Box Score

HARRISONBURG, Va. -- Mickey Brodsky and Phil Mullan both collected a pair of hits, but the Cornell baseball team fell to James Madison, 6-4, in a non-conference baseball contest on Tuesday night in Harrisonburg, Va. The loss drops the Big Red to 1-10 on the season, while the Dukes improved to 16-5.

Brian Billigen, Brenton Peters, Frank Hager and Ryan Plantier each added one hit for the Big Red on the night. Cornell scored a run in the first and three more in the seventh, but could not regain the lead after James Madison took a 5-1 lead in the fourth inning.

Dan Lea got the start and worked three innings, allowing a pair of earned runs on three hits and two walks while striking out two. Anthony Irigoyen went two innings, allowing three runs, but only one of them earned, and Houston Hawley went an inning and two-thirds, allowing one run. Rick Marks closed out the game with a scoreless inning and a third, striking out one.

Cornell took a 1-0 lead when Brian Billigen hit a lead-off home run in the first inning, but the Dukes tied the score with a David Herbeck home run in the bottom half of the inning. James Madison took a 2-1 lead in the third, then broke the game open in the fourth with three runs, but only one of them earned. 

Cornell then cut the deficit to 5-4 in the seventh. A leadoff single by Plantier was followed by Marshall Yanzick being hit by a pitch, and the pair moved up a base on a sacrifice bunt by Billigen. A wild pitch scored Plantier, and Peters walked, to put runners on first and third. Brodsky followed with a single to left to score Yanzick, moving Peters to second, and he scored when Hager singled to center.

Cornell and James Madison will close out the two-game set on Wednesday with a 4 p.m. contest in Harrisonburg, Va.