ROCHESTER, N.Y.—The Hobart baseball team powered past the University of Rochester with an impressive 11–5 victory at Towers Field on Monday night. The Statesmen's offense shone brightly, belting four home runs as part of a 15-hit barrage and stealing five bases.
 
First-year Jack O'Neil led the offense with four hits, including his first collegiate homer, and four RBIs. Senior Will Jones also collected four hits with a home run, driving in three. Junior Sean Garvin also hit a home run as part of a two-hit, two-RBI night. Senior Connor O'Neil, who had four doubles in yesterday's doubleheader sweep of UR, collected two more hits tonight, including his first collegiate home run.
 
Senior Cole Tarrant started on the mound, pitching 1 1/3 innings and allowing four runs on five hits. Junior Charlie Forrest provided solid relief, striking out three over 2 2/3 innings, while first-year Joe Dunham dominated with five strikeouts over four innings, allowing just one hit. Senior Max Friedlander pitched a scoreless ninth to wrap up the win.
 
"Today, we again showed our resilience coming back after a tough first inning," Hobart Head Coach Brad Cook said. "Credit to Rochester they came out swinging.
 
"Overall it was a great weekend. We swung the bats well all weekend. Yesterday, we had some big innings, but today we applied constant pressure scoring in seven innings. I can't say enough about our bullpen. Charlie, Joe and Max were lights out."
 
The Statesmen (17-6, 5-0) manufactured two runs in the top of the first, but Rochester countered with four runs in their half of the inning. In the second inning, Hobart closed the gap thanks to an RBI single by Jack O'Neil that scored first-year Quinn Dashefsky.
 
Rochester (8-10, 1-5) added to its lead with a run in the fourth. But from the fifth inning on, Hobart did all the scoring. Connor O'Neil smashed a solo homer in the fifth inning, cutting the deficit to one.
 
The Statesmen's bats truly came alive in the sixth. Jack O'Neil hit a three-run homer to left center, followed by Garvin's solo shot to center for an 8–5 Hobart lead.
 
Will Jones further extended Hobart's lead with a homer in the seventh, Garvin pushed across another run with an RBI single in the eighth, and Jones drove in Connor O'Neil in the ninth.
 
The Statesmen will head north for a three-game series against Clarkson University beginning on Friday, April 3 at 4 p.m. in Potsdam, New York.