ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Seven pitchers combined on a four-hitter as the University of Rochester defeated 25^th-ranked Ithaca College, 6-0, at Towers Field on Wednesday afternoon.

Rochester won its fifth straight game and 11^th in the last 13. The Yellowjackets are 15-12 heading into a home Liberty League weekend against Vassar College.

Ithaca saw its five-game win streak snapped. The Bombers came into the game with 15 wins in their last 16 games. Ithaca is 19-6 heading into a road Empire 8 weekend at St. John Fisher College.

The game was originally scheduled for Ithaca on Tuesday but moved to Rochester's Towers Field because it has an artificial surface. Ithaca hit as the home team Wednesday.

Rochester had eight hits and drew six walks against five Ithaca pitchers. Defensively, the Yellowjackets turned three double plays, the last a pitcher-home-first sequence to end the game after Ithaca loaded the bases with one down.

Rob Mabee was the winning pitcher. He worked the third inning for Rochester and was the pitcher of record when the Yellowjackets scored three unearned runs in the top of the fourth. Mabee was followed on the mound by Josh Schulman, Ethan McGowan, Grant Petitio, Andrew Crean, and Evan Janifer. Dan Warren started. He pitched two innings of 1-2-3 ball with two strikeouts.

Ithaca had the first serious scoring threat. With two down in the third, Cooper Belyea doubled down the right field line. Mabee got Chris Brown to line out to short to end the inning.

The losing pitcher was Ithaca starter Zach Pidgeon. He breezed threw the first three innings, then hurt himself with a throwing error when Rochester scored three times in the fourth.

Nolan Schultz singled down the left field line and moved to second on a balk. Brendan Garry bunted back to the mound. Pidgeon threw to third but the throw was high on a close play and Schultz slid in safely. Lance Hamilton bounced back to the mound. Pidgeon fielded, looked Schultz back to third, looked at Garry heading for second, then threw wildly past first. Schultz scored, Garry took third, and Hamilton reached second. Sam Slutsky's infield bounced scored Garry and Hamilton moved to third. He scored on a single by Brian Munoz.

Rochester scored three more times in the fifth, all charged to Brandon Diorio. With one out, Josh Ludwig walked and stole second. Schultz walked. Diorio fanned Garry for the second out, but Hamilton singled to left, scoring Ludwig for a 4-0 lead. Diorio was replaced by Chris Anderson. Slutsky hit his second pitch down the right field line for a triple to increase the lead to 6-0.

Colby Gee had two of Ithaca's four hits. He singled without out in the seventh, then got his second single in the ninth when the Bombers staged a mild rally against Janifer.

With one out, pinch-hitter Cameron Oathout and Tim Henry walked. Janifer got ahead of Gee 0-2 before Gee grounded the next pitch up the middle to load the bases. That brought up Luke Stark. Down 1-2 in the count, Stark grounded back to the mound. Janifer threw home to Schultz for the force on Oathout and Schultz fired to Garry to complete the double play.