CARY, N.C. - The Slippery Rock University baseball team earned a 9-4 victory against Dominican College (N.Y.) on day three of the Division II Challenge Sunday at the USA Baseball Training Complex in Cary, North Carolina.
 
The Rock's victory capped off a successful trip to the USA Baseball Training Complex for SRU. Slippery Rock won three of its four games at the Division II Challenge to exit the weekend with a 6-2 overall record. Dominican drops to 1-8 in 2020 after the loss.
 
Slippery Rock produced 10 hits while drawing 11 walks Sunday. The 11 walks were the most by The Rock in a single game since a 14-walk contest against Pitt-Johnstown on April 1, 2017 (127 games).
 
On the mound, The Rock's pitching duo of Tanner Esposito (1-1) and Ricky Mineo combined to limit Dominican to just three hits.
 
Esposito went 6.2 innings for The Rock, allowing four runs, only one of which was earned, on two hits and five walks while striking out seven batters. Mineo came on for Esposito in the seventh and proceeded give up just one hit while striking out five batters over 2.1 innings of shutout pitching. Mineo has not allowed a run in two relief appearances this season (4.1 innings).
 
The quartet of Abraham Mow, Jon Kozarian, Alex Robenolt and Luke Trueman all registered two-hit days with Mow driving in a pair of runs and hitting his second triple in as many games. Trueman also walked twice while driving in one run and scoring another.
 
Vince Donato was 1-for-3 with a walk and three RBI. Connor Hamilton scored one run and reached base twice by way of a double and a walk. Koby Bubash scored three runs while Joel Spishock walked twice and Anthony Cinicola drove in one run to round out The Rock's top contributors.
 
Trailing 3-1, Slippery Rock began its rally in the bottom of the fourth with a three-run frame in which Mow plated two runs via a two-out triple followed by an RBI-double from Kozarian, who extended his hitting streak to eight games, to give SRU a 4-3 lead it would never relinquish.
 
The Rock went on to post three additional runs over the fifth and sixth innings followed by a two-run single by Donato in the eighth to put an exclamation point on the win.
 
Dominican used five pitchers against The Rock. Starter Joel Sabene (0-2) took the loss after surrendering six runs on six hits and a walk. The Mustangs' offense was held to just one run and one hit in the game's final five innings.
 
Slippery Rock now returns north to host Kutztown University in a non-conference doubleheader March 11 at Ross Memorial Park in Washington, Pennsylvania. First pitch of game one is slated for 1 p.m.



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