The nationally-ranked St. John Fisher College baseball team improved to 15-1 on the year and extended the longest winning streak in school history to 14 games on Sunday with two shutout-wins over Empire 8 Conference rival Utica College.  Four Fisher pitchers combined to throw 16 scoreless innings, while allowing just six hits and recording 22 strikeouts. Fisher, currently ranked No. 16 in the national coaches poll and No. 22 in the D3baseball.com poll,  will travel to Utica on Monday to close out the four-game series with the Pioneers with the first pitch of the doubleheader slated for 3 p.m.

Game 1: Fisher 6, Utica 0

The Cardinals would open the scoring in the top of the third after Cody Wiktorski was hit by a pitch to start the inning. After advancing to second on a wild pitch, Joe Simmons delivered a sacrifice bunt to get Wiktorski 90 feet closer. Senior Chris Roeder later reached on a throwing error to score Wiktorski.
Utica would piece together a threat in the bottom of the fifth after a leadoff double got the Pioneers' first runner in scoring position, but senior Justin D'Amato would end the threat with his eighth, ninth and 10^th strikeout of the game later in the inning  

 The Cardinals would counter in the sixth with five runs of their own. Roeder led off with a single, and would advance around the bases on two wild pitches to give the Cardinals a 2-0 lead. Five of the next seven batters would reach base, highlighted by an RBI-triple from Simmons.

D'Amato earned the win and improve to 5-0 on the season and 32-4 for his career. The senior All-American threw six innings, allowing just four hits and no runs while striking out a season-high 10 batters. Josh Amann tossed a scoreless seventh inning, yielding no hits. 

Game 2: Fisher 3, Utica 0

The Cardinals took a 1-0 lead in the top of the fifth with Mike Fahy scoring the game-winning run on an RBI-single from Roeder.
After Mike Roman led off the top of the sixth with a line drive single that ricocheted off the Utica pitcher, Wiktorski later drove him in on a sacrifice fly. Wiktorski would also deliver his team-leading third home run of the season in his next at-bat to give the Cardinals a 3-0 lead.

Freshman pitcher Marc Iseneker improved to 3-0 on the season, throwing eighth strong innings.  He allowed allowed just two hits, and struck out a career-high 10 batters, while lowering his ERA to 0.43 for the season.  Ryan Smith picked up his third save of the season, throwing a perfect ninth with two strikeouts.

Four hitters recorded multi-hit performances in the game. Nick Flemister finished 3-for-5, while Brad Rush and Malcolm Kelsey combined to go 4-for-9. Roeder went 2-for-5 with an RBI, and Wiktorski would finish 1-for-4 with two RBI and a run scored.