Solid road win for the Jackets.

Ithaca is having a down year but is always tough to beat at Freeman Field.

Rochester 18-4 ;Cortland 21-6

Both teams played Emory
-Rochester wins 9-6
-Cortland loses 7-18

Both teams played Brockport
-Rochester loses 2-6
-Cortland wins twice: 11-6 and 13-4

Too bad their March 24th game got rained out. Without that game it is tough to decide who is 1 in the region but with Cortlands history I can see where people would rank them first

Fisher beat Rochester but they are 15-8 overall so I also agree with Rochester being ranked ahead of them. The two play again at Fisher on the 28th which will be a huge game for regional points. Looks like Fisher also gets Cortland on the 29th! That's a huge stretch of games for the Cardinals.

My only greivance would be putting Fisher over Skidmore at 16-5. Skidmore is coming off a big win against New Paltz. I cant speak to any of Fishers loses down in PA, but dropping one to Brockport and two to RIT is enough for me to put them below a hot Skidmore team. I think the only thing keeping Fisher in talks of the 3 and even the 4 slot is that Rochester win.

Huge games for Skidmore and Rochester when the get together on the 24th and 25th for a 4-game set.


The New York region is heating up! Great time of year for some great baseball!

A lot of work to do before Rochester is in the Regional tournament. Sweeping RPI in a four-game set on the road is definitely a step in the right direction.

Vassar takes one from Clarkson this afternoon... any word on what happened there?

Rochester finishes the sweep with a 6-5 win over RPI.

Absolutely enormous weekend for the Yellowjackets.

Simply can't drop games to local rivals if your making a push for getting into the polls. That said, the thing that makes the liberty league schedule tough is that when you play your non conference games mid week you have to tap into your pitching depth, which for any team can be tough when your getting into your 6 & 7 arms.

Take it from someone who played in the liberty league for the past 4 years and saw some of the ranked non-conference teams, there's really no difference at all in talent. Your put the top tier (UR, RPI, Clarkson) against the top tier of another East Coast conference in a 3-game series with the 1,2 & 3 arms throwing, and I'd take the LL. I say East Coast because I have no exposure to the Chapmans and the Texas-Tylers of the world.

That said, you'd be lying to yourself if you said a 30 win season and no tourny wins will get the Jackets into the tourny. The last two years were 29 wins with 1 tourny win & 30 wins with 0 tourny wins and UR got the shaft. RPI puts up those numbers, they snag a bid. Doesn't seem like rocket science to conclude that in order to make the regional push you need get that first strong run in the tourny.

Thanks for the welcome BoomerIL!

Couldn't agree with you more about the offensive "monster" that UR looks like this year. Speed up and down the lineup and power in the 2,3,4 & 5 slots. Stein and Just have both shown gap to gap power already, and Caghan is basically a five tool player.

From the looks of it King is going to be taking over the closer role. I actually like that move because Chanatry can be stronger for more than one inning when given the chance, which is what UR's bullpen needs to find right now. In the seven inning games you can run a stater out there and go right to your closer, but with the full-9's you HAVE to have an arm to go eat up multiple innings (To all of you loyal UR fans, i'm talking about the Gabe Chodaks of the world).

Like Boomer said, this is the part of the schedule in the Liberty League where things heat up. The St. John Fisher-UR rivalry guarantees you a game, and the RPI weekend is always a battle to say the least. The Jackets will need to be firing on all cylinders to come out on top.

Rochester took 4 from Union. Senior SS Nate Stein hit two grand slams over the course of the weekend.

3 of 4 Rochester starters (including two freshman) looked strong on the mound. This Kowal kid is legit, 4-0 with a sub 0.50 ERA and better than a 3:1 K:BB ratio.