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DOVER, Del. – Cornell dropped a Sunday doubleheader at Delaware State on day two of the Sean Savage Memorial Tournament for Epilepsy Awareness, collecting just nine hits in 2-0 and 3-1 losses at the Hornets Nest. The Big Red dropped to 7-10 on the season with the sweep.

Game One – Box Score (PDF)
Delaware State scored two runs in the fifth and its pitching staff made it hold up, allowed just three hits in a 2-0 shutout of the Big Red.

Leanne Iannucci had a double and both Jessica Bigbie and Lauren Bucolo went 1-for-3 with singles for the Big Red offensively. Cornell stranded six base runners in the contest, including being kept off the scoreboard with the bases loaded and one out in the second as the Hornets induced a double play. Cornell brought the tying run to the plate in the seventh, but couldn't plate a run.

Sammy Roth held Delaware State at bay most of the day despite allowing eight hits in her 4.1 innings of work. Alyson Onyon pitched a perfect final 1.2 innings, striking out three.

Vanessa Ciocatto picked up the win with six innings of scoreless, three-hit ball. Tara Tursellino's two-run double was the difference.

Game Two – Box Score (PDF)
Cornell jumped on Delaware State for the first run, but a third-inning error proved costly, eventually leading to three runs. That's all the Hornets and Tara Tursellino needed as she improved to 8-2 on the year in the circle with a six-hitter. She allowed just one unearned run and struck out two.

Alyson Onyon was every bit the equal of Tursellino, but three unearned runs in the third let her down. She went the distance, allowing just five hits while striking out three.

Leanne Iannucci got Cornell on the board with a fielder's choice after a Chloe Pendergast double, and an error on a ball hit by Sophie Giaquinto. The Hornets answered back an inning later, taking advantage of a two-out error to score all three runs with the big blow coming on a two-run go-ahead single by Tursellino, who helped herself as part of a 2-for-3 afternoon.

Senior Christina Villalon and freshman Pendergast both went 1-for-3 with a double in the loss.