Game 1 Box Score (Cornell 13, Ithaca 1)
Game 2 Box Score (Cornell 6, Ithaca 2)

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell softball team hit the 30-win plateau with a doubleheader sweep of crosstown rival Ithaca College on Wednesday afternoon at Kostrinsky Field. Cornell won game one 13-1, then topped the Bombers 6-2 in the nightcap. Cornell improved to 30-11, the fifth straight year it has hit that mark and the 13th time in the last 14 seasons.

In game one, Cornell and Ithaca embarked on what looked to be like a pitcher's duel, with the Bombers leading 1-0 after four innings, but that all changed in the fifth. The Big Red pieced together seven runs on three hits, three walks, three errors and a passed ball. The passed ball scored Alyson Intihar to tie the game, then two runs scored on a fielding error. By the time the inning was over, the Big Red led 7-1. It got worse for the Bombers, who had seven errors and allowed seven unearned runs in the game, surrendered six runs in the seventh. A pair of two-run doubles, one by Ali Tomlinson and another by Morgan Cawley, provided the pop in the inning.

Tomlinson went the first three innings, allowing three hits and the Bombers' only run, striking out three without issuing a free pass. Marx picked up the win out of the bullpen, giving up just two hits in four innings with four strikeouts. Cawley and Marissa Amiraian each had a pair of hits, while each of the first five batters in the order scored twice in the final three innings.

Game two saw the Big Red get off to a much better start, scoring three runs in the first, including a two-run shot by Cawley. Elise Menaker was 2-for-4 with two doubles and three RBI, while Cawley also drove in three runs. Alyson Intihar scored three times. Both teams committed four errors in a windy environment on South Hill.

Menaker drove in a pair on a double in the fifth and added an insurance run in the seventh on a Cawley groundout. IC plated two runs in the bottom of the inning, but Cornell was able to get out of the jam to earn the win.

Cornell pitchers surrendered just two earned runs and no extra-base hits in the two contests.