The third game of the day between the St. Lawrence University baseball team and RIT Tigers ended exactly as the first began: tied. The teams played 23 innings of baseball Tuesday afternoon on Tom Fay Field, finishing a suspended game that started tied 5-5 in the top of the ninth inning and then playing doubleheader for a 1-1-1 split.

Alex Black hit a walk-off single in the bottom of the 14^th inning of the first game of the day, which was the completion of a game that began on April 13, to give the Saints a 9-8 win. RIT took the second game 5-3 and the third was called in the 10^th inning as a 2-2 tie at approximately 8:06 p.m. due to darkness.

The tie is the first for Head Coach Pete Hoy, and the first of the millennia for the Saints baseball program.

Anthony Ferraro was the pitcher of record in both decisions on Tuesday, earning the win in game one and the loss in game two. Black started the third game and pitched 9.0 innings, allowing just two runs on six hits with five strikeouts.

Game 1 – St. Lawrence 9, RIT 8 (14 total innings, six innings played on May 1)
Senior Beau Yaremko started the day retiring 12 straight Tigers for the Saints and pitched 4.2 innings, allowing three runs on two hits with the walks and four strikeouts.

Though it was RIT that struck first to break the tie, the Saints had the winning run on third base in the bottom of the ninth, but stranded runners on the corners.

Both sides were retired in order in the 10^th, 11^th and 12^th, before RIT earned three straight walks to start the 13^th innings. A single through the left side by the Tigers' Dom Scialabba drove in two runs, an Joey Mylott followed two batters later with an RBI double down the left field line to increase the RIT lead to 8-5 heading into the St. Lawrence half of the frame.

Anthony Butler and James Cronin hit back-to-back singles to start the bottom of the 13^th for the Saints, setting up an RBI double by Jeremy Gerringer with no outs to cut the deficit to 8-6.

Joe DeGuardia was the first out of the inning, but recorded a pinch-hit RBI groundout to send that brought Cronin in to score to pull within one.

In the next at-bat, with RIT in a defensive shift that overloaded the infield and left just two Tigers in the outfield, Tyler Guido hit a sacrifice fly to straightaway center to bring Gerringer home and tie the game at 8-8.

Anthony Ferraro retired the Tigers in order in his first appearance of the day in the top of the 14^th, and the Saints went to work in the bottom of the inning to win the game.

Brendon Frank was hit by a pitch and then stole second with Black at the plate to move into scoring position. Black's RBI single down the left field line gave the Saints their first walk-off win of the season, 9-8.



Game 2 – RIT 5, St. Lawrence 3
The Saints opened up a 2-0 lead on RBI singles by both Taylor Digilio and Isaac Lewis in the top of the second inning, but RIT took the lead for good in the bottom of the frame on a three-run homerun to left by Scialabba. The Tigers increased their lead to 4-2 with an RBI fielder's choice by Benjamin Terzini later in the inning.

In the third, Evan Reichel drove in Cronin with an RBI groundout to second base to pull the Saints within one at 4-3, but that would be as close as they got in the loss.

RIT added the fifth and final run of the day in the bottom of the third inning on an RBI single to left center by Navada Waterman.

Ferraro, who finished the first game and started the second, took the loss after pitching 1.1 innings and allowing four runs on two hits with three walks. Tommy Voce allowed a run on two hits in 1.2 innings of relief and Charlie Pacilio kept the Tigers off the board in the final three innings of the game, giving up just two hits.

RIT's Brian Reed pitched all seven innings in the win, allowing three runs on six hits with a pair of walks and three strikeouts.

Both teams finished with six hits.

Game 3 – St. Lawrence 2, RIT 2 (10 innings)
James Cronin, Evan Reichel and Joe Levin each finished with a pair of hits in the tie, with Cronin factoring in to both St. Lawrence runs, scoring one and driving in the other.

After RIT took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning, the Saints pulled even in the top of the fourth, as Reichel hit an RBI single to left center that brought Cronin in as the tying run to make it 1-1.

But the Tigers answered in the bottom of the frame on a sac fly by Dalton Murray to regain the lead 2-1.

In the top of the sixth, it was Cronin who singled through the left side to drive in Frank and make it a 2-2 game.

In the innings that followed until the time the game was called, the Saints had a number of opportunities to win the game, combining to leave six of their overall 11 runners left of base stranded in the final four innings

RIT worked out of a bases loaded jam in the top of the seventh to keep the game tied.

After giving up the second RIT run in the bottom of the fourth, Black did not allow another Tigers' hit until the bottom of the ninth inning and issued just one walk in the innings in between.

Louis LaCivita finished the game for St. Lawrence and gave up one hit in the 10^th inning.

RIT used five pitchers in the tie, with starter Stevie Branche going 5.1 innings and allowing two runs on eight hits with three strikeouts. Nick Claver pitched the final three innings of hitless baseball in relief, recording two strikeouts.

The Saints outhit the Tigers 10-7 in the final game of the day.

Records -- St. Lawrence (6-23-1, 5-14-1 Liberty League), RIT (15-13-1, 9-8-1 LL)

Up Next – The Saints travel to Clarkson on Saturday, May 5 for a Liberty League doubleheader starting at 12 p.m.