Game 1: Union 6, Rochester 17 |
Game 2: Union 7, Rochester 9
ROCHESTER, NY -- Senior
John Johnson went 3-for-3 with three RBI during the second game of the Union College baseball team's doubleheader at Rochester to open the Liberty League season. The Dutchmen lost 17-6 during the first affair and fell 9-7 during the night cap. Union goes to 3-8 overall and 0-2 in the conference, while Rochester improves to 11-3 on the season and 5-0 in the league.
Rochester's Steve Just drive in five runs for his team in the opener. He was 2-for-3 and scored twice. He had a two-run single in the third, then hit a three-run home run in the fifth. Andy Cannon was 3-for-3 with three runs scored. Alex Caghan and Nate Stein also scored three runs apiece for the Yellowjackets. Rochester scored 12 runs in its first three at-bats, half of them unearned.
Dan Ludwig pitched three-hit ball over five innings to pick up his third win of the year. He walked three and struck out two. He gave up one earned run. Union jumped on reliever D.J. Schwartz in the sixth, scoring five runs on four hits and one error. Johnson hit a three-run home run and four batters later, junior
Anthony Cassese followed with a two-run shot.
Freshman
Phil Kemp (1-1) took the loss for Union. After giving up four runs in the first (two unearned), he was undone by a combination of three walks and two hits in the second. Freshman
Cody Portin pitched the last five innings for the Dutchmen.
In game two, Rochester burst to a 7-0 lead through four innings. The key hit was a grand slam home run in a five-run fourth by Stein. Union scratched out three unearned runs in its half of the fifth, only to see Rochester get one back on a double by Matt Francis, a stolen base, and a wild pitch. Cannon singled home a run in the seventh, stretching the lead to 9-3.
Nate Kowal gave up only four hits in eight innings with one walk, eight strikeouts, and no earned runs allowed. The loss went to Union's junior Andy Catellier. He allowed six hits, seven runs (five earned), and walked two in three and two-thirds innings.
The Dutchmen made it interesting in the top of the ninth against reliever Ned Chanatry. Two walks and a single loaded the bases. Chanatry struck out freshman
Marc Douglas. Freshman
Dylan Katz-Wicks singled to left. Junior
Dane Flavin scored, but senior
Andy Brown was thrown out at the plate. Junior
Jarid Hotaling was hit by a pitch, re-loading the bases. Johnson walked, forcing home freshman
Joe Privitera (9-5). Senior
Paul Mene singled to right, scoring two and putting runners on the corners (9-7). Corey King replaced Chanatry on the mound and struck out pinch hitter
Tyler Heck to end the game.
The two teams will return to the diamond against each other on Sunday, April 4 for a pair at noon.
