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Box Score 2 ROCHESTER, NY (April 12, 2015) – The Rochester Institute of Technology plated 26 runs over two games Sunday, as the Tigers handed the Vassar College baseball team a pair of Liberty League losses with scores of 11-2 and 15-1 in action from Tiger Stadium.
RIT 11, Vassar 2The Tigers posted eight runs in the top of the seventh in game one of the day, opening up a 3-2 lead in earning the first win of the afternoon. Vassar jumped on the board in the bottom of the first inning, as
Nick Johnson (San Francisco, CA/St. Ignatius Prep) knocked in junior
Brooks English (Milton, MA/Milton Academy) with a single.
RIT responded with two runs in the second and a single score in the third to take a 3-1 lead going into the bottom of the third. VC pulled to within one in the bottom half of the frame, as freshman
Bobby Kinne (Great Barrington, MA/Monument Mountain Regional) drove in a run with a groundout.
In the last at-bat of the game for RIT, the Tigers sent 13 batters to the plate, scoring eight times on six hits to clinch the win. Vassar posted three hits on the game, as English, Johnson and
Matt Hernandez (Corona, CA/Eleanor Roosevelt) each singled. Vassar starter
Jonathan Hong (Orinda, CA/Miramonte) allowed just one earned run and four hits over six innings, fanning six Tiger hitters.
RIT 15, Vassar 1Rochester Institute of Technology scored multiple runs in the first four innings, as the Tigers were able to complete the sweep of Vassar in game two. VC was able to get on the board in the bottom of the eighth inning, as
Cory Wuenschell (Pittsburgh, PA/Mt. Lebanon) doubled in a run but that was all the Brewers could push across.
Senior
Jason Garfinkel (Encino, CA/Harvard-Westlake) had two hits for the Brewers, and English extended his streak of reaching base safely to 10 games with a double. Freshman
Eric Strickland (Round Rock, TX/Round Rock) also walked, singled and scored a run for the Brewers in the loss. Hernandez tossed 1.1 innings of scoreless relief, striking out a pair of Tiger hitters.
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The Brewers will continue Liberty League play this Wednesday afternoon at 2:15 p.m. in Saratoga Springs, NY, battling Skidmore College for two games on Castle Diamond.
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