Canton, NY – The SUNY Canton baseball team opened its weekend Empire 8 series with St. John Fisher College dropping a pair of contests, 3-2 (7 innings) and 10-0 (9 innings), on Saturday.

With the wins the Cardinals improve to 19-6 overall and remain perfect at 7-0 in Empire 8 play. The Roos fall to 9-17 and 3-8.

Game 1 – Box Score

The Cardinals started the scoring with one run each in the first and third innings as Scott Eisenmenger drove in both runs. SUNY Canton got one run back in the fifth when Brandon Welch (Constable, NY) drove home Jeremy Baez (Bronx, NY) on a fielder's choice sacrifice fly.

Fisher added an important insurance run in the top of the seventh when Jack Trotman doubled down the right field line to plate Joe Simmons. Baez homered to left with one out in the bottom of the inning to get the Roos the tying run to the plate. Loukas Brigham came on to induce a pop out and line out to secure the save and give the Cardinals the win.

Travis Bigelow (Ottawa, ON) gave up just two earned runs and six hits over seven innings, while striking out four batters in the loss.

Game 2 – Box Score

The bats struggled for SUNY Canton in the nightcap as they were able to get just one hit off starter Marc Iseneker through six innings as he struck out seven batters. The Cardinals scored two runs in the second before breaking the game open with a five run third. St. John Fisher tacked on two runs in the fifth and one each in the fourth and ninth innings to earn the sweep.

Khalil Bratton (Queens, NY) took the loss on the hill giving up seven hits and eight runs over three innings.