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Rochester, NY (4/7/13) - The Utica College baseball team dropped an Empire 8 double header to St. John Fisher College Sunday afternoon. UC fell 4-1 in the first game and 13-1 in game two.
St. John Fisher 4, Utica 1- Game One Final
The Pioneers jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the top of the first, but Fisher responded with four unanswered runs and Cardinal pitcher Justin D'Amato held UC to just two more hits over the next six innings to earn the victory.
Sophomore
Vincent Burillo (Montgomery, NY/Valley Central ) got things rolling early as he hit a solo shot to left, his first of the season, to give Utica a 1-0 lead. It was short lived however as junior Brad Rush doubled down the left field line to score classmate Mike Fahy and even the score at one after the first inning.
Fisher scored two more runs in the third inning and one in the fourth to take the 4-1 win and improve to 12-7 on the year.
Sophomore
Benjamin Hobaica (Clinton, NY/Clinton) and senior
Chris Podlucky (Grand Island, NY/Grand Island) joined Burrillo with one hit each in the first game. Junior
Alec Choleva (Coventry, CT/East Catholic) had two strikeouts in the loss.
St. John Fisher 13, Utica 1- Game Two Final
The Cardinals used a seven-run fifth inning to top Utica 13-1 in game two. Sophomore
Nick Perkins (Schenectady, NY/Schenectady) led the way going 4-for-4 with one run scored.
Fisher went ahead 3-0 in the bottom of the second, before Perkins scored UC's lone run in the third inning. Perkins hit a leadoff double to left field and was eventually brought home on a wild pitch.
The home team broke open the game combining for 10 runs in the fourth and fifth innings to complete the two-game sweep.
Chris Podlucky (Grand Island, NY/Grand Island) went 1-for-2, while
Rob Heath (Central Square, NY/Paul V. Moore) was 1-for-1.
The Pioneers (1-9, 0-2 Empire 8) return to action Tuesday as they travel to local rival, Hamilton College for the 26th annual Jackie Robinson game. The first pitch is scheduled for 4 p.m.
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