Box Score - Game 1
Box Score - Game 2

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell baseball team opened Ivy League play with a doubleheader split with Brown on Saturday afternoon at Schoellkopf Field, falling in game one by a 10-2 margin before collecting 16 hits in an 8-4 victory in the nightcap. The Big Red moved to 3-11 (1-1 Ivy) in helping first-year head coach Bill Walkenbach earn his first Ancient Eight victory.

Freshman Brian Billigen went 3-for-3 with a walk, two RBI and a run scored to lead five Big Red players with multi-hit efforts in game two. Matt Langseth was 3-for-4, while Domenic Di Ricco, Jadd Schmeltzer and Nate David each had a pair of hits. Stephen Osterer, Taylor Wood and David Rochefort were brilliant in the final 3.2 innings of relief, allowing three hits, no runs and striking out four to close out the win. Osterer evened his record at 1-1 in relief of Schmeltzer, who allowed three earned runs in the first 5.1 innings, striking out five.

In game one, Mickey Brodsky had a pair of hits, but Bears pitcher Mark Gormley was outstanding on the mound, scattering five hits, including four singles, in a complete game victory. He struck out seven in 7.0 innings, walking two. The big blow for Brown came on a three-run homer by Pete Greskoff in the decisive four-run fifth inning.

The nightcap saw Schmeltzer and Brown starter Will Wiedig put together three shutout innings apiece before both teams broke through. Brown jumped out to a 2-0, but the Big Red responded with a three-run bottom of the inning, highlighted by Billigen's first hit of the day, a two-run triple to deep centerfield  that gave the home team its first lead of the day at 3-2. The Bears knotted the score at 3-3 in the fifht on a Matt Nuzzo single, but again, the Big Red answered. Schmeltzer helped his own caused with an RBI single in the bottom frame to make it 4-3, but again, the Bears tied it up. Brown was opportunistic, taking advantage of a pair of wild pitches to score the equalizer.

This time, Cornell's answer would be decisive. And final.

Four straight hits, including a pair of bunt singles, opened what would be a four-run sixth inning. Scott Hardinger's bullet double down the leftfield line, the fourth consecutive hit, drove in the three players in front of him for what would be the game-winning hit. A Brodsky single to right-center would drive in the final run to make it 8-4, and the bullpen would do the rest to help Cornell snap an 11-game losing streak.