From University of Rochester Athletics
The University of Rochester baseball team split a Liberty League doubleheader with Bard College on Sunday, walking off to win game one, 6-5, before seeing its seven-game winning streak snapped with a 10-5 loss in game two.
The Yellowjackets are 17-13 overall, 10-6 in the Liberty League. Bard is 9-23, 4-12. Looking at the conference standings after Sunday, Rochester sits one game back in a 2nd place tie with Vassar and Union while Clarkson holds down the top spot with a 11-5 Liberty League record. The entire conference is bunched up, with RPI at 9-7, St. Lawrence at 10-10 and RIT at 7-9 in the league.
Rochester scored five runs in the first three innings of the opener and led 5-3 through three. They scored one in the first when Matt Todd doubled and later scored on a single by Nolan Schultz. After Bard tied it in the top of the second, the Jackets scored two more in the bottom of the frame. An infield single by Jake Meyerson plated Dan Warren, who had walked, and a fielder's choice grounder by Grant Kilmer scored Meyerson to make it 3-1.
The Raptors responded again with two in the top of the third to tie it, but Rochester made it 5-3 with a pair of unearned runs – the key hit a two-out double by Pete Carrier – in the bottom of the third.
Bard picked up single runs in the fifth and sixth to tie it, so it was 5-5 headed to the bottom of the seventh in a seven-inning game.
Matt Todd reached on an error, and Steve Eychner moved him to second with a sacrifice bunt. Schultz reached on a bunt single to load the bases, and Aiden Finch won it with a single to center.
Kevin Ho (1-2) picked up the win with 1.2 innings of hitless relief. John Ghyzel got the start, yielding three earned runs on eight hits over 5.1 innings. Carrier went 3-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored; Schultz went 2-for-3 with a walk, an RBI and a run scored.
In game two, Bard scored seven runs in the final three innings to snap a seven-game losing streak.
After scoring an unearned run in the bottom of the third and seeing Bard tie it in the top of the fourth, the Jackets put together a three-run bottom of the fourth. Consecutive singles by Warren, Ryan Spurr and Carrier made it 2-1, and a two-run double by Jake Meyerson made it 4-1.
Bard scored twice in the fifth to cut the lead to 4-3, but a triple by Luke Meyerson and a single by Kilmer made it 5-3 in the bottom of the sixth.
The Raptors rallied with two outs in the top of the seventh, scoring four times on the strength of back-to-back homers by Alec Montecalvo and Adam Carafotes. Bard tacked on a run in the eighth and two in the ninth to win the game, 10-5.
Jake Meyerson (2 RBI) and Warren each went 2-for-4, and Finch went 3-for-5. Luke Meyerson took the loss in relief.