CANTON, NY – Twenty-three innings played and a rare day with three different results. The RIT baseball team (15-13-1, 9-8-1 Liberty League) and St. Lawrence University (6-23-1, 5-14-1 Liberty League) picked up a suspended game and played a doubleheader on Tuesday afternoon from Tom Fay Field. St. Lawrence rallied to win the opening contest, 9-8 in 14 innings, while RIT took game one of the scheduled doubleheader, 5-3. The two teams needed extra innings to finish the day and ended in a 2-2 tie after 10 innings.
 
The two teams started the day by resuming a game that was called due to darkness and inclement weather 18 days ago on April 13. The day ended, 23 innings later with another game called due to darkness. This time, the result officially goes into the record books as a tie.
 
It is just the 12th tie in RIT baseball history, spanning 1,853 games and it's the game to end in a tie since 2001.
 
The day started at 1 p.m. , resuming the suspended game with the score knotted at 5-5 to start the top of the ninth inning. Suddenly, both teams could not find offense, as St. Lawrence's Beau Yaremko and RIT senior Brett Bouchard (Fairport, NY/Fairport) matched zeroes for four consecutive innings. In the top of the 13th, RIT broke through with three runs. Consecutive one-out walks by Jason Schulz (Liverpool, NY/Liverpool), Daniel Capra (North Salem, NY/North Salem) and Dalton Murray (Savannah, NY/Clyde-Savannah) loaded the bases for Dom Scialabba (North Brunswick, NJ/North Brunswick). Scialabba responded by driving in two runs with a single to left field, making it 7-5 Tigers. With two outs, Joey Mylott (Aurora, OH/Western Reserve Academy) doubled in Murray for an 8-5 RIT lead.
 
St. Lawrence would come right back however, with three runs in the bottom of the 13th to tie the game and then win it in the 14th on a walk-off single by Alex Black.
 
The Saints out-hit RIT, 15-8 in the game. Anthony Butler was 4-for-4 with two RBIs for St. Lawrence. Anthony Ferraro pitched the scoreless 14th inning in relief to pick up the win.
 
Scialabba had two hits and three RBIs for RIT. Stevie Branche (New Paltz, NY/New Paltz) started the game on the mound 18 days ago and allowed three runs in four innings. Bouchard took over in the fifth inning that day and resumed action today. He would throw a career-high nine innings, allowing nine hits and five runs, facing 36 batters.
 
RIT would get back in the win column to start the official doubleheader, winning game one, 5-3 behind a complete-game six hitter by Brian Reed (Rochester, NY/Penfield). After a slow start, Reed settled down to face one batter over the minimum, over the final four innings. Overall, Reed allowed six hits and three runs with three strikeouts, earning his fifth win of the season and 15th victory of the season.
 
Trailing 2-0 in the bottom of the second inning, RIT scored four times to take a lead they would not relinquish. Scialabba had the big hit for the Tigers, a three-run home run to left field, his third of the season. Navada Waterman (Coudersport, PA/Coudersport) reached base twice, scored a run and added an RBI. Daniel Capra (North Salem, NY/North Salem) had a pair of hits.
 
In game two of the doubleheader, game three of the day, RIT got off to a quick start, as Benjamin Terzini (Liverpool, NY/Liverpool) singled in Patrick Mylott (Aurora, OH/Western Reserve Academy) in the bottom of the first inning to open the scoring. St. Lawrence would tie the game in the top of the fourth, but RIT would regain the lead in the bottom half of the frame, as Murray hit a sacrifice fly to center field, scoring Schulz, who reached on a walk to make it 2-1 Tigers.
 
St. Lawrence would tie the game in the top of the sixth inning on three straight hits off of Branche, who had cruised through the first five innings. Bouchard, who threw five innings of relief earlier in the day came in and got the Tigers out of further trouble with two big outs.
 
From there, the pitching emerged dominant once again, as neither team could score. After the 10th inning ended at 8:06 p.m., the game was called on darkness, ending in a tie.
 
Branche, who technically started two games in one day, allowed eight hits and two runs, with three strikeouts over 5 1/3 innings. Bouchard, Michael Campbell (Honeoye Falls, NY/McQuaid Jesuit), Jameson Moran (Geneseo, NY/Geneseo) and Nick Claver (Liverpool, NY/Liverpool) combined to shut the Saints out the rest of the way, spanning 4 2/3 innings. Claver was very impressive, striking out a pair of batters in three hitless innings.
 
Daniel Zeglen (Scotia, NY/Scotia-Glenville) was the lone Tiger to have two hits in game two, going 2-for-4 with a double.
 
Black, who was the walk-off hero in the opener, allowed just six hits and two runs, while striking out five batters over nine innings. Louis LaCivita pitched a scoreless 10th inning in relief.
 
RIT won the season series between the two schools, 2-1-1. RIT rolled to a 10-1 win on April 13, as Zeglen homered twice and drove in five runs.
 
RIT returns to action on Thursday with a home contest against St. John Fisher College that gets underway at 4:30 p.m.