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SAINTS FINISH YEAR 10-25 AFTER A BUSY CLOSING WEEK
St. Lawrence University's baseball team finished its season 10-25 after going 2-5 in a hectic final week of competition. The Saints lost to state power Cortland, 15-9 on Tuesday, falling behind 10-0 before the offense came to life in the late innings. Jake Moore went two for five with a solo homer, Paul Pierce doubled in three runs and Stephen Drake drove in a pair of runs with a double and a single while Jessie Roshia tripled to lead the Saint offense. Jim Delancey's walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth gave the Saints a 4-3 win over Skidmore in the first of a Wednesday doubleheader, but Skidmore came back to win the nightcap 2-1 as Andy O'Dell pitched a three hitter. Back-to-back doubles by Scott Miller and Paul Pierce produced a first inning run for the Saints and Kevin Eberz doubled and scored on an error with Miller scoring on a sacrifice fly by Jake Moore in the sixth to tie the game at 3-3. Andy Harms earned the win in relief of freshman Mike Ferguson and pitched well enough to win both ends of the doubleheader had the Saints been able to solve O'Dell in the nightcap. Harms allowed just five hits and struck out eight in the second game, but Dave Perfield's homer in the third was the only run the Saints could muster. Rochester swept the Saints 3-1 and 14-5 in a pair of games in Rochester on Friday. Pete Theroux reached on an error and scored on Eberz single for the only Saint run in the first game as SLU was held to three hits for the second straight game. Rochester scored three runs in the fifth, all unearned, off Randy Geise to take the victory. The Saints jumped out to a 3-0 first inning lead on Moore's three run homer, but Rochester put together a five run second and scored three more runs in both the fourth and sixth en route its 14-5 win in the nightcap. Miller and Pierce had two hits each for the Saints in that game. SLU scored four runs in the fourth inning on two run doubles by Perfield and Chris Ford and Harms made it stand up for his fifth win of the year at RIT on Saturday. Ford had a pair of hits in the game and Harms struck out six and gave up seven singles in the win. RIT built a 7-0 lead and had the Saints shut out for six innings in the nightcap before SLU came back with a five run seventh to make it close. Delancey's second homer of the week, a solo shot leading off the seventh, started the rally and Pierce doubled in two runs in the comeback attempt.
DELANCEY'S HOMER GIVES SAINTS WIN IN SPLIT WITH SKIDMORE,
Jim Delancey hit a leadoff home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to lift St. Lawrence University to a 4-3 win over Skidmore College in the first of an Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association doubleheader at St. Lawrence Wednesday afternoon, but Andy O'Dell pitched a three-hitter in the second game to give Skidmore a 2-1 win and the split. Andy Harms earned the first game win for the Saints, now 9-22 overall and 2-8 in the UCAA, as he came on in relief of freshman Mike Ferguson to get the final out in the top of the ninth. He was the second game loser despite surrendering just six hits and striking out eight. SLU jumped out to a 1-0 first inning lead in the first game as Scott Miller singled and scored on Paul Pierce's double, but Skidmore tied it in the second when Nick Litano doubled and Evan Adsit singled him home. Skidmore took a 3-1 lead in the top of the third on Ross Aresco's two-run homer. St. Lawrence tied it in the sixth on Kevin Eberz's double, an error and Jake Moore's sacrifice fly. Delancey then hit a 2-2 pitch out of the park to give the Saints the win in the bottom of the ninth after Harms got a strikeout with the bases loaded to end a Skidmore threat in the top of the inning. The only Saint run off O'Dell in the nightcap came on Dave Perfield's leadoff homer in the bottom of the third. O'Dell, who struck out four and walked only one, surrendered only two singles after Perfield's homer. Skidmore took a 1-0 lead in the first on Aresco's run-scoring single and won the game when Brian Neary doubled and Litano doubled him home in the top of the sixth. Skidmore is now 15-15 overall and 7-5 in the UCAA. In a Tuesday night game at Watertown against Cortland, the Saints fell behind 10-0 before the offense came to life and dropped a 15-9 decision. Dan Bailey took the loss for the Saints with Eberz, Perfield and Stephen Drake getting two hits each. Jake Moore also had two hits including a fourth inning homer and Jessie Roshia added a triple.
SAINTS AND HAMILTON SPLIT IN DOUBLEHEADER
Stephen Drake singled to lead off the bottom of the sixth and pinch-runner Bob DeLong scored on an error on a sacrifice bunt to give St. Lawrence a 4-3 win in the first game of an Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association doubleheader with Hamilton Sunday afternoon, but the Continentals used a seven-run second inning to take control in a 14-3 win in the nightcap. The Saints are now 8-20 overall and 1-7 in the UCAA while Hamilton is now 5-13, 3-7 in the UCAA. Andy Harms pitched the first game win for the Saints, and allowed only five hits and one earned run. Harms struck out six to earn his third win of the year. Paul Pierce hit a solo home run in the fifth inning as part of a three-for-three performance at the plate and Dave Perfield was two for to for the Saints.Steve Guilette took the loss for Hamilton. Hamilton's Nick Peterson gave up three first inning runs in the second game, two of them on Jim Delancey's double, but allowed just three singles the rest of the way to pitch the Continentals to their 14-3 win. Brian Grady had three hits including a double and Sam Bono was two for three for the Continentals in the second game. Delancey had two hits for the Saints.
UNION RALLY GIVES DUTCHMEN SWEEP OF
Jason Weiner's three-run single in the top of the seventh capped a seven-run Union College rally and gave the Dutchmen a sweep of an Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association baseball doubleheader at St. Lawrence with an 11-10 win. In the first game of the doubleheader, Union's Jake Gunishel and the Saints Randy Geise each pitched eight scoreless innings before the Dutchmen broke through for four runs in the top of the ninth and went on to a 4-0 win. Back to back singles by Matt Metivier and Brian Gould and an intentional walk to Chris Plant loaded the bases with one out for Union and Zac King delivered a two-strike two-run single to break the scoreless tie in the first game. A Saint error kept the inning alive and Eric Kopka produced a two run single to make it 4-0 St. Lawrence threatened in the bottom of the ninth as Paul Pierce singled and Jake Moore walked, but Union turned a triple play when Tim McMahon lined to shortstop Bryan Slekes with the runners in motion and both Saint runners were doubled off to end the game. Gunishel struck out four and walked two, scattering five singles for the complete game win. Geise surrendered eight hits, four of them in the ninth, struck out eight and walked two. Union trailed 10-3 entering the top of the seventh in the wild second game, but took advantage of three SLU errors and two walks to rally. Bob Krickovich picked up the win with a four-inning relief stint for the Dutchmen while Sean Virkler hit a three-run homer for the Dutchmen in the third inning. Union improved to 11-11 overall and 3-3 in the UCAA with the sweep while the Saints fell to 7-19, 0-6. Pete Theroux and Jessie Roshia each had two-run singles for the Saints in a game which included 19 errors between the two teams.
RENSSELAER SWEEPS SAINTS 7-0, 15-0
Rensselaer pitchers threw back-to-back shutouts and the Red Hawks used a big inning in each game to sweep St. Lawrence University 7-0 and 15-0 in an Upstate Collegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader Friday afternoon. Sophomore David Hubbs pitched a seven-hit shutout in the first game for the Red Hawks and Rensselaer blew it open with a six run sixth en route a 7-0 win. Senior Jason Bier threw a two-hitter, striking out five, and the Red Hawks scored ten times in the fourth in the second game to improve to 19-6 overall and 7-1 in the UCAA. St. Lawrence is now 7-17 overall and 0-4 in UCAA play. Saint starter Dan Bailey gave up an unearned run in the third in the first game on John Venditte's single and a pair of Saint errors and the Saints missed two chances to tie the score when the Red Hawks prevented Paul Pierce from scoring from third twice in the fourth inning. Rensselaer got to Bailey for five hits and the Saints committed an error in the sixth as the Red Hawks got a two run single from Travis Teeter and a two run triple from Kevin Connell in their big inning. Hubbs struck out six and walked one in earning the victory while Bailey allowed six hits through five innings before RPI broke through in the sixth. Teeter went four-for-four for the Red Hawks and Jason Noker had a pair of doubles in the first game. The Red Hawks blew open a 3-0 game with their big inning in the nightcap with a triple by Dennis Malone the big hit in the inning. RPI had seven hits in the fourth to go with three walks and a Saint error.
HARMS PITCHES TWO-HITTER, FERGUSON NO-HITTER IN SWEEP OF UTICA
The Saints, who are playing nine games in five days, will host Rensselaer Friday in a 2 p.m. doubleheader after posting 3-1 and 1-0 wins over Utica to improve to 7-15 on the season. Andy Harms pitched a two-hitter and struck out eight in the 3-1 first game win for the Saints. SLU took a 1-0 lead in the first on singles by Kevin Eberz and Paul Pierce, and after Utica tied it with a run in the third, the Saints scored two in the sixth on an error, Pierce's double and Jon Dupont's run-scoring single. Pierce went two-for-three and Chris Ford had a pair of doubles for the Saints in the first game. Eberz walked to start the Saint first in the second game and scored on Jake Moore's ground out for the only run Ferguson was to need. Ferguson struck out seven and walked four for the Saints. Pierce was two for three for the Saints in the second game. SLU will follow Friday's make-up doubleheader against RPI with Saturday and Sunday home twinbills against Union and Hamilton.
SAINTS FACE BUSY WEEKEND AFTER ANOTHER LOSS TO CLARKSON, 13-5 The Saints dropped their fourth straight to Clarkson on Wednesday, bowing 13-5 in a non-league single game in Potsdam. Randy Geise took the loss for the Saints, which came back twice to tie the game in the early innings, but fell victim to a five run fifth inning. Clarkson opened a 2-0 first inning lead against Geise, but the Saints came back in the top of the second to tie it when Jake Moore singled and Tim McMahon was hit by a pitch. Jim Delancey sacrificed them along with Moore scoring on a passed ball and McMahon on a wild pitch. Clarkson got those two back, both unearned, in the bottom of the second, but the Saints tied it again in the top of the third as Delancey's triple plated both runs. It stayed a 4-4 game until the fifth when Clarkson put together two doubles, two walks and two singles for its five runs to take a 9-4 lead. The Knights added four runs in the bottom of the eighth while SLU scored its final run in the seventh on Scott Miller's single and a passed ball. Moore and Delancey each had two hits for the Saints against Clarkson. SLU will follow its games against Utica with home doubleheaders against Rensselaer on Friday at 2 p.m., Union on Saturday at 2:00 and Hamilton on Sunday at noon.
CLARKSON MAKES IT THREE IN A ROW
Five Clarkson pitchers combined to limit the Saints to nine hits over nine innings and the Golden Knights won their third game against St. Lawrence in two days with a 9-4 victory in Potsdam on Wednesday. Clarkson, now 16-4 overall, trailed 2-0 early, but scored three times in the fourth and three more in the sixth on back-to-back homers by Brian Demshar and Willie Gould. Andy Harms took the loss for the Saints, who got a four for five performance at the plate from catcher Scott Miller, who drove in two of the four Saint runs. Chris Ford added a run scoring single for SLU, now 5-14 heading into UCAA doubleheaders against Skidmore and Rensselaer in Canton on Friday and Saturday.
Matt Nolan pitched a five-hitter to lead Clarkson to an 8-2 win in the first of an Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association baseball doubleheader at St. Lawrence on Tuesday and Clarkson rallied for nine runs in the top of the seventh, four of them on Willie Gould's grand slam homer to complete the sweep with an 11-6 win in the nightcap. Nolan improved to 6-0 on the season in the first game as the Golden Knights jumped out to a 3-0 first inning lead and cruised to an 8-2 win. Matt Draper and Tim Barcomb singled home runs in the top of the first and the third scored on an error as the Knights got started quickly. Brian Demshar led off the third with a single and scored on Matt Macaulay's two-out base hit to make it 4-0 in the third. The Saints cut it to a 4-2 game in the fourth when Scott Miller singled with one out Paul Pierce doubled. Miller scored on a ground out and Pierce came around on Tim McMahon's two out single, but Nolan got out of the inning without further damage and shut the Saints down from there. Clarkson tagged Saint starter Randy Geise for four more runs in the fifth to make it an 8-2 game. Singles by Demshar, Nate Markell, two Saint errors and a run-scoring double by Macaulay did the damage before Eric O'Neil came on to shut down Clarkson the rest of the way. Gould relieved Nolan with two on and one out in the sixth and struck out four of the six batters he faced to finish it off for Clarkson. The Knights improved to 15-3 overall and 2-0 in the conference with the second game comeback. SLU, now 5-13, 0-2, overcame an early Clarkson 1-0 lead with a three run third, stringing four singles together to plate the runs. Clarkson cut it to 3-2 in the top of the fourth on Demshaw's run scoring single, but the Saints added two in the bottom of the inning on a two-run double by Kevin Eberz. The Saints had a 6-2 lead after five as Chris Ford singled home a run. Gould hit his grand slam with one out in the top of the seventh to tie the game and the Knights went on to add five more runs in the inning to put the game away. Freshman Mike Ferguson took the loss for the Saints while Adam Fielder earned the win in relief for Clarkson. The two teams will meet again Wednesday in a 3:30 p.m. nine-inning non-conference game in Potsdam.
SAINTS WIN ONE OF FOUR IN WEEKEND BASEBALL SERIES
The Saints lost to Cazenovia in the first of two at Cazenovia on Saturday, but bounced back for a 18-10 win in the nightcap. Ithaca College, ranked tenth nationally, then swept the Saints 12-0 and 6-0 in Sunday competition. Randy Geise and Cazenovia's Ian Cuthbert locked up in a classic pitcher's duel in the first of two on Saturday. Neither pitcher surrendered a run until Dave Perfield hit a one-out solo home run in the top of the sixth to give the Saints a 1-0 lead. Cazenovia then hit two solo homers, back-to-back shots by Brian Mingoletti and Aaron Vaber in the bottom of the inning to give Cuthbert the win. Geise allowed eight hits and struck out four in the loss. Paul Pierce hit two home runs and drove in five runs and Kevin Eberz hit a grand slam and had five runs driven in in the 18-10 slugfest in the second game. Dan Barry earned the win on the mound and surrendered just one earned run among 10 scored by Cazenovia. The Saints jumped out to a 6-0 lead in the top of the first as Pierce hit a three run homer, Dave Perfield had a sacrifice fly and Steve Drake and Mike Porter hit back-to-back doubles. SLU added two runs in the second on Jake Moore's two run homer and a single run in the third on Drake's single and a sacrifice fly by Eberz. It went to 10-0 in the fourth when Pierce walked and scored on an error. Cazenovia came back with eight runs in the bottom of the fourth, just one of them earned, but the Saints came through with a six run sixth to open up a big cushion. Eberz hit his grand slam and Pierce added a solo shot in the big inning. The Saints made it 18-8 with a run on Bob Delong's single and an error in the top of the seventh before Cazenovia scored two more unearned runs in the bottom of the seventh. Ithaca's pitching kept the Saints off the board in a doubleheader in Ithaca on Sunday and the Bombers put up 12-0 and 6-0 wins over the Saints. Jake Upwood and two relievers shut out the Saints on three hits in the first game and Ithaca built a 7-0 lead through the first four innings. The Bombers tacked on four in the fifth and one in the sixth as Andy Harms took the loss for the Saints. Matt Lynch pitched a five hit shutout in the second game, striking out five and the Bombers broke open a scoreless game with three in the bottom of the fourth. Jim DeLancey had two of the Saints five hits in the nightcap.
The Saints, now 4-8 overall, had a doubleheader at Utica snowed out on Sunday and are scheduled to return to action Wednesday when they host Clarkson in their UCAA openers. Harms pitched five scoreless innings in the first of two at Hartwick, but the Hawks broke through for two runs in the sixth and it was all Platt needed. The Hartwick pitcher faced just one batter over the minimum through the first five innings, surrendered the only two hits he was to allow in the sixth and then got the Saints in order in the seventh. He walked one and struck out eight for the victory as Mike Eberz and Scott Miller were the only Saints to get hits off him with back-to-back singles in the sixth. Hartwick scored on three hits in the sixth including back-to-back doubles to spoil a solid effort by Harms. Geise improved to 2-1 and lowered his earned run average to 1.75 with a four-hitter in the second game. Pierce doubled and scored on Chris Ford's single in the top of the first for an early Saint lead, and after Hartwick tied it with an unearned run in the fourth, singles by Jake Moore and Tim McMahon and Jim Delancey's two-run double gave the Saints a 3-1 edge. Pierce tripled and scored on Moore's single in the sixth and Delancey scored on an error in the seventh to complete the Saint scoring .
SAINTS OPEN NORTHERN SEASON AGAINST OSWEGO APRIL 5;
Regulars Jake Moore, Scott Miller and Paul Pierce all hit over .340, but they'll be looking for additional help and the Saint pitching staff will be out to lower its earned run average when the Saints open the Northern portion of the 2000 schedule with a game against Oswego in Watertown on April 5. The Saints went 3-7 on their annual Spring Break trip to Fort Meyers, FL, and had some solid performances by both veterans and newcomers, but they will be working hard to lower a team earned run average of 6.75. Moore led the team in hitting on the southern swing with a .387 average and seven runs driven in while Miller hit .370 and scored seven runs while Pierce hit .343 and also drove in seven runs. Tim McMahon hit .429 and drove in six runs in six games while Ryan Hendry and Kevin Eberz also had good Saint debuts. Pitcher Randy Geise went 1-1 with a .360 earned run average in 10 innings to lead the staff while Andy Harms and freshman Mike Ferguson were also 1-1. The trip got off to a good start as Harms pitched a solid game and the Saints recorded a 2-1 win over Maryville. SLU trailed 1-0 heading into the bottom of the fifth, but rallied for a pair of runs to take the win. Mike Porter led off with a single, Dave Perfield was hit by a pitch and after Miller sacrificed them along, Pierce delivered a two run single. UMass.-Boston jumped out to a 5-0 lead through six in game two before the Saints got two in the top of the seventh in a 5-2 loss in the first of a doubleheader on day two. Rory Caster's single, a double by Eberz and a squeeze bunt by Miller provided the Saint runs. The Saints came back to earn a split in the doubleheader, jumping out to a 2-0 lead with runs by Eberz and Miller in the first and making it Suffolk took a 2-0 lead in the fifth and put the game away with a four run sixth in game four, a 6-2 loss. Pierce's solo homer in the sixth and a home run by Ryan Hendry leading off the seventh provided the Saint runs while McMahon had a pair of hits in the game. The Saints outslugged Daniel Webster 14-8 in game five as Geise earned the victory on the mound. Moore had a pair of hits and drove in three, McMahon had two hits and drove in two and Dupont had a pair of hits and two runs driven in. Pierce also had two hits and a run driven in. Rutgers-Newark put up seven runs in the fifth en route a 15-2 win in the next outing. Jim Delancey scored one Saint run after doubling and Perfield singled and scored the other. Amherst took a 15-8 decision in game seven, a nine-inning affair. Moore had a big day at the plate with four hits in five at bats and drove in two runs with a triple and a double while Eberz, Miller and McMahon had two hits each for the Saints. Muskingham broke open a 3-2 game with four runs in the fifth in the eighth game of the trip and went on to a 8-2 win. Delancey's two run homer was the offense for the Saints while Miller had a pair of hits in the ame. Muskingham also took the nightcap, winning 14-7 with Pierce going three for three and Miller two for two to account for five of eight Saint hits. Marian erupted for a seven run sixth inning in a 7-2 win over the Saints in the final game of the southern swing. Hendry drove in Delancey with a Saint run in the second for the early lead, but Marian's big rally put it away. Pierce doubled in McMahon in the seventh for the other Saint run as SLU was held to three hits.
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