Alfred, NY – Jeremy Baez (Bronx, NY) produced five hits and 3 RBIs but the SUNY Canton baseball team dropped a pair of games, 3-2 and 9-7 to host Alfred State College on Sunday.
 
Game 1
Baez got the Roos on the board in the top of the first on an RBI single that scored Wilson Matos (Brooklyn, NY), who drew a one out walk and stole second earlier in the inning. Alfred State evened the game at one in the third inning.
 
Neither team would plate a run for the next five innings as the teams combined to leave 21 runners on base in the contest. In the second extra inning of the contest Baez came through with a n RBI single to score Seth Douglas (Reedsburg, WI).
 
With the game on the line Alfred State came through. After a lead-off walk Juan Rosa (Naguabo, Puerto Rico) came on and struck out the first batter. He then hit three consecutive batters as the Pioneers tied the game at 2-2. With one down and the bases still loaded the Roos got the lead runner on a force out at the plate but a two out single gave the hosts a 3-2 victory.
 
Rosa got the loss on the hill tossing two-thirds of an inning. He struck out one batter.
 
Game 2
The Roos scored three runs in the third and fourth innings to lead 3-2 midway through the fourth. Matos scored in the third when Douglas reached on an error. Two more runs came across in the next inning when Chris Roenbeck (Plattsburgh, NY) reached on another Pioneer error.
 
Alfred State had a big bottom of the fourth bringing across seven runs to open up a 9-3 advantage after four. SUNY Canton chipped away at the lead with three in the fifth and one in the sixth. Brandon Welch (Constable, NY) scored ona wild pitch and Christian Nazario-Cruz (Naguabo, Puerto Rico) plated Travis Schnidler on an RBI triple to right. Matos would bring home Nazario-Cruz in the ensuing at-bat with a single to left. Baez drove in his third run of the day to score Matt Hall (Palmyra, NY) in the sixth.
 
Robbie Osterer (Ottawa, ON) took the loss sprinkling five hits and five earned runs over 3.2 innings. He struck out three and walked four.
 
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