Baseball Sweeps Utica For Second Straight Day ; Extend Winning Streak to Seven

Joe Venniro - Assistant SID

Chris Miller earned the win in game one, allowing just one run in 5 2/3 innings

| 4/2/2006 2:38:52 PM

Click here for game #2 stats

ROCHESTER, NY - The RIT baseball team (9-6, 4-0 Empire 8) made it seven straight wins, all at home, after sweeping Empire 8 rival Utica on Sunday for the second straight afternoon at RIT Field. The Tigers won game one 6-2 and 5-1 in the second contest.

In game one, freshman Chris Miller (Rochester, NY/Rush-Henrietta) (Rochester, NY/Rush Henrietta) pitched 5 2/3 innings to earn his second win in the last five days and senior Colin Bradley (Barre, VT/Spaulding) (Barre, VT/Spaulding) went 3-for-4 with a home run, double anf three RBI in the 6-2 win.

Miller allowed just four hits and walked two to lower his earned run average to 1.78 in 2006. Nick Rappa (Fairport, NY/Fairport) (Fairport, NY/Fairport) pitched the final 1 1/3 innings to pick up his first save of the season.

The game was scoreless heading into the bottom of the fourth inning. Andy Scroger (Rochester, NY/Spencerport) (Spencerport, NY/Spencerport)led off the inning with a walk and scored when Jeremy Tosh (Woodbine, MD/Glenelg)'s (Woodbine, MD/Glenelg) sacrifice bunt was fielded and then thrown away into right field. Adam Gerentine (Poughkeepsie, NY/Marlboro) (Poughkeepsie, NY/Marlboro) then doubled in Tosh to put RIT up 2-0.

Bradley hit his first home run of the season, a towering blast down the left field line in the bottom of the fifth inning to put the Tigers up 4-0.

After Utica cut the Tiger lead to 4-2 in the top of the sixth on a lead-off walk and then back-to-back two out base hits, RIT put the game away with a pair of runs in their half of the sixth. Mark Sapienza (Avon, NY/Avon) (Avon, NY/Avon) drove in Matt SInger (Honeoye Falls, NY/Honeoye Falls-Lima) with a double and Bradley followed with a RBI single to finish the scoring.

In game two, Brian Lindenau (Tucson, AZ/Sabino) (Tucson, AZ/Sabino) was 2-for-3 with a run scored and RBI. Lindenau, Sapienza, Bradley, Scroger and Dan Christner (Honeoye Falls, NY/Honeoye Falls-Lima) (Honeoye Falls, NY/Honeoye Falls-Lima) all had RBI's for RIT in the win.

Nick Bell (Jamestown, NY/Jamestown) (Jamestown, NY/Jamestown) was very effective on the mound, allowing just one run and four hits over five innings to earn the save. Rappa picked up his second save of the day, giving up just one hit and striking out four over the final two innings.

RIT defeated Utica on Saturday by scores of 9-2 and 3-0.

The Tigers have now allowed just nine runs during the winning streak, out-scoring their foes 40-9.

Lindenau was 4-for-7 on the day to raise his average to .432.