ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Nine different players recorded a hit as the nationally-ranked St. John Fisher College baseball team totaled a season-high 15 base hits to power past the University of Rochester, 10-0, on Wednesday night at Towers Field. With the win, Fisher, which is ranked 24th in the latest D3baseball.com national poll, moved to 8-5 overall while the Yellowjackets fell to 2-4.
Freshman
Thomas Pasquale went 4-for-4 at the plate with an RBI and one run scored while teammate
Ryan Fahy came away with two hits in three at-bats with two runs batted in.
Victor Konstantinovsky and
Scott Eisenmenger combined for four hits, four runs and two RBI.
On the mound,
Dominick Pisciotto picked up his first win of the season (1-0) after throwing four shutout innings before being lifted
Dillan Wilkinson in the fifth.
Matt Toohey pitched the sixth and scattered two hits in an inning of work while
Trevor Rumsey,
Jonathan Schlesing and
Ethan Hite combined to throw three no-hit innings.
After two scoreless innings to start the game, Fisher plated four runs on five hits and a Rochester error in the top of the third inning. The Cardinals connected with four singles to start the frame including RBI knocks from
Evan Ryan and
Justin Graham. After recording an out, Rochester was poised to escape the jam, but Eisenmenger singled down the leftfield line to plate Graham and give Fisher a four-run lead heading into the home half of the inning.
Pisciotto set the side down in order in the bottom of the third before his offense pushed the advantage to six runs in the top of the fourth.
Jack Trotman led off with a walk and came around to score when Konstantinovsky singled to center. The next batter, Pasquale, singled to right to keep the rally going before Ryan lined a sacrifice fly to right to plate Konstantinovsky and give Fisher a 6-0 lead.
The Cardinals added two more runs in the fifth inning with the big blow coming off the bat of Fahy as the junior smacked a two-run double to make it 8-0 in Fisher's favor.
The visitors tacked one two more runs late with an run-scoring single by Pasquale in the eighth followed by an unearned run in the ninth en route to the 10-0 non-conference win.
Fisher will return to action at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday when it plays its home-opener at Dugan Yard against Rochester Institute of Technology.