BRONX, N.Y. – Freshman Jason Apostle hit his first collegiate home run and senior Kyle Gallagher continued his hot start by driving in the go-ahead run in the nightcap to give the baseball team a split of extra-inning games in Saturday's doubleheader at Fordham.

Cornell (1-7) fell in the opener, 4-3, before rallying to the win the second game by the same score at Houlihan Park. Both games went 10 innings.

Gallagher was 3-for-5 with a gaudy six walks on the day, raising his batting average to .385 through eight games. The Big Red also quality starts in both games against Fordham (9-6-1).

Game 1: FORDHAM 4, CORNELL 3 (10 innings)
Senior Trey Baur was 3-for-4 with a double, and he scored a run on Apostle's home run to right field on an 0-2 count in the fourth inning. The blast gave the Big Red a 3-2 lead after the Rams plated an unearned run in both the second and third innings.

Once armed with the lead, senior Tim Willittes set the Rams down 1-2-3 in the fifth, sixth and seventh inninngs. Back-to-back singles to start the eighth led to his removal, then a bunt single loaded the bases with no out. While a fielder's choice drove in the tying run, freshman Colby Wyatt minimized the damage by stranding the two remaining runners in scoring position after a swinging strikeout and a flyout.

The tightrope walk continued in the ninth, with the Rams stranding the bases loaded after Wyatt got a called third strike to keep the game going. But Fordham eventually pushed home the winner in the 10th after a leadoff walk and stolen base set the ball in motion for a small-ball run.

Game 2: CORNELL 4, FORDHAM 3 (10 innings)
The Big Red rallied to tie the score with a run with two outs in the ninth to force the extra frame, then won it in the 10th despite leaving 17 runners on base. Sophomore Andrew Ellison earned the victory with 3.2 innings of scoreless relief, yielding just one walk and a couple hits while fanning two.

Fordham entered the game with 48 stolen bases on 59 attempts, but Cornell gunned down would-be thieves three times in the game. The first two were from Simoneit, and the last was after senior Ellis Bitar moved to catcher and erased a leadoff single in the bottom of the 10th on an attempted steal of second.

Senior Ryan Krainz was 3-for-6 with a double to lead off the game. He moved up to third on a flyout, then scored with junior Will Simoneit's infield single to give the Big Red its first first-inning run of the season.

The Rams answered by having its leadoff hitter score runs in both the first and second innings, but Cornell manufactured a run in the fifth to tie the game at 2. Sophomore Kaleb Lepper reached on a bunt single, then stole second and eventually scored on a base hit by freshman Kalani Matton.

Sophomore starter Seth Urbon worked into the seventh inning with seven strikeouts, with the third and final run he surrendered coming in the sixth to restore the home side's one-run lead.

Cornell clawed back in the ninth. Senior Dale Wickham's pinch-hit infield single loaded the bases with two out, then Apostle drew a clutch RBI walk on a full count to tie the game at 3. In the 10th, Bitar worked a one-out walk, moved up to second on a passed ball, then came around to score on a base hit to left by Gallagher.