| 5/13/2006 5:04:09 PM
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OSWEGO, NY - The RIT baseball team finished the 2006 regular season with a 22-16 record after splitting a pair of games at SUNY Oswego on Saturday. The Lakers won game one 6-4, while the Tigers rallied from a 4-2 seventh inning deficit to pull out a 6-4 win in eight innings. In addition, three RIT single-season records fell.
Senior centerfielder Matt Singer (Honeoye Falls, NY/Honeoye Falls-Lima) (Honeoye Falls, NY/Honeoye Falls-Lima) became the RIT single-season leader for walks, as he picked up his 28th and 29th of the season.
Both Colin Bradley (Barre, VT/Spaulding) (Barre, VT/Spaulding) and Jeremy Tosh (Woodbine, MD/Glenelg) (Woddbine, MD/Glenelg) broke the RIT record for hits in a season, which was 50. Bradley had four hits on Saturday, while Tish had three. Bradley now has 52 hits and Tosh 51.
Dylan Rees (Wampsville, NY/Oneida) (Wampsville, NY/Oneida) broke a team record by throwing his eighth complete game of the year. He also tied a record by picking up his eighth win.
In game two, RIT scored two runs with two outs in the top of the seventh inning to tie the game at 4 and tallied two more runs in the eighth to win it. Tosh hit a two-run double in the eighth inning to vault RIT to the win.
With two outs in the seventh, Tosh, Bradley, Brian Lindenau (Tucson, AZ/Sabino) (Tucson, AZ/Sabino) and Andy Scroger (Rochester, NY/Spencerport) (Spencerport, NY/Spencerport) hit consecutive singles to tie the game.
Bradley drove in RIT's first run with a single in the first inning and then hit his second home run of the year, a solo shot in the fifth inning.
Tosh hit a two-run double in the eighth to give RIT the win.
Rees allowed just six hits and two earned runs, while striking out seven.
In game one, Scroger was 3-for-3 with a RBI. Tosh, Bradley and Lindenau drove in a run each for RIT.
RIT now awaits a possible post-season bid..