PRINCE ATHLETIC COMPLEX – Jacob Matzat tied a 71-year-old record for runs batted in for a single game when he drove in nine in Rochester's 18-10 victory over Clarkson University on Saturday evening at Towers Field. He had five hits in six plate appearances and scored four runs. It was the highest number of RBIs for one Yellowjacket player since Thomas Sarro dove in nine runs for UR in a 1951 game against St. Lawrence.
 
He had plenty of help. Matt Cappelletti drove in four runs and four others had one RBI apiece. Rochester had 10 extra-base hits mixed among its 24-hit attack. UR hitters clubbed four doubles, two triples, and four home runs. Eight of the nine regulars had multiple hits – Matzat with five  hits, five others with three hits apiece: Harper Sy, Jackson Reed, Josh Leadem, John Moses, Brian McKinsey. Joseph Rende had two hits. Matzat homered in the first and third, doubled in the second, tripled in the sixth, and singled in the seventh.
 
Clarkson produced its 10 runs on a dozen hits, five for extra bases. Colby Brouillette and Joe Pagano hit one HR and double apiece. Kent Wilson had a three-run triple in the later innings. Wilson and Brouillettte had three RBIs each.
 
Rochester's Nolan Sparks picked up his fourth win of the season. He pitched five innings, allowing six runs on eight hits and three walks. He fanned six. Sparks was followed by Sammy Rosenfield (1.1 IP) and Dillon Bevan (2.2 IP). The loss went to CU's Griffin Tubbs (2-2). He left with two down in the third. Hunter Geisler pitched 3.1 innings in relief and Kenneth Coe pitched the last three.
 
This was the first of a three-game series between Clarkson and Rochester. It was originally scheduled for Clarkson, but when steady, heavy rains drenched the North Country area, the coaches agreed to move the games to Rochester's field. They will play a doubleheader on Sunday – a seven-inning game at 1 pm, a 9-inning game at 3:30 pm. Clarkson is hitting as the home team in each game. 

Rochester is 17-4 overall, 6-0 in the Liberty League. Clarkson is 5-11 overall, 2-4 in the Liberty League.
 
The tone was set early. With one down in the top of the first, Rende hit the third pitch of the game over the left center field fence for a 1-0 lead. Matzat hit the next pitch over the centerfield fence for a 2-0 edge. Tubbs escaped further trouble and his teammates produced a run in the bottom of the first. A single by Caleb Doyle and two walks loaded the bases. Mike Nee grounded into a force play that brought home Doyle. Sparks settled down   and earned back to back strikeouts to get out of the inning.
 
Rochester rewarded him by batting around in the second and third innings and scoring 11 runs in the process. In the second, Moses doubled and was bunted to third by Cappelletti, McKinsey was hit by a pitch. Aaron Whitley's ground ball was misplayed on an attempt to start a DP. It loaded the bases. Tubbs fanned Rende for the second out. Matzat lashed a bases-clearing double into the left field corner. Sy followed with a triple up the right centerfield gap. When the relay throw was mishandled, he slid home for a 7-1 lead.
 
In the third, Cappellettti hit a two-run home run that scored Moses. Rende doubled with two down and Matzat followed with a long home run to centerfield – his sixth RBI of the game and third HR this week (he had one vs. Oswego on Tuesday). That ended Tubbs' night. Four straight hits brought home two more runs and a 13-1 lead. Rochester scored single runs from the fourth through sixth innings. Matzat hit a sac fly in the fourth, then added his last two ribbies on a bases-loaded single in the seventh.
 
Clarkson scored three times in the third – on a wild pitch, a groundout, and a solo HR by Joe Pagano. Brouillette hit a two-run HR in the fourth. CU loaded the bases against Rosenfield in the seventh (down 18-6). He was relieved by Bevan who was greeted by Wilson's triple to right. Wilson scored the fourth run of the inning on Brouillettte's groundout.