SCHENECTADY, N.Y. - The Union College baseball concluded the 2015 season with a 12-9 win over Rochester in game two on Sunday afternoon. Kent Curran was 3-for-4 in the game with a bases clearing triple to finish with four RBIs. Junior Chris Carbone hit his first career home run and seniors Anders Goetz and CJ Worley combined for three hits in game two. Worley had both RBIs in Union's 3-2 loss in game one.

GAME 1 (L, 3-2)

Trailing 3-0 heading to the top of the seventh, the first five batters reached base as the Dutchmen tried to mount a comeback. Jamie Faber led off with a single through the left side and Curran followed with a single through the right side. After Jake Fishman reached on a fielder's choice and Matt Drum walked, Union had bases loaded and no one out. Worley dumped a Ron Mabee offering right in front of the centerfielder to bring home Faber and Fishman.

Following a Carbone fielder's choice, Goetz looked like he may have tied the game with a looping base hit over the second basemen's head but Rochester's Steve Eychner made a fantastic leaping grab to rob Goetz of a base hit to end the game.

Adam Ashenfarb tossed six innings with three runs (0 ER) allowed on seven hits. He had a career-high nine strikeouts (seven looking) including a stretch of four straight he got looking.

GAME 2 (W, 12-9)

Union got off to a 3-0 lead after two innings on a sac fly by Curran in the first and a run coming home on a fielder's choice by John McLaughlin and a run scoring double by Sam Kirschenbaum in the second inning.

The Yellowjackets, after threatening in the first, got to Chris Pignatello who was making his first career start in the second. Pignatello walked two and hit another in the inning to go with a lead off single before giving way to reliever Nick Williams. Brendan Garry greeted Williams by taking one of his first offerings over the left center wall for a grand slam to give Rochester a 5-3 lead.

Williams settled down by throwing five straight scoreless innings before running into trouble in the eighth to pick up his third win of the year and second straight victory.

Union cut the deficit to 5-4 in fifth before taking the lead with a five spot in the sixth. Jake Vesling tied the game with a single to left ot score McLaughlin and Fishman followed with a double to right to bring Kirschenbaum home. Two batters later, Curran looked like he hit the second grand slam of the game but just missed it by a few feet as the ball hit off the wall in right center. Vesling, Fishman and Faber all scored on the play as Curran hustled into third for a three-run triple to give Union a 9-5 lead.

Carbone made it 11-5 Dutchmen in the eigth as the junior OF hit his first career home run with a deep fly ball to left to bring home Drum.

Six of the first seven hitters reached base for Rochester in the eighth as the Yellowjackets rallied to make it 11-9 before Bill Christopher stopped the rally, getting the final batter of the innings with a strike out of pinch hitter Nolan Schultz.

Faber tripled to the right center wall in the ninth to score Fishman and to give Union an extra insurance run. Christopher retired three of the four batters, two by strikeouts, he faced in the bottom of the inning to record the four outs save. He now has a Liberty League leading six saves on the season.

Union finishes the year 21-15 overall and 13-11 in conference action.

Game Notes:
Union won 20+ games for the third straight season under Head Coach Paul Mound and it is just the fourth time in Dutchmen history that a team has recorded 20 or more victories during a season...Jake Fishman had three hits in game two to end the season with a .477 batting average, ranking first in the Liberty League and top 10 in the country.