Bryan Palermo had four hits in a Saturday Liberty League doubleheader, three of them in the second game as St. Lawrence University and the Rochester Institute of Technology split a twinbill for the second straight day.

RIT rallied for five runs in the bottom of the inning in game one to take a 7-5 win, but the Saints came back from three down after the first inning to gain the split with a 8-4 win in game two. The Saints are now 13-10 overall and 9-6 in the Liberty League while RIT is 10-5 and 15-9. SLU will play a makeup doubleheader at Vassar on Tuesday.

Palermo went three for five and drove in three runs in game two for the Saints and Mic Regan was three for four. Dan Hedden earned his first collegiate win, going seven innings and allowing no earned runs. Jake Farrell pitched two innings in relief to lock down the win.

RIT's Rory Little checked the Saints on four hits in the opener, but trailed 4-2 going into the bottom of the sixth. The Tigers exploded for five runs, three of them on Phil Sammon's homer to gain the 7-5 win.

RIT took a 1-0 lead on a single by Ronnie Canestro and an error in the bottom of the first, but the Saints came back with two in the top of the second. Devin Robson doubled and scored when Zane Fish reached on an error. Fish later scored on Brian Magovney's sacrifice fly. It went to 3-1 in the top of the third on Palermo's single, a hit batter and an error on Khifer O'Connor's grounder.

The Tigers cut it to 3-2 on Canestro's run-scoring grounder in the bottom of the fourth, but the Saints got that right back in the top of the fifth as Mark Syron reached after being hit by a pitch with two out and scored on an error.

RIT chased starter Chris Kellogg with consecutive singles and a walk with one out in the bottom of the sixth and Chris Barr greeted reliever Mike Dell'Olio with a run-scoring single. Skip Flanagan delivered a sacrifice fly to tie the game and Sammon then homered for the 7-4 lead. The Saints got one back in the top of the seventh as Syron reached on one error and scored on another.

Hedden surrendered three unearned runs on a two run double by Flanagan and a fielder's choice in the bottom of the first, but the Saints bounced right back to tie it in the top of the second with a run scoring single by Regan and a double by Palermo. The Saints took the lead in the top of the third as O'Connor led off with a double and scored on a sacrifice fly by Kevin Prindle.

SLU tacked on a run in the top of the sixth as Magovney singled, advanced on Regan's single, went to third on a wild pitch and scored on Palermo's fielder's choice. They added three in the top of the eighth on two-out singles by Chris Fernandez and Regan, an error, Palermo's single and a run-scoring single by Syron.

RIT got one run back off reliever Jake Farrell in the bottom of the ninth on Brett Kajanich's run-scoring single, but could get no closer.