Fay Wins 500th as Saints Win Season Opener 6-5

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Tara Freeman

Tom Fay reached 500 career wins as the Saints opened the season in Florida on Saturday

St. Lawrence University baseball coach Tom Fay earned his 500^th career victory in the Saints 2010 season opener as SLU beat Olivet 6-5 in Fort Myers, FL to open their southern trip. Fay, whose first collegiate win came on a no-hitter in his first game as a college coach in April of 1973, should join the top 50 in all-time wins in Division III baseball history later this season.

The Saints were down 5-2 entering the bottom of the eighth inning and scored four runs to take a 6-5 lead. Olivet had the tying run on third with one out, but Robert Carman threw the runner out at home on a ground ball to first to help preserve the win.

Kyle Donaldson earned the win, pitching the seventh and eighth inning and allowing one run while Chris Considine earned the save with a scoreless ninth. Chris Cook started the game and allowed three earned runs in six innings.

Garrett Fitzgerald led the offensive with a double and a triple and scored twice while Carman had a double and single and drove in three runs and Ryan Duff had a pair of singles.

Fay is in his 37^th season at St. Lawrence and is the first Saint coach to reach 500 wins. He ranks 31st nationally among active Division III coaches in wins and will join the top 50 coaches in all-time Division III wins when he reaches 503.

The Saints will play Haverford in a doubleheader on Sunday in Fort Myers.