Box Score (Dartmouth 3, Cornell 2 - 10 inn.)
Box Score (Dartmouth 4, Cornell 2)

HANOVER, N.H. -- The Cornell pitching staff held the high-powered Dartmouth offense to just seven runs in 19 innings on Saturday, but the offense came up on the short end of a pair of games in Hanover, N.H. The Big Red lost the opener, 3-2, in 10 innings, before falling by a 4-2 margin in game two.

Starters Corey Pappel and Connor Kaufmann both had strong outings on the day in giving the Big Red a chance to claim the victory. Pappel went six and a third in the opener, allowing one run on three hits with three strikeouts, while Kaufmann went five innings in game two, scattering eight hits and two walks while allowing a pair of runs and striking out two.

At the plate, Marshall Yanzick went 3-for-8 on the day, while Brenton Peters was 2-for-5 with a pair of runs scored and one batted in. Frank Hager, Brandon Lee and Mickey Brodsky each chipped in with a pair of hits, while Brian Billigen clubbed a home run for his only hit on the afternoon as Cornell slipped to 3-19 on the year and 1-5 in Ivy League play.

The opener was a true pitchers duel, as both Pappel and Dartmouth starter Kyle Hunter held the offenses scoreless until the sixth. In that inning, Pappel allowed a one-out walk and a single to put runners on first and third, and a groundout to first scored the game's first run as the Big Green took the lead. In the top of the seventh, Cornell tied the score on back-to-back singles by Hager and Lee, separated by a wild pitch, that allowed Peters to score as a pinch-runner for Hager and send the game to extra innings.

Marks came on in relief of Pappel with a pair of runners on in the bottom of the seventh and got a pair of strikeouts to end the Dartmouth rally. He then sent the Big Green down in order in the eighth and the ninth, but the offense could not push ahead a go-ahead run until the 10th when Billigen hit a two-out home run to right center.

In the bottom of the 10th, a one-out walk was followed with a triple to right-center to knot the score at two. The next two batters were intentionally walked to set up a force at each base, but the Big Green's Jason Brooks delivered a single to left to score the game-winner.

Kaufmann flirted with danger in both of the first two innings before Dartmouth finally got on the board in the third, manufacturing a run to take the 1-0 lead. Cornell got the run back in the fifth as Peters hit a one-out double to left, then scored on Mike Lopez's single up the middle. 

The Big Green (15-6, 4-2 Ivy) again took the lead in the bottom half of the inning, and Kaufmann gave way to Houston Hawley to open the sixth. Hawley struck out four over the next three innings, but Dartmouth added a pair of key insurance runs in the seventh on back-to-back singles and a two-run triple by Ennis Coble to make the score 4-1. Cornell cut into the lead in the ninth as Ben Swinford reached on an error and moved to third on a one-out double by Hager, then scored on Peters' groundout to first, but Lee struck out to end the game.

Cornell will try to pick up a split on the weekend when the Big Red travels to Cambridge to take on Harvard on Sunday. First pitch of the twinbill with the Crimson is scheduled for noon.