Cobleskill, N.Y.: The SUNY Cobleskill baseball team returned to action on Wednesday afternoon to sweep the visiting Kangaroos of SUNY Canton in North Atlantic Conference (NAC) action by scores of 16-8 and 13-2 at Fighting Tiger Field. With the victories the Fighting Tigers move to 9-17 overall on the season including a 5-1 in conference action while the Kangaroos are now 1-22 overall with a 0-5 record versus league opponents.
 
In the opener the Fighting Tigers out slugged the Kangaroos using a six-run fifth inning to extend a 7-to-6 lead to 13-6 to secure the win behind highlighted by a two-run homer by sophomore left fielder Logan Firment, Andes, N.Y., South Kortright High School.
 
The Cobleskill offense pounded out 21 hits in the victory led by junior second baseman Stephen Tejada, Queens, N.Y., High School for Construction Technologies, who went 5-for-6 with a double, two runs scored and an RBI, senior right fielder Samuel Gutierrez, Queens, N.Y., Martin Van Buren High School/Queensborough Community College, who went 2-for-5 with a home run and three RBI and Logan Firment who went 3-for-5 with a pair of doubles, a homer, three runs scored and two RBI.
 
In the finale, the Fighting Tigers took advantage of a depleted Kangaroo pitching staff to post 13 runs in a rain shortened five inning contest on 10 hits with five going for extra bases.
 
Right fielder Samuel Gutierrez led the Orange & Black going 3-for-3 with a pair of home runs, three runs scored and seven RBI while left fielder Logan Firment despite officially going 0-1 drove in three runs with three sacrifice flies.
 
Cobleskill will next be in action over the weekend when they travel to Quincy, Massachusetts for a four-game NAC series versus the Lions of Eastern Nazarene College with a doubleheader on Friday April 19 beginning at 3:00 p.m. followed by a doubleheader on Saturday April 20 starting at 12:00 p.m.