HAMILTON, N.Y. -- The Cornell softball team scored three runs in the first inning and Maddie Orcutt made the early lead stand up as the Big Red topped Central New York rival Colgate 6-3 on Tuesday afternoon at Eaton Street Field. The Big Red improved to 9-28, while the Raiders slipped to 8-26.

Orcutt hurled a complete game to pick up her fourth win of the year, striking out a season-high nine batters and scattering eight hits while allowing just one earned run. She stranded 10 Colgate baserunners in the contest, including the bases loaded in the first and two runners in the third, fourth and seventh innings.

Leanne Iannucci's RBI groundout and Megan Murray's two-run double got Cornell started in the first and the Raiders never recovered. After the home team got back within 3-2 in the third, Cornell added two runs in the fourth and another in the fifth and held off a final inning rally to improve to 3-2 in its last five non-conference contests.

Emily Weinberg, Meg Parker and Megan Murray each had a pair of hits, with Murray driving in half of Cornell's runs. Olivia May also drove in two and Iannucci had one RBI. Both Parker and Rebecca Kubena scored twice apiece. Cornell batters drew seven walks in the win.

After Colgate got back within a run, Cornell answered with a two-out, two-run double by May to extend the lead back to 5-2. The Raiders scratched together a run in the bottom half of the inning, but the Big Red against used some two-out magic when Murray singled in Parker, who led off the fifth with her 40th career double, to tack on the final run.

Cornell will celebrate its four seniors - Iannucci, Parker, Weinberg and Taylor Goodin - when Princeton visits Niemand*Robison Field on Saturday, April 30 at 12:30 p.m.