Pitching Fuels Baseball's Doubleheader Sweep of Elmira

ELMIRA, N.Y. – The St. John Fisher College baseball team didn't show any signs of rust after a week off as the Cardinals allowed just two runs over 16 innings in a doubleheader sweep of the Elmira College Soaring Eagles on Sunday at Dunn Field.  With the sweep, Fisher, which has now posted four straight wins, moved to 8-6 on the season and 2-0 in the Empire 8 while Elmira remains winless at 0-11 overall and 0-2 in conference play.

FISHER 4, ELMIRA 0 (Seven Innings)

Sophomore pitcher Anthony Brophy earned his first win of the season after throwing a complete game shutout.  Brophy went 7.0 innings and yielded just five hits with six strikeouts overall.  The North Tonawanda native did not allow a walk.

After a scoreless first inning, Fisher got on the board in the top of the second as Scott Eisenmenger singled before Allen Murphy drew a walk and Ryan Brown dropped down a bunt single to load the bases with no outs.  The Soaring Eagles were able to limit the damage to one run with a double play before escaping the inning with a strikeout to keep it at 1-0.

Ryan Simmons staked the visitors to a two-run lead in the top of the fourth with his fourth home run of the year before the Cardinals tacked on another run in the sixth with an RBI single by Ryan Brown to make it 3-0.

In the top of the seventh, Stephen Edgett led off the frame with a single down the line and advanced into scoring position after a wild pitch.  Victor Konstantinovsky moved the runner up with a sacrifice bunt before Justin Graham got the job done with a bunt single of his own to plate Edgett and give Fisher a 4-0 edge.

The Cardinals produced eight hits in all led by Brown, Edgett and Graham who had two hits each.

FISHER 5, ELMIRA 2

Freshman Tim Geissel remained unbeaten on the season and picked up his third win after surrendering two runs on five hits over six innings.  Dillan Wilkinson threw two scoreless frames before Kyle Chambers netted his second save of the season with a scoreless ninth inning of work.

Fisher got on the board early after Jack Vivinetto singled up the middle to score Brown who had led off the second inning with a single to right.  The Cardinals added another run in the top of the fifth when Simmons smacked an RBI double to left that scored Thomas Pasquale to make it 2-0 in Fisher's favor.

In the seventh inning, Edgett worked a leadoff walk and came around to score when Graham clubbed a single up the middle to give the visitors a three-run cushion heading to the home half of the inning.

Elmira got a pair back in the bottom of the seventh on the strength of three hits, but Eisenmenger drove in a run in the eighth and ninth innings to give the Cardinals the 5-2 win.