Box Score (Game 1)
Box Score (Game 2)

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Cornell baseball team dropped a pair of contests at Brown on Sunday, falling in the opener, 13-6, and dropping a 15-4 decision in game two. Brown hitters banged out 29 hits on the day as Cornell slipped to 6-14 on the year and 2-6 in Ivy League play.

Brenton Peters was a bright spot at the plate for the Big Red, going 5-for-6 with a pair of runs scored, including his first career home run in game two, when he went 4-for-4. Frank Hager was 3-for-8 on the day, scoring once and driving in one. Nate David drove in four runs in going 2-for-6 on the day.

On the mound, Cornell pitchers struggled. Matt Hill lasted just three innings in the opener, allowing nine runs on 10 hits with three strikeouts. Mike Kazley pitched three innings of relief, allowing four runs on six hits with a pair of strikeouts. In game two, Jadd Schmeltzer lasted just two innings, giving up six runs, only two of them earned, on three hits and three walks. Taylor Wood also worked a pair of innings, allowing eight runs, six earned, on six hits. Rick Marks and Mike Carroll combined for three scoreless innings, and David Rochefort allowed one unearned run in his one inning of action.

Cornell trailed, 2-0, after two innings in the opener, as Brown plated one run in both of the first two frames. The Big Red got on the board in the third as Matt Langseth opened the inning with a double to left and scored on Brian Billigen's single to center. Brown responded by scoring five runs in the third, combining four singles, two doubles and a walk in sending nine men to the plate in the inning. In the fourth, the Bears tacked on another three runs to extend the lead to 10-1 as Hill left the game after two batters.

Cornell scored three times in the sixth, with Hager and Brandon Lee opening the inning with back-to-back doubles and David hitting a home run to left. But Brown scored another three runs in the bottom half of the inning. Nate David hit a sacrifice fly in the ninth, and Schmeltzer had a pinch-hit single to left to score Mickey Brodsky, as Cornell scored twice in the top of the seventh to close the final margin.

In game two, Peters got the Big Red started with a solo home run to center in the first, but Brown scored a pair in the bottom half of the inning to jump out to the lead. The Bears then added another four runs in the second, keyed by a three-run home run by Ryan Zrenda, though all four runs in the inning were unearned. The Big Red cut into the lead with a run in the third, as David scored on Hager's single to center, but Brown tagged Wood for six runs in the third to break the game open, 12-2.

Kyle Groth hit a solo home run in the fourth, but Brown added another pair in the bottom half of the inning. Cornell added another run in the sixth, with David hitting an RBI single to center, scoring Langseth, but Brown finished the scoring with an unearned run in the bottom of the eighth.

Cornell returns home for a pair of non-league contests on Wednesday, playing host to Le Moyne in a doubleheader at Hoy Field. First pitch of the game is 2 p.m.