St. John Fisher series

Last year, UR played St. John Fisher 5 times during the last week of the regular season. Fisher won 4 out of 5 and ended up with a bid to the NCAA regionals. Many think that if UR would have at least split with Fisher 3-2, based on beating Emory in Florida, UR would have gotten a bid last year.

These cross-town rivals have more than just bragging rights at stake again this year!

On senior day @ UR, Fisher jumped out to a 4-0 lead after 3 1/2 innings. UR scored single runs in the 4th, 5th, and 6th innings, but Fisher added runs in the top of the 5th and 9th to seal the 6-3 victory and give Pete McEneaney his first loss of the season. Steve Guzski did a nice job in relief of Pete, and Chris Olsen finished up. the offense could not string together enough hits to overcome the early Fisher lead.

Two days later the same 2 teams met @ Fisher on their senior day. UR jumped out to a 5-0 lead, batting around with 4 hits and 5 runs, the big blow a 2 RBI double by Matt Francis, after one inning.

Dave Kloc doubled in the top of the 4th and scored on Blayne Fuke's RBI single to make it 6-0. Fisher came storming back with 7 runs on 4 hits and were assisted by 2 UR errors, to take the lead 7-6 after 4 innings. Ur scored a run in the top of the 5th to tie it at 7. Fisher scored 2 in the bottom of the 6th to take the lead for good and close out the scoring with a 9-7 victory.

I hope that these 2 losses do not come back to haunt us as far as the NCAA is concerned.

The best way to insure that would be to win the conference tournament, and get the automatic bid, instead of hoping for an at large bid. All 4 teams in the Liberty League tournament will be thinking the same thought. It should be a dogfight to the end.