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Winner RIT RIT 2-4
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Elmhurst ELMHURST 5-2
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RIT RIT
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Final
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Elmhurst ELMHURST
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Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
RIT RIT 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 5 9 1
Elmhurst ELMHURST 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 8 1

W: Cohall, Brandon (1-1) L: Rostine, Mike (1-1) S: Dillon, Tom (1)

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Winner Elmhurst ELMHURST 6-3
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RIT RIT 2-5
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Elmhurst ELMHURST
6-3
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Final
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RIT RIT
2-5
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Elmhurst ELMHURST 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 6 11 1
RIT RIT 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 4 9 1

W: Millan, Ryan (1-1) L: Reed, Brian (0-2) S: Rivera, Daryl (1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Nate Smith - Assistant Sports Information Director

RIT baseball splits morning doubleheader against Elmhurst College

AUBURNDALE, FL – Two games went down to the wire, as the RIT baseball team (2-5) split a pair of games against Elmhurst College (6-3) on a sunny Sunday morning. The Tigers took game one 5-3 in eight innings, but fell 6-4 in the finale, at the Lake Myrtle Sports Park.

In game one, RIT came up big in extra innings, with Will Gorman (Nassau, NY/Columbia) hitting a deep RBI double, scoring Zach Zabel (Clarence, NY/Clarence). Phil Sammon (Ridgefield, CT/Ridgefield) drove home Gorman a few pitches later to center field, nearly going over the wall for a double. In the bottom of the frame, Tom Dillion pitched a perfect inning, fanning two Elmhurst batters to pick up the save.

Taylor Hogan (Rochester, NY/Brighton) continued his solid hitting, going 3-for-4, scoring a run. Daniel Zeglen (Scotia, NY/Scotia-Glenville) made the most of his first collegiate hit, driving a pitch to left field over the wall for a home run in the third inning. Sammon drove in three runs on two hits, smacking a pitch over the scoreboard in left field in the sixth inning for the two-run bomb.

Brandon Cohall (Cortlandt Manor, NY/Walter Panas) pitched seven solid innings in the victory, giving up two earned runs on seven hits, striking out six batters.

Game two started as a defensive battle. Elmhurst jumped out to a 2-0 lead after an RBI single by Greg Struck and the Blue Jays scored on a throwing error by pitcher Brian Reed (Rochester, NY/Penfield).

From there, Reed shut down Elmhurst, allowing three hits the rest of the way, striking out eight batters in total. On the other end, Ryan Millan kept the Tiger bats quiet, holding RIT to only one hit in the first four innings.

In the fifth, the Tigers got on the board, as Zabel drove in Gage Blasi (Baldwinsville, NY/C.W. Baker) to cut the deficit in half. In the eighth, RIT and Elmhurst each tallied a run. Christian Ott hit a home run to right center field, and Sammon continued his solid day with an RBI single, scoring Gorman. Elmhurst got a big insurance run in the ninth, scoring three on an RBI double by Struck. In the bottom of the ninth, RIT threatened. Zeglen drove in Dom Scialabba (North Brunswick, NJ/North Brunswick) on a sacrifice fly, and Blasi hit an RBI single, to reduce the deficit to 6-4. Daryl Rivera forced Zabel and Hogan to pop out to left field, ending the threat.

Gorman and Brian Battaglia (Sliver Spring, MD/James Hubert Blake) each tallied two hits, with the Tigers getting nine hits as a team after a slow start. Elmhurst tallied its six runs on 11 hits.

The Tigers will play two tomorrow in a day/night doubleheader. They take on Southern Maine in game one at 11 a.m. and make up the postponed Saturday contest when they play St. Norbert at 6 p.m.