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Cole Rutherford
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3
Columbia COL 9-19, 3-6 Ivy
9
Winner Cornell COR 10-13, 3-4 Ivy
Columbia COL
9-19, 3-6 Ivy
3
Final
9
Cornell COR
10-13, 3-4 Ivy
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Columbia COL 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 5 1
Cornell COR 0 1 3 0 1 4 X 9 10 2

W: Balestrieri, Paul (2-4) L: Thanopoulos, George (1-5)

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Winner Columbia COL 10-19, 4-6 Ivy
4
Cornell COR 10-14, 3-5 Ivy
Winner
Columbia COL
10-19, 4-6 Ivy
14
Final
4
Cornell COR
10-14, 3-5 Ivy
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Columbia COL 0 6 4 0 1 0 0 0 3 14 14 1
Cornell COR 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 4 12 1

W: Cline, Adam (1-5) L: Willittes, Tim (2-3)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Splits Saturday Twin Bill With Columbia

ITHACA, N.Y. – Junior Cole Rutherford hit his team-leading fifth home run of the season behind a quality start from junior Paul Balestrieri, and the baseball team split Saturday's doubleheader against Columbia by winning the first game, 9-3, before falling in the nightcap, 14-4.
 
The teams will complete the four-game series with another doubleheader starting at noon Sunday at Hoy Field.
 
Game 1: CORNELL 9, COLUMBIA 3 (Box Score)
Rutherford was 2-for-3 with a home run, also adding an RBI single as part of the Big Red's four-run sixth inning to blow the game open. He jumped on a first pitch with one out in the fifth, sending the ball over the bullpen beyond the left field fence and bounding into a parking lot to extend Cornell's lead to 5-2 at the time.
 
Columbia (9-19, 3-6 Ivy) held a pair of one-run leads early in the game before Cornell (10-13, 3-4) took the lead for good with three runs in the third inning. Sophomore Dale Wickham laced a triple into the gap that sailed beyond the diving Columbia center fielder, plating sophomore Ellis Bitar and Rutherford. Freshman Mark Fraser followed with an RBI double to dead center. Wickham finished the game 2-for-4 with three RBIs.
 
Columbia scratched out a run in the sixth, but Balestrieri stranded another runner at third by recording a three-pitch strikeout to retire the side. In earning his second victory of the season, Baltestrieri yielded three runs (two earned) in six innings of work with the one strikeout.
 
Junior Rob Pannullo worked a quiet seventh inning to close the game out.
 
Game 2: COLUMBIA 14, CORNELL 4 (Box Score)
The Big Red struck first with a run in the first inning, but Lions answered emphatically with six runs to chase Cornell's starter in the second, then four more runs in the third to start the rout.
 
Cornell (10-14, 3-5 Ivy) pounded out 12 hits, but never made a dent in the deficit. Adam Cline (10-19, 4-6 Ivy) soldiered through 7.2 innings for Columbia to earn his first win of the season. Bitar had an RBI double, Rutherford was 2-for-4 with an RBI, and Wickham and senior Eliot Lowell each had doubles. Junior Frankie Padulo was 2-for-4 with two runs from the leadoff spot, and Fraser had a pair of hits.
 
Junior Scott Soltis was Cornell's most effective reliever, yielding just one run while eating up 3.2 innings.
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