Sophomore Sam Downes pitched a five-hit shutout and Mark Syron doubled in two runs as St. Lawrence University snapped a nine-game losing skid with a 4-0 win in game two of a doubleheader with SUNY Canton at Tom Fay Field Saturday afternoon.

SUNY Canton won game one 8-3 as Wilson Matos drove in three runs and scored two in support of a solid pitching performance by Robbie Osterer who went seven innings, striking out seven for the win. The Saints are now 9-9 after the split while the Roos are 6-14. The two teams play play a trio of seven inning games at Tom Fay Field on Sunday with the first pitch of the day scheduled for 11 a.m.

The Roos grabbed an early 1-0 lead in the top of the third of game one, which was a resumption of a suspended game which was called in the bottom of the second due to weather on Wednesday. Jesse Barton walked with one out, stole second, went to third on a single by Christian Nazario-Cruz and scored on a sacrifice fly by Matos. The Saints came back with two in the bottom of the inning as Andrew Schreyack delivered a two-run single to left center.

Canton went up 5-2 with four in the top of the fifth against Saint starter Ben Jenkins, all of which were unearned. Matos hit a two-run single and Seth Douglas delivered a run-scoring single in the inning. SLU got one back in the bottom of the fifth when Kyle MacDonald reached on an error and scored on Adam Reichel's two-out single, but Canton answered that in the top of the sixth on a double by Chris Roenbeck and a single from Greg Dobies and added two more in the top of the seventh on a double by Matos, an outfield error and a single by Brandon Welch.

John Mancini pitched two innings of scoreless relief in game one while Jenkins took the loss, allowing just two earned runs among the eight scored with relief help from Frank Grady.

Both Downes, who improved to 3-2 on the season, and Roo pitcher Zach Lawrence worked quickly in a seven-inning nightcap which took just 1:30 to play.

Downes walked one and struck out three for the Saints for the win and the Saints gave him the only run he was to need in the bottom of the third when Mic Regan singled to right with one out, went to third on an infield single by Chris Fernandez and scored on a squeeze bunt by Isaac Lewis.

The Saints added three more runs in the bottom of the fifth as Kyle Liszewski singled to short with one out, Regan singled with Liszewski moving to third and Fernandez delivered a sacrifice fly to drive in the run. Lewis then singled and Syron delivered a two-run double to center to complete the scoring.