St. John Fisher Baseball Earns Regional Win Over Brockport
The St. John Fisher College baseball team picked up another pivotal win in region play on Wednesday afternoon with a 3-2 victory over host The College at Brockport. With the win, the Cardinals move to 23-8 on the season and will return to conference play at 1 p.m. on Saturday at Utica College.
Justin D’Amato got the start in the outing but was not sharp for the Cardinals, allowing the bases to be loaded with no outs in the second inning and with one out in the third. D’Amato surrendered a run in the second before inducing a double play to get out of the jam.
With an out in the third, D’Amato was relieved by Tim Sylvester with the bases full. Sylvester struck out the next batter, walked in a run and then fanned another to end the inning. Brockport led 2-0 at this juncture of the game but it was the last time it would cross the plate the rest of the contest.
Sylvester worked six and two-thirds innings, allowing just three hits and no earned runs while strikeing out six. For the second time in four days, Sylvester earned a win, this after defeating Ithaca College on Sunday’s nightcap when he pitched a perfect 10
th inning before Fisher walked-off with a 6-5 win over the Bombers. The senior is now 3-1 on the year.
In the sixth inning the Cardinals got on the board when Ben Ward and Ben Bostick took off for a double steal, forcing the catcher to try and throw Ward out at third. The throw was an errant one, flying into left field and allowing Ward to score and Bostick to move to third.
Klock came to the plate next with Fisher trailing 2-1 and grounded out to first base, giving Bostick time to advance to home, knotting the game at 2-2.
Chris Roeder led off in the seventh inning, reaching base on an error and advancing to second on a sacrifice bunt from Steve Karnsyki. Peter Krysztof also bunted, and when the catcher thought about throwing Roeder out at third, Krysztof’s speed beat out the eventual throw to first for an infield single.
Krysztof then again used his speed, stealing second and coercing a throw from the catcher; enabling Roeder to take off for the plate and beating the throw back home for the eventual game-winning run.
Sylvester showed his calmness in the final inning, inducing a ground out to start the inning and after allowing a single, forced a ground-ball double play to Bostick who flipped to Roeder for the out at second before turning it to Karnyski at first to end the outing.
Bostick finished with a game-high three hits, hitting 3-for-4 with a run scored and two swiped bags. Krysztof was the only other batter in the game to have multiple hits, going 2-for-3 with two stolen bases.