ITHACA, N.Y. — Senior Kellen Urbon took a no-hitter into the fifth inning, then went on to pitch a three-hit shutout to lead the baseball team to a 2-0 victory over Penn in the first game of Sunday's doubleheader at Hoy Field. The Quakers would later hold on for a 5-4 victory in the second game.
 
Senior Spencer Scorza was 2-for-3 with a double, a run and an RBI in the first game. In the second game, senior Kevin Tatum was 3-for-5 with a double and two runs, and sophomore Frankie Padulo was 3-for-3 with an RBI. Tatum had a team-best four hits on the day.
 
The split leaves the Big Red four games behind Penn and Columbia in the Ivy League's Lou Gehrig Division standings with eight games to play for each team.
 
Cornell (9-20, 6-6 Ivy) hits the road for its next nine games, starting with a non-league doubleheader against Siena at 2 p.m. Tuesday before next weekend's crucial four-game series at Columbia.
 
Game 1: CORNELL 2, PENN 0 (Box Score)
Urbon negated a leadoff walk by inducing a double play, setting off a stretch of 12 consecutive batters retired before Penn's Ryan Mincher broke up the no-hit bid with a one-out double off the top of the left-field wall in the fifth inning.
 
Senior Spencer Scorza scored the Big Red's first run in the second inning after popping up a ball down the line in right that fell in between a trio of Quakers defenders, resulting in a double. He then came around to score on sophomore Tommy Wagner's single to left-center.
 
Cornell then doubled its lead in the third. Senior Dan Morris worked a two-out walk, then moved up to second on senior Kevin Tatum's base hit to right. Scorza then lined a single to center, with Morris motoring around third to score.
 
Penn's biggest threat came in the sixth. With two on and two out, and sophomore closer Paul Balestrieri warming in the bullpen, Urbon got a hard groundball that was coralled by Tatum at third, and he beat his runner to the bag to end the threat.
 
Game 2: PENN 9, CORNELL 2 (Box Score)
The Big Red scored twice in the first inning before falling behind. A late rally then came up just short, with the potential tying run being stranded in scoring position in the ninth inning.

Whetsel led off the bottom of the first with a line-drive single into left. He advanced to second on groundout, then scored on a fielding error by the Penn first baseman. Scorza then blistered a double over the right fielder to move Tatum to third to give Cornell two runners in scoring position with one out. Senior Ryan Karl the drove in Tatum for the second run on a grounder to the shortstop.
 
But Penn fought back with a run in the second, then three more — all produced with two outs — in the third inning before stranding the bases loaded. That gave the visitors a two-run lead, and Cornell turned to its bullpen early and unveiled sophomore Peter Lannoo. He pitched well before being struck with a batted ball that both drove in Penn's fifth run and forced him to leave the game.
 
Cornell chipped away at Penn's lead with a run in the sixth to pull within two. Freshman Dale Wickham worked a four-pitch walk, then senior Matt Hall singled up the middle. That set the table for Padulo's single into right-center, which allowed Wickham to score.
 
Meanwhile, Balestrieri was terrific in a rare long-relief assignment after Lannoo's forced premature departure. He surrendered no runs in 4.1 innings while scattering five hits and fanning two. His biggest escape came in the top of the seventh, when Jeff McGeary's double put runners in scoring position with one out. Lefty Matt McKinnon was intentionally walked to load the bases and bring right-handed Tim Graul to the plate. Balestrieri got a swinging strikeout for the second out, then got Gary Tesch to fly out to right to avert trouble.
 
Cornell then caught a break in the bottom of the seventh when Tatum's pop fly down the left-field line dropped in for a double. Four-pitch walks to Scorza and Karl followed to load the bases and ended the day for Penn starter Jake Cousins. Sophomore Tommy Wagner greeted reliever Mitchell Hammonds with a drive to the warning track in left, but Penn left fielder Connor Betbeze made a sliding catch essentially save the game — though each runner moved a base, including Tatum scoring to cut the Big Red deficit to 5-4. Hammonds then got a swinging strikeout to end inning.
 
The home side's last gasp had promise in the ninth. Tatum led off with a single past the diving shortstop. Junior Jordan Winawer emerged as a pinch runner, and freshman Pierre Le Dorze came the plate as a pinch hitter. Hammond's 1-2 off-speed pitch skipped off the turf and away from Penn catch Austin Bossart for a wild pitch, allowing Winawer to move up to second. But Penn was able to get the final three outs without incident, with Hammonds earning his first save of the season.