OSWEGO, N.Y. -- The No. 7 Oswego State baseball team earned its 30th win of the year on Tuesday afternoon when it downed the RIT Tigers 12-6; the Lakers improved to 30-7. The win once again breaks the prior program record of 27 wins in a season. RIT falls to 14-20 on the season with the loss.

It was RIT with the hot start in this contest as the Tigers scored four first-inning runs, but the Lakers fought back and were too much to overcome in the end. Chipping away, Myles Kutscher got his big day underway in the first with an RBI-single down the left-field line.

Later in the third inning, Kutscher reached on a fielder's choice and in the meantime drove in Brian Hamilton for the Lakers second run and his second RBI of the day. The junior eventually made it all the way around the bases and scored on a Mike Dellicarri groundout.

Furthermore in the third with John Barnes and Jordan Giller on base, Zach Kollar found the left-center field gap for two bases, two RBI and the 5-4 Laker lead.

Oswego would not relinquish the lead and the team collectively kept its foot on the gas. Kutscher returned to the dish in the fourth and crushed a two-run jack to left, driving in Eric Hamilton to extend the lead to 7-4.

Kutscher finished his day 3-for-4 with four RBI and three runs scored, while also earning a walk. E. Hamilton was 2-for-4 at the plate to bring his season hit total to 58, just three shy of tying Oswego's single-season record with the SUNYAC Championship games on the horizon.

In the sixth inning Matt Capobianco entered the game as a defensive replacement at second and immediately got to work smacking a single to center. Barnes and Giller, who each got on base in succession once again, scored on the play.

To round up the scoring for the Lakers, B. Hamilton and Giller each had hits in the seventh to drive in runners. B. Hamilton finished with a hit, RBI, and two runs scored in the contest; Giller went 3-for-5 with an RBI and two runs scored.

Nathan Boughton earned the win in relief to improve to 2-1 on the season after Miles Kelly pitched the first two frames. Five other pitchers -- Bobby Zywicki, Cody LaFlamme, Brandon Schultzkie, Matt Zakala, and Ryan Matthews -- entered the game after Boughton, combining to finish it off. The 'pen allowed just two earned runs and five hits in seven innings of work.

The two-seeded Lakers will now head to Cortland on Friday for the SUNYAC Championships. Oswego will play the three-seeded Brockport Golden Eagles in the first game of the double-elimination championships hosted by the top-seeded Red Dragons of Cortland.

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