ROCHESTER, NY — The RIT baseball team (10-6, 6-1 Liberty League) swept a pair of games against Vassar College (5-12, 0-5 Liberty League) Sunday afternoon at sun-soaked Tiger Stadium. The Tigers won 11-4 and 6-3, respectively after earning a 13-3 win Saturday to sweep the weekend series over the Brewers.

"I really like the way we are playing right now," said RIT head coach Rob Grow. "The offense keeps responding well and the defense is making plays, which gives our pitching staff a ton of confidence."

Senior Phil Sammon (Ridgefield, CT/Ridgefield) was 4-for-5 with a walk in the two games, raising his season average from .370 to .438.

In game one, RIT used a huge fourth inning, scoring six times to erase a 4-3 deficit. Will Gorman (Nassau, NY/Columbia) led the way offensively with three RBIs and and two runs scored, going 3-for-4 at the plate. Dom Scialabba (North Brunswick, NJ/North Brunswick) and Mike Myers (Hamlin, NY/Brockport) each added two RBIs, while Brett Kajganich (North Royalton, OH/Holy Name), Sammon, and Patrick Mylott (Aurora, OH/Western Reserve Academy) knocked in a run apiece. Along with Gorman, Scialabba and Sammon also racked up three hits, while Navada Waterman (Coudersport, PA/Coudersport), Daniel Capra (North Salem, NY/North Salem), and Myers each added one hit.

Daniel Zeglen (Scotia, NY/Scotia-Glenville) made the start for RIT, going four innings, with three strikeouts to earn the win. He allowed four runs on five hits. Jameson Moran (Geneseo, NY/Geneseo) came on in relief in the fifth inning, and finished the game, allowing just one hit and striking out three in two innings for his collegiate save.
 
For Vassar, Taylor Smach smashed a towering three-run home run. Daniel Bonfiglio also added an RBI. Vassar used three different pitchers. Adam Erkis started on the mound, going 3 1/3 innings and striking out three batters. He allowed seven earned runs on eight hits, with three walks in the loss.
 
The Tigers opened the scoring in the second inning, on an RBI ground out by Patrick Mylott (Aurora, OH/Western Reserve Academy), scoring Sammon from third. The Brewers came back to tie the game the next inning, on an RBI single by Bonfiglio. RIT then came back with two more runs in the bottom half of the inning. Gorman roped an RBI double down the right field line, and Sammon singled up the middle just two batters later, scoring Gorman .
 
The two teams combined for nine fourth inning runs. Smach hit a three-run home run in the top of the inning, flipping the score to a 4-3 Vassar lead. RIT would pile on six runs in the bottom half. Scialabba scored on a wild pitch, before Gorman drove in a pair of runs on a single to center. The score was then 6-4, and Vassar made a pitching change, but that did not stop the potent RIT offense. The next batter, Kajganich, hit a deep sacrifice fly, scoring Waterman, then Myers hit home Sammon and Gorman on a double to left center.
 
Scialabba added a two-RBI single down the left field line in the sixth inning, scoring Joey Mylott (Aurora, OH/Western Reserve Academy) and pinch runner Tommy Amuso (Webster, NY/McQuaid).
 
Game two started as a pitcher's duel, but one big inning by the Tigers fueled them to victory.
 
Kajganich led the way offensively, with a game-high three RBIs, to go with two hits. Myers added two RBIs and a hit, while Waterman also had one RBI on three hits. Four more Tigers had one hit each.
 
On the mound, Stevie Branche (New Paltz, NY/New Paltz) made the start, going 3 2/3 innings and striking out six batters, while allowing two runs on four hits. Brett Bouchard (Fairport, NY/Fairport) came in and was dominant, going 5 1/3 innings, allowing just one run on four hits, with six strikeouts. He needed just 52 pitches to earn his third victory of the season. His earned run average on the season now sits at 1.29.
 
For Vassar, Evan Trausch led the way, going 3-for-3 with a solo homer. Trent Berg made the start, picking up the loss as he allowed five runs on seven hits in 4 1/3 innings, with eight strikeouts. Derek DeMild threw six pitches, before Bryan Rubin came in and finished the game, giving up one run on three hits, with seven strikeouts.
 
Vassar scored first on an RBI single by Jake Doyle in the second inning, followed by a solo home run by Trausch in the fourth.
 
But RIT's bats really heated up in the top of the fifth, scoring five runs and takingto take a 5-2 lead. Waterman, Kajganich, and Myers recorded RBIs, scoring Patrick Mylott (Aurora, OH/Western Reserve Academy), Schulz, and Gorman. Kajganich hit another RBI single in the sixth, to make it 6-2 Tigers.
 
Vassar added one more run in the eighth, but Bouchard came up huge on the mound, retiring three batters in a row in the ninth, sealing the victory for the Tigers.

Vassar leads the all-time series between the two schools, 11-10. The Tigers currently sit second in the league standings with a 6-1 mark, just a half game behind Union.

The Tigers are back in action on Tuesday, April 11. RIT will host Brockport at Tiger Stadium for one game at 4 p.m, before home-and-home doubleheaders with Liberty League rival University of Rochester on Friday and Saturday.