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ITHACA, N.Y. — Senior Kevin Tatum was 2-for-4 with an RBI double, but Binghamton used a five-run eighth inning to break a deadlock en route to a 7-3 victory in a non-league baseball game on Tuesday afternoon at Hoy Field.

Cornell (8-17) took a two-run lead in the third inning with senior Dan Morris plated Frankie Padulo with a triple to straight-away center, then Tatum brought Morris home with a double down the line in right. Tatum now has hits in 19 of his last 21 games, raising his team-high batting average to .341.

The Big Red got two solid innings from senior starter Nick Busto, then senior Roberto Suppa worked three innings in relief while fanning five. Binghamton (7-12) used three singles in the fourth inning to cut its deficit to one run, but Suppa induced two swinging strikeouts to strand two runners in scoring position. The Bearcats then tied the game in the fifth on an unearned run, aided by a failed pickoff throw that bounced past first base and to the fence in foul territory.

The game remained tied until the eighth, when the Bearcats sent 10 men to the plate and took advantage of a couple Big Red defensive miscues — even if only one error was recorded in the stanza. A perfectly placed pinch-hit bunt single led off the inning, followed by a sacrifice bunt and an RBI double down the line in left to give Binghamton the lead. Jake Thomas then hit a ball through the left side of the infield in the next at-bat, plating the second run in the frame while Thomas legged out a double. Junior Ryne Veenema recorded the last four outs in his second collegiate appearance out of the bullpen.

The Big Red cut into its deficit in the bottom of the ninth. Freshman Pierre Le Dorze, who entered mid-game in left field, hit a one-out single and came around to score on junior Eliot Lowell's two-out single to right-center.

Cornell returns to Ivy League play this weekend with a big four-game series against Penn. The Lou Gehrig Division set will be played in the form of two doubleheaders at noon Saturday and Sunday at Hoy Field.