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Anthony Butler
Vincent Pacilio
Anthony Butler '19
8
SUNY Canton CANTON 3-19
9
Winner St. Lawrence SLU 4-14
SUNY Canton CANTON
3-19
8
Final
9
St. Lawrence SLU
4-14
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E
SUNY Canton CANTON 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 4 0 8 7 3
St. Lawrence SLU 2 0 0 0 2 0 3 1 0 1 9 8 5

W: Zehr, Kalani (1-0) L: B. Bautista (1-5)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Saints Walk Off with Win Over Canton in 10 Innings

Anthony Butler worked a walk-off walk in the bottom of the 10th inning to bring Taylor Digilio in to score and give the St. Lawrence baseball team a 9-8 win over SUNY Canton in the Saints' home opener on Tom Fay Field Thursday afternoon.

St. Lawrence led 8-4 heading into the top of the ninth, but SUNY Canton managed scored four runs on just two hits and was aided by two errors by the Saints to tie the game at 8-8 and force the extra frame.

Sophomore pitcher Kalani Zehr earned his first collegiate win with 1.1 innings of hitless baseball in relief, and finished with a pair of strikeouts – both of which came with two runners in scoring position to get out of the top of the 10th inning.

The Saints took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first without recording a hit, as SUNY Canton made two errors.

Canton scored a run in the fourth and three in the fifth to take a 4-2 lead, but the Saints tied it up with a pair of runs in the bottom of the fifth.

Nicholas Butler, who led the Saints with a 2-for-5 day at the plate, sparked the Saints' comeback with a home run down the left field line to lead off the fifth inning. Evan O'Keeffe then tied the game on a sacrifice fly to center field by classmate Joe DeGuardia.

In the 7th, William Montgomery hit an RBI single up the middle and Cristian Forgione blooped a two-RBI double to deep center to help the Saints take a 7-4 lead.

St. Lawrence pushed the lead to 8-4 with a run in the bottom of the eighth inning, as Brian Comerford reached on a two-base error before a double to left center by Taylor Digilio brought him around to score.

With one out in the top of the ninth, the Saints committed an error on a probable double-play ball that helped Canton score its first run of the inning to cut the deficit to 8-5 for the Roos. An RBI groundout and a two-out, two-RBI single to the left field evened the score at 8-8, setting up Anthony Butler's walk-off walk in the 10th.



Records – St. Lawrence (4-14); SUNY Canton (3-19)

Up Next – vs. Rochester, Saturday, April 13 at 1 p.m. on Tom Fay Field
 
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