Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score

HANOVER, N.H. -- The Cornell baseball team banged out 19 runs and 26 hits, but still came out on the short side of a pair of contests to Dartmouth on Sunday afternoon in Hanover, N.H. Cornell dropped the opener, 13-8, before falling in game two, 14-11. The losses drop the Big Red to 4-16 on the season and 2-6 in Ivy League play, while Dartmouth improves to 10-9 overall and 8-0 in league action.

Scott Hardinger went 6-for-8 to lead the Big Red offense on the day, driving in one run and scoring twice. Mickey Brodsky went 2-for-6 with five runs batted in, while Brian Billigen scored a team-best four times while going 5-for-9 at the plate.

Cornell's pitchers had a different type of day as the Big Green tagged Cornell hurlers for 27 runs on 27 hits in 14 innings. Corey Pappel had the longest outing on the mound, working 4.1 innings and allowing six runs, four of them earned, on four hits and three walks.

The Big Red got off to a rough start in the opener as game one starter Tony Bertucci was touched up for three runs in the bottom of the first. The Big Red got on the board and took the lead with four runs in the second inning, with the big blast being a two-run double down the left field line by Billigen. Cornell added a single run in the third on Adam Jacobs' solo home run to lead off the inning, before tacking on another two runs in the fourth to take a 7-3 lead.

That lead didn't last as Dartmouth went ahead, 9-7, in the bottom of the fourth. Dartmouth got a pair of home runs in the frame as Bertucci was chased from the game after 3.2 innings. The Big Green added a run in the fifth before Cornell got one back in the sixth, but Dartmouth sealed the game away with another three runs in the bottom of the sixth.

Bertucci took the loss, allowing eight runs on eight hits and five walks while striking out one.

In game two, Dartmouth jumped all over starter Mickey Brodsky, chasing him from the game after just one inning. The Big Green struck for nine runs in the second inning, sending 12 men to the plate in the inning. Brodsky was charged with seven runs on six hits for the loss.

Cornell chipped away at the lead, scoring a pair of runs in the third on a two-run home run by Jacobs, and another in the fifth when Jacobs scored on a sacrifice fly by Brodsky. Dartmouth then added four runs in the sixth to make the score 13-3 heading into the final three frames.

Cornell closed the gap in the eighth inning, scoring six times to cut the deficit to 13-9. Cornell chipped away, stringing together two walks, three singles and an error, combined with a two-run double by Nathan Ford, to cut the deficit to just four.

Dartmouth added a run in the bottom of the eighth, with Cornell putting together another rally in the top of the ninth to close the gap. Ford and Brodsky both drove in a run, but Cornell could not draw closer than the final three run margin.

Cornell returns home for a non-conference contest against Binghamton on Wednesday. Cornell takes on the Bearcats at 3 p.m. at Hoy Field in Ithaca.