Game 1 Box Score (Cornell 7, Binghamton 2)
Game 2 Box Score (Cornell 7, Binghamton 5)
ITHACA, N.Y. -- In the final tuneup for this weekend's Ivy League Championship, Cornell's offense pounded out 30 hits in sweeping a doubleheader from Binghamton on Tuesday afternoon at East Gym Field. The wins push the Big Red's record to 35-12 heading into its best-of-3 game series against Ivy North Division champion Harvard beginning on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. at Niemand*Robison Field. Cornell won game one 7-2, then knocked off the Bearcats 7-5 in the nightcap.
Game one saw the Big Red score three runs in each of the first two innings and pound out a total of 15 hits in the comfortable victory. Erin Keene was 3-for-4 with a double and two RBI, while Alyson Intihar, Shannon Crane, Elise Menaker and Devon March each had two hits. Each of Cornell's nine starters posted at least one hit in the win, and Binghamton couldn't solve Big Red starting pitcher Elizabeth Dalrymple. The junior picked up her 19th win of the year by allowing just two hits in 5.1 innings, striking out nine. She gave way to Jenna Stoller, who pitched the final 1.2 innings.
The second contest was a pitcher's duel with neither team able to crack the scoreboard over the first three innings. The Big Red finally broke through with two runs in the top of the fourth inning. Four hits in the frame, including an RBI double by Ali Tomlinson and a run-scoring single by Katie Watts, put the Big Red ahead for good. A two-out, two-run homer by Menaker in the fifth moved the score to 4-0. Binghamton answered right back with a three-run fifth to claw back within one. The big blow came on a two-run triple by Stephanie Valencia, who scored on a Stephanie DeLuca two-out single. Cornell got one run back in the sixth on an Intihar single to make it 5-3. A home run by Tomlinson and an RBI single by Marissa Amaraian in the seventh brought the lead back to four. BU made one last stand in the bottom of the seventh, with Valencia hitting a two-run homer, but Lauren Marx was able to retire the final two hitters to clinch the win.
The star of game two was Tomlinson, who was 3-for-4 with a double, a home run, two RBI and two runs scored at the plate, while surrendering three hits in three innings in the circle. Morgan Cawley was 3-for-3 and Menaker went 2-for-4 with a home run and two RBI.