Senior shortstop Mike Roman tallied his 200^th career hit today as the St. John Fisher College baseball team closed out the regular season with a 20-13 road win over Rochester Institute of Technology this afternoon at Tiger Stadium.
 
Roman went 4-for-6 with three RBIs, two runs scored and a double. He tallied his 200^th hit on his third hit of the game in the fifth inning. First baseman Scott Eisenmenger finished the game going 2-for-5 with a home run, a double, three RBIs, two runs scored and a walk
 
With the victory, the Cardinals tied the program record for the fourth time with 31 wins in a season under head coach Brandon Potter.
 
Fisher improves to 31-9 on the season as it heads into the Empire 8 Championship. RIT fell to 18-22 overall on the year.
 
The Cardinals took an early 3-0 lead before the Tigers made it a 3-2 game after the first inning. RIT tied the game at three in the bottom of the second before Fisher plated three more runs in the top of the third to make it 6-3.
 
RIT didn't go away quietly, as the Tigers scored a run in the third and fourth innings to make it 6-5.
 
In the top of the fifth, Fisher added to its one-run lead when eight runs crossed the plate on two singles, a double, two errors and four walks to make it 14-5.
 
In RIT's half the frame, the Tigers made it a three-run game when six runs scored on six hits.
 
Fisher in the top of the sixth put the game away as it scored five runs. Junior Frank Carnevale homered to left center on the first pitch he saw to open the inning. Centerfielder Joe Simmons followed up with a double to the opposite gap and moved to second when Victor Konstantinovsky was plunked with no outs. Evan Ryan drew a five pitch walk to load the bases for the Cardinals.  Simmons later came in to score on a wild pitch. Back-to-back walks would score Konstantinovsky before Roman capped off the scoring for the frame as his two-run single drove in Cody Wiktorski and Nate Roethel.
 
RIT picked up a run in the bottom of the sixth and eighth innings, while the Cardinals posted its 20^th run of the contest in the top of the eighth.
 
As a team, Fisher registered 15 hits with nine of them being extra base hits and 12 walks. This is the second game this season the Cardinals tallied 12 walks in a contest.
 
Starting pitcher Dominick Pisciotto picked up the win for Fisher to improve to 3-2. He threw three innings, struck out three and allowed seven hits.
 
RIT starter Brian Scheridan fell to 1-2 on the season after lasting two innings.
 
Top-seeded Fisher is home Thursday at 11 a.m. to open the Empire 8 Championship against the No. 4 seed Utica College.