Eight runs in the latter innings of the second game of Sunday's doubleheader at Bard helped the St. Lawrence University baseball team come from behind for a 14-10 win and a Liberty League series split with the Raptors on Honey Field in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Bard edged the Saints 5-4 in game one.

Taylor Digilio led the Saints with a 3-for-6 performance at the plate in the win, with three RBI and three runs scored. He was one of five Saints with a multi-hit game on Sunday as James Cronin and Evan Reichel finished with a pair of hits in game one, and Brendon Frank and Beau Yaremko added two apiece in the nightcap.

First-year pitcher Tommy Voce earned his first collegiate win with 3.0 innings pitched in relief, allowing just one run on two hits and recording four strikeouts.

Sunday marked the first time this season the Saints have recorded a win and scored double-digit runs on back-to-back days this season.  

Game 1 – Bard 5, St. Lawrence 4
An RBI fielders' choice for Bard's Rory Maglich in the top of the seventh inning drove in the Raptors' fifth run, which proved to be the game winner.

Bard took a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning on an sacrifice fly and RBI single to center field, before the Saints pulled even with two runs of their own in the bottom of the third.

Cronin pulled the Saints even at 2-2 with a bases load, two-RBI single to right field to bring Frank and Digilio in to score.

However, Bard responded and regained a two-run lead with another pair of runs in the top of the fourth inning.

St. Lawrence pulled within a run in the bottom of the sixth with an RBI double by Digilio before Bard scored its fifth run in the top of the final frame to take a 5-3 lead.

Butler also added an RBI double for the Saints in the bottom of the seventh that plated Cronin, and the Saints were threatening, but stranded the potential tying and winning runs on base to end the game.

Starter Patrick Greenan had his longest outing of his rookie season for the Saints, throwing 6.1 innings and allowing five runs on eight hits with a pair of strikeouts. Beau Yaremko pitched the final two-thirds of the seventh inning and issued a walk with two groundouts.

Kyle Zigner picked up the win for the Raptors, while Caleb LaRosa earned a save with 1.1 innings pitched in relief.

The Saints finished with a slight 10-8 edge in hits but left 11 runners on base to Bard's nine.

Game 2 – St. Lawrence 14, Bard 10
It was the Saints who struck first in game two, taking a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning with the help of two unearned runs on a throwing error by Raptors' starting pitcher Steve Marotta.

But the lead only lasted until the top of the third inning, when Bard put up six runs on six hits for a 6-3 advantage in favor of the Raptors. With the bases loaded and no one out, Matt Lasky singled to center to drive in the first run and Bard followed with a sacrifice fly, two –RBI double, and RBI hit by pitch and infield single as the other scoring plays in the inning.

Rookie Ryan Carson came in in relief of starter Evan Reichel with the bases loaded and two outs, and threw just two pitches in getting a fly out to end the inning.

After Bard added two more runs in the fourth to take an 8-3 lead, the Saints answered with three in the bottom of the frame on a pair of RBI doubles by Joe Levin and Digilio as well as an infield single to shortstop by Frank that brought Digilio in to score to make it 8-6.

St. Lawrence officially erased the early deficit in the sixth inning, as three runs on two hits and with the help of two Bard errors tied the game at 9-9. Two different Raptors' pitchers made throwing errors on back-to-back plays that allowed the first two runs of the inning to score, and then Evan O'Keeffe drove in the tying run with a sacrifice fly to right field.

Levin put the Saints in front for the first time since the third inning with a sacrifice fly of his own, this time to center field, to score Yaremko and make it 10-9 in favor of the Scarlet and Brown in the seventh inning.

Voce retired the Raptors in order in the top of the eighth and then the Saints added four insurance runs in the bottom of the frame to secure the win.

Yaremko's RBI single to left drove in the eventual game-winning run to push the lead to 11-9 before Levin earned a bases loaded RBI walk and Digilio conclude the scoring with an two-RBI single up the middle a 14-9 lead.

Bard added a run in the top of the ninth, but Voce shut the Raptors down to secure the win.

St. Lawrence outhit Bard 12-9 and also took advantage of four errors by the Raptors in the win.

Records – St. Lawrence (5-22, 4-13 Liberty League), Bard (14-19, 7-12 LL)

Up Next – The Saints are set to finish the suspended game versus RIT from April 13, as well as host the Tigers for a Liberty League doubleheader on Tuesday, May 1 at 1 p.m. on Tom Fay Field.