ROCHESTER, NY – The No. 4 seed RIT baseball team (19-16-1) fell to top-seed University of Rochester (17-15), 12-3 in game two of the double-elimination Liberty League Championship Tournament at Towers Field on Thursday evening. RIT will take on No. 3 seed Vassar College in an elimination game Friday at 11 a.m., while Rochester will host No. 2 Union College in a winner's bracket contest Friday at 2 p.m.
 
Down 4-1 heading into the top of the eighth inning, RIT started a rally that would get them to 4-3. Daniel Zeglen (Scotia, NY/Scotia-Glenville) was hit by a pitch to lead off the inning and came around to score on a single by Daniel Capra (North Salem, NY/North Salem) that was mishandled by the right fielder all the way to the wall. Capra would end up on third and score on a hard single by Dalton Murray (Savannah, NY/Clyde-Savannah) to make it 4-3 with nobody out.
 
After a flyout and a fielder's choice, Joey Mylott (Aurora, OH/Western Reserve Academy) crushed a ball over the center fielder's head that was set to score Murray from first, but the ball caromed over the fence on the bounce for a ground rule double, automatically putting the runners at second and third. The Tigers would strand the two runners in scoring position.
 
In the bottom half of the inning, Rochester would send 12 men to the plate and score eight runs on six hits to put the game away. Seven of the runs were unearned and came with two outs. The Yellowjackets would hit three consecutive triples later in the inning to make it a 12-3 score.
 
Rochester out-hit RIT, 12-11, but the Tigers left 13 runners on base, including six in scoring position.
 
Dalton Murray (Savannah, NY/Clyde-Savannah) led the Tigers offensively, going 3-for-5 with a RBI. Zeglen and Patrick Mylott (Aurora, OH/Western Reserve Academy) had two hits apiece, while Capra scored twice. Jameson Moran (Geneseo, NY/Geneseo) settled in after early struggles to allow six hits and five runs (three earned) over seven innings in the loss.
 
Steve Pickering was 3-for-4 with two runs scored and two RBIs. He finished a double shy of the cycle. Tyler Schmidt, David Rieth and Kyle Trombley had two hits apiece, while Aiden Finch and Aaron Craig drove in two runs apiece. Will Conroy picked up his fourth win of the season, allowing eight hits and three runs (one earned) in 7 2/3 innings. Garrett Renslow got out of the big jam in eighth inning and pitched a scoreless ninth inning for his first save.
 
RIT took the early 1-0 lead in the second inning on a RBI single by Dom Scialabba (North Brunswick, NJ/North Brunswick). Rochester would come right back in the bottom half of the inning, scoring twice to take a 2-1 lead.  The Yellowjackets added two more runs in the fourth inning to take a 4-1 lead.
 
Rochester now leads the season series between the two schools, 3-2. It was the fifth meeting in the last six days as RIT and Rochester split a pair of doubleheaders to end the regular season last weekend.
 
It was RIT's second game of the day, as they won the wild card game to enter the tournament over No. 5 seed Rensselaer, 3-2 on a walk-off bases-loaded walk by Jason Schulz (Liverpool, NY/Liverpool) in the bottom of the ninth inning.
 
RIT did not play Vassar, tomorrow's opponent during the regular season. The Brewers lost to No. 2 seed Union, 12-1 in opening round action.