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LEWISBURG, Pa. – The reigning Ivy League Pitcher of the Week delivered quite an encore Saturday. With the baseball team in need of a long start in the night cap of a doubleheader, junior Tim Willittes went eight strong scoreless innings to buoy the Big Red to a 5-2 victory over Bucknell at Depew Field. The Bison won the opener, 12-3.
 
Surrendering just three hits, Willittes struck out 13 batters — by far a career high and the most by a Big Red pitcher since Chris Schutt fanned 15 against Columbia on April 19, 2003. Schutt struck out 10 or more batters six times that season.
 
Cornell will look to win its third of the four-game set in the finale at noon Sunday.
 
Game 1: BUCKNELL 12, CORNELL 3 (Box Score)
The Bison drew six walks as part of a 10-run third inning. Junior Jamie Smith was the fifth Big Red pitcher to appear in the frame, making his collegiate pitching debut. He worked 3 1/3 scoreless innings with four strikeouts.
 
Freshman Josh Arndt's base hit into left-center scored junior C.J. Price for Big Red's first run in the fifth inning. That gave Arndt four RBIs over the last two games.
 
Cornell was able to push two more runs across in the seventh. Smith actually scored the first after entering the batting order in place of the designated hitter and working a leadoff walk. Senior Eliot Lowell also walked, and a balk moved them both into scoring position. Junior Frankie Padulo's groundout to short drove in Smith and moved Lowell to third, then junior Tommy Wagner's infield single allowed Lowell to come home. Wagner finished the game 2-for-4.
 
Game 2: CORNELL 5, BUCKNELL 2 (Box Score)
The Big Red scratched out runs in the first, fifth and sixth innings behind Willittes' masterpiece. Senior Jordan Winawer drew a two-out walk in the first and eventually scored after consecutive singles by junior Cole Rutherford and sophomore Dale Wickham.
 
Padulo led off the fifth with a double, then came around to score on Rutherford's triple to right. Lowell plated Price for the third run in the sixth.
 
Meanwhile, Willittes was in control. He worked around a one-out triple in the second by retiring the next 13 batters. He stranded a pair of runners in the sixth with one of his five called third strikes, then struck out the side after a a leadoff walk in the seventh.
 
Cornell tacked on a pair of unearned runs in the top of the ninth, and freshman Adam Saks worked the ninth and induced a game-ending popout with the potential tying run on deck.