BUFFALO, N.Y. – Junior Scott Soltis tossed his first collegiate complete game and freshman Mark Fraser hit a two-run double, but the baseball team was swept by Canisius in a non-league doubleheader on Tuesday, 1-0 and 6-4, at Demske Sports Complex.
 
Cornell (13-21) returns to Ivy League play on Friday, when it hosts Princeton for a doubleheader starting at noon at Hoy Field.
 
Game 1: CANISIUS 1, CORNELL 0 (Box Score)
The Golden Griffins pushed across a run in the first inning on a double by Jake Lumley and a two-out RBI single by Liam Wilson, and that was all the offense the game would see. Lumley was 3-for-3.
 
Making just his second collegiate start, Soltis went six innings for the complete game. In the final five innings, Canisius advanced just one runner as far as second base. That came in the sixth, when Soltis got his fourth strikeout of the game to end his day.
 
Cornell, which had three hits against three Canisius pitchers, stranded four of its five runners in scoring position. Junior Cole Rutherford had a double, and freshman Josh Arndt and junior Frankie Padulo had singles.
 
Game 2: CANISIUS 6, CORNELL 4 (Box Score)
The home side took a five-run lead after two innings before the Big Red rebounded with four runs in the fourth.
 
An error allowed sophomore Ellis Bitar to reach second to lead off the inning, then sophomore Dale Wickham was hit by a pitch. Fraser followed with a double to center, plating both runners to make the score 5-2.
 
After a pitching change, Rutherford smacked a base hit to center to score Fraser. A single from Arndt put runners on the corners, then junior C.J. Price plated Rutherford with a fielder's choice.
 
Cornell pushed the tying run to scoring position when Bitar stole second base in the fifth, but he was stranded there and Canisius added an insurance run in the fifth on a squeeze play.