PRINCETON, N.J. – The baseball team had a pair of two-run leads on Sunday, but Princeton pulled ahead with the eventual winning run in the seventh inning to take the Ivy League-opening series on Sunday with a 7-6 victory at Clarke Field.
 
Princeton (5-11, 2-1 Ivy League) scored six runs in the first four innings before yeoman's work from the Big Red bullpen, which yielded just one run in 4.1 frame – but that one run in the seventh broke the 6-all tie and proved to be the winner.
 
Cornell (4-11, 1-2) struck first in the second. Senior Trey Baur singled and sophomore Kaleb Lepper drew a walk with two outs, then senior Ellis Bitar drove them both in with a double to left and a 2-0 lead.
 
After the Tigers leveled the score in the third, Baur and Lepper once again set the table for the Big Red in the fourth. Baur led off with a double, then Lepper was hit by a pitch. A double steal put them in scoring position, and senior Ryan Krainz sent them plateward with a single to right.
 
Princeton answered with four in the bottom of the frame to take a 6-4 lead, but it could have been worse with sophomore Colby Wyatt stranding two of the three runners he inherited. Cornell wasted no time equalizing again, with juniors Josh Arndt and Will Simoneit scored when Lepper's line drive with two out in the fifth skipped off the left fielder's glove.
 
Sophomore Andrew Ellison then inherited the bases loaded with just one out in the fifth, but he wriggled free of the jam by getting an infield pop-up and a flyout to end the threat. A failed transfer on potential double play led to runners on first and third with one out in the sixth, but Ellison again escaped unscathed.
 
But Princeton eventually broke through in the seventh. A hit-by-pitch and a wild pitch allowed a runner to move up to second with two out, and Chris Davis' single to right-center drove him in for the eventual winning run.
 
Cornell is scheduled to return to action at 1 p.m. Tuesday with a non-league doubleheader at Canisius.