ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell baseball team will look to a mid-week doubleheader against Central New York rival Le Moyne to try to stop its five-game losing streak and turn the season around. The Big Red and Dolphins will meet in a pair of seven-inning games on Wednesday at Hoy Field, with the first pitch of game one being thrown at 2 p.m.

Cornell has lost five straight games, last getting into the win column on April 4, an 11-2 win over Harvard. Since then, the Big Red dropped a mid-week game against Binghamton, 10-9, in 12 innings, and was swept at both Yale on Saturday and Brown on Sunday.

One bright spot for the Big Red over the past week has been the emergence of freshman Brenton Peters, who went 9-for-12 and hit safely in all five games, despite entering two of those games off the bench. Peters hit a solo home run, three doubles and scored four times on the week.

On the season, Mickey Brodsky continues to lead the Big Red regulars, batting .382 with 11 runs scored and 12 driven in. Frank Hager and Brian Billigen are both batting .333 on the season, with Hager driving in a team-best 16 runs and scoring 10 times. Hager also has a pair of home runs with a team-best 10 doubles. Billigen, meanwhile, has also scored 10 runs and driven in 14, with five doubles, three triples and two home runs. Brandon Lee is also batting better than .300 at .309 for the year with seven runs scored and nine driven in with one home run. Nate David and Kyle Groth share the team lead with three home runs apiece. Peters is 22 at-bats shy of qualifying for the team regular status, but is batting .611 on the season with seven runs scored and two driven in.

On the mound for the Big Red, Corey Pappel continues to pitch well, posting a 2.70 earned-run average to lead all starters. He leads the team in innings pitched (30.0) and in strikeouts (33) and is tied with Tony Bertucci for the team lead in wins with two. Bertucci has also pitched well, posting a 2.78 earned-run average in 22.2 innings, striking out 15. Matt Hill and Taylor Wood own the other two wins for the Big Red pitching staff this season. David Rochefort leads Cornell's relief corps, posting a 0.79 earned-run average and 12 strikeouts in 11.1 innings of work with a pair of saves.

LeMoyne enters the week at 18-17 on the year after dropping its last three games to Longwood, but will play a single game against Canisius on Tuesday before battling the Big Red on Wednesday in a twinbill. The Dolphins are led offensively by Matt Marra, who is batting .375 with 27 runs scored and a team-best 37 driven in. Zach Wiley (.352) and Chris Edmondson (.321) are both over .300 on the year, with Wiley leading the team with 36 runs scored and Edmondson recording a team-best seven home runs.

Among Dolphin hurlers, LeMoyne has a trio of regular starters with a sub-5.00 earned-run average on the year, led by Cory Nelson's 4.04 mark. Jeff Tardiff leads the team in innings pitched (48.1), while Nelson has a team-high 36 strikeouts in 42.1 innings of work. Reliever Luke Nellis has two of the Dolphins' three saves on the season.

Cornell and LeMoyne met earlier this season on March 31, with the Dolphins rallying for a 7-6 victory at Dick Rockwell Field in Syracuse, N.Y. In the first meeting of the season, Mickey Brodsky, Nate David and Marshall Yanzick each had a pair of hits, with both Brodsky and David scoring a pair of runs and Jadd Schmeltzer and Brandon Lee driving in a pair each. David was also a perfect 3-for-3 in stolen base attempts on the day.

Brodsky got the start on the mound and worked a pair of innings, allowing one run on three hits with three strikeouts. Rochefort took the loss, allowing his only earned run of the season in 1.2 innings of work.

LeMoyne and Cornell have met 48 times in baseball, with the Big Red claiming victory in just 12 of those meetings. The two programs first met in 1964, with Cornell claiming a 9-3 victory that season. Cornell's last victory over the Dolphins came last season, a 7-5 win on April 14, in Syracuse. Wednesday's doubleheader will mark the first time that Cornell and LeMoyne will meet in Ithaca since the Dolphins claimed an 11-5 victory in 10 innings on April 3, 2008.

After the doubleheader against the Dolphins on Wednesday, Cornell will return to Ivy League play with a four-game set against Penn in Philadelphia on Saturday and Sunday. The Big Red and Quakers will play a pair of doubleheaders each day, with the first pitch scheduled for 12 p.m. on both afternoons. Cornell returns home on Tuesday for another non-conference doubleheader against Siena, beginning at 2 p.m. at Hoy Field.