Rochester, Eychner's home run and triple produced three RBIs for him on a 2-4 evening. Munoz drove home two runs, had two hits, and scored three times. Slutsky was 2-2 with three runs scored. Todd finished 2-2 at the plate.