First-year Caleb Clark and senior Jake Delaney each drove in four runs and Michael Hutchins earned the win as the St. Lawrence University baseball team staved off a weekend sweep with a 13-6 win over Clarkson University on Sunday afternoon at Tom Fay Field.

St. Lawrence improved to 14-13 with the win and 5-10 in Liberty League play. The Golden Knights fell to 7-14 on the season and 4-7 in conference play.

"Today was a good team win with a lot of contributors," said head coach Kenny Collins "We were able to put a bunch of good at-bats together every inning. We also had some younger pitchers get some valuable experience pitching in a conference weekend. The guys are playing extremely hard  every game and that's all we can ask for."

Clark's big day featured the first-year going 4-for-5 with two doubles, one home run, and three runs scored. Delaney went 3-for-5 in the game driving in four runs in the process. Senior Chris Watson was also a hitting machine going 4-for-5 from the dish and driving in a run.

Clark and Delaney each got their first RBI of the game in the bottom half of the first in game three. With runners at first and third with two outs, Clark ripped a single to right field to score Brett Federico. In the next at-bat, Delaney hammered a single up the middle of the defense to score Jimmy Liberatore and take a 2-0 lead.

Clarkson would cut the lead in half in the next half-inning after a walk and passed ball turned into a run.



In the bottom of the third, the Saints would get on the board once again as Delaney once again hit a ball into center field to score Liberatore.

After the Golden Knights scored another two runs to tie the game at three, the Scarlet and Brown exploded for five runs in the bottom of the fourth. The Saints dialed up three hits in a row to knock out the Clarkson hurler. The third of which came from Federico, who scored C Watson and Sean Desjardins with a deep single to left field.

Later in the barrage, Clark dialed up a two-RBI double to left field to give St. Lawrence a four-run lead. Delaney capped off the inning ripping a double of his own into the same divot Clark made in the previous at-bat to make it an 8-3 game.

The game would remain 8-3 until the bottom of the sixth when Clark came to the plate. The first-year was grooved a fastball that he launched over the Tom Fay Field scoreboard in left field to take a six-run lead.

In the top of the seventh, the Knights made a deep cut into the lead when Tommy Bianchi lofted a three-run home run over the right field wall to make the score 9-6.

However, that was as close as the Golden Knights would get as the Saints scored four more runs in the bottom of the eighth to put the game out of reach. Delaney recorded his fourth RBI, then was followed by Desjardins, who smacked an RBI double. C Watson capped it off by singling home Watson to make it 13-6.

The first-year hurler Hutchins earned his third win of the year pitching five inning, giving up five hits, two earned runs, and struck out three. Michael Watson, Samuel Fosberg, Brenden O'Neil each came out on the hill in relief before Liam Reiner slammed the door shut on a comeback in the top of the ninth.

The Scarlet and Brown have a busy week ahead of them as the Saints travel to Hamilton College on Tuesday, April 26 to play the Continentals in a rescheduled game from March 29. Then on Wednesday, St. Lawrence will take on SUNY Canton on the road before heading home for a three-game set against Skidmore.