Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Senior Kevin Tatum hit a two-run home run in Game 1, then went 2-for-3 with two more RBIs in the second game to help the baseball team early a split with Harvard on Sunday at O'Donnell Field. The Big Red held on to win the second game, 5-4, after falling in the opener, 14-2.
 
Cornell (8-16, 5-3 Ivy League) is two games off the pace in the Ivy League's Lou Gehrig Division following the completion of interdivision play on Monday, when Columbia plays two makeup games at Brown. Penn is currently 7-1 in league play, which Columbia can match with a sweep of the Bears.
 
The Big Red is scheduled to return home for a non-league game against Binghamton at 4 p.m. Tuesday in advance of its big four-game series vs. Penn next weekend at Hoy Field.
 
Game 1: HARVARD 14, CORNELL 2 (Box Score)
The Crimson plated nine runs in the first two innings to run away with the game early. Cornell managed just four hits in the seven-inning against Harvard starter Sean Poppen, who had seven strikeouts.
 
Senior Dan Morris led off the fourth inning with a single through the right side of the infield. Tatum followed with his first home run of the season. Sophomore Tommy Wagner and junior Jordan Winawer had the Big Red's other two hits.
 
Game 2: CORNELL 5, HARVARD 4 (Box Score)
Senior Kellen Urbon earned his first victory of the season, working six innings while surrendering just an unearned run.
 
The Big Red surged ahead in the fifth inning with freshman Ellis Bitar and Winawer leading off with singles down the left-field line, then sophomore Frankie Padulo plated Bitar with a base hit up the middle. After a walk to senior JD Whetsel loaded the bases, Tatum hit a one-out single through the right side of the infield to score Winawer and Padulo to give the Big Red a 3-0 lead.
 
After the Crimson scored an unearned run in the bottom of the fifth, the Big Red restored its three-run lead in the top of the seventh. Morris and Tatum worked two-out walks, then senior Spencer Scorza scored Morris with a single up the middle.
 
Cornell tacked on a fifth run in the eighth inning on an error that could have ended the visitors' half of the frame — and the run, scored by Wagner, turned out to be the difference in the game. Harvard scored three runs in the bottom of the ninth, then pushed the potential tying run to third on a stolen base with one out.
 
But sophomore closer Paul Balestrieri settled down and induced a groundout, then a game-ending flyout to center to lock down his fourth save of the season.