The St. John Fisher College baseball team picked up two convincing wins on Saturday over visiting Houghton College, as the Cardinals registered 36 hits over the two game span. Fisher won game one 14-2 before taking game two, 16-6.
Fisher improves to 20-17 on the season, while Houghton falls to 17-21.
Game 1 – Fisher 14, Houghton 2The home team erupted for nine runs in the first inning to set the tone for the day early on.
Mike Roman singled to score
Calvin Woolhiser for the first run of the game.
Two of Fisher's five home runs in the contest came in the opening inning, a two-run shot from
Shane Barley and a solo homer from
Scott Eisenmenger.
Victor Konstantinovsky had a 2 RBI single in the inning while Barley picked up his third and fourth RBI of the game on a single later in the frame.
Malcolm Kelsey and
Nate Roethel each poked two-run home runs in the second and sixth inning, respectively.
Cody Wiktorski hit the final round tripper in the sixth inning.
Houghton added its only two runs of the game in the seventh inning.
Barley led the way on 2-of-3 hitting for four RBI. Kelsey, Konstantinovsky, and Roethel added two RBI apiece.
Stephen Lewis went the distance on the mound to move to 3-0 on the season after allowing two runs and striking out a career-high nine batters.
Game 2 – Fisher 16, Houghton 6Fisher started off hot, just like it did in game one. The Cardinals scored four runs in the first inning, including Eisenmenger going deep with a 3-run homer to left to give Fisher a 4-0 lead.
After one run in the top of the inning from Houghton, Fisher's offense kept things rolling. Woolhiser scored on an error from the shortstop and Wiktorski drove in two runs on a single to left later in the inning.
The Cardinals added five more runs in the fifth. Matt Cahill, Jack Vivenetto, and Roman each drove in an RBI in the inning while Barley drilled a 2 RBI double for the final runs in the frame.
Houghton was able to cut the Fisher lead to 12-6 after a five run fifth, but that is as close as they would come.
Another big inning was in store for Fisher in the eighth, scoring four more runs. Roman dropped in a blooper to score two.
Marc Iseneker picked up his fourth straight win on the hill to improve to 4-4 on the season. He went five innings, allowing three hits, one run (unearned), while striking out four.
Barley and Roman each went 4-for-6 in the game, driving in four and three RBI, respectively.
Fisher returns to action at 1 p.m. Monday when it will travel to RIT.
