ELMIRA, N.Y. (April 26, 2015) – The Stevens Institute of baseball team had seven players record multiple RBI days as they rolled to a 22-4 victory over Elmira College on Sunday.

Every starter collected at least one hit, and the pitching staff held the Soaring Eagle bats to only five hits while collecting 27 as a unit. The team improved to 25-10 overall, while Elmira fell to 2-26.

The Soaring Eagles got on the board first with a pair in the bottom of the first as Rey Colon knocked in an RBI single and a sacrifice fly by Dennis Rudolph that plated Colon. After that, it was all Stevens.

Junior Jayson Yano doubled in a run in the top of the third, and came around to score on a groundout by fellow junior Nick Sieber. The Ducks tacked another run on in the following inning on a run-scoring single by senior Marc Calleo. The guests a trio of runs in the top of the sixth as sophomore Zeph Walters reached on an infield single that scored senior Gregg Nickels, while Sieber drove in two more runs with a single. 

The big blast came in the top of the sixth when Nickels belted his first homer of the season to left field for two runs, and Walters touching home a wild pitch. In a four-run seventh inning, Calleo doubled in a run, Walters and Yano had RBI hits, and Sieber knocked in Nickels on a groundout. 

Hayden Rothenberg and Bryce Plante each had RBI outs for the Soaring Eagles in the seventh and eighth innings respectively, but the Ducks finished them off in the top of the ninth by putting up a nine spot. John Sideris and Tyler Bush had RBI singles and Yano capped off his career day with a two-run double to left center. Junior Robert Robbins started and earned his fourth win of the year tossing five innings with seven strikeouts. 

Yano finished 6-for-6 on the afternoon with four RBIs while Walters was a perfect 4-for-4 with three runs scored. Nickels, Sideris, Bush, and Calleo all had two RBIs while Sieber recorded four RBIs. 

Rotherberg and Colon each had an RBI and a hit. 

The Ducks look to make it 11 straight when they travel to Long Island to battle Farmingdale State on Wednesday.

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