VESTAL, N.Y. – The baseball team's offense continued to roll on Tuesday night, plating seven runs in the first two innings en route to a 12-3 victory over Binghamton in a non-league game at the Bearcats' Baseball Complex.
 
Junior Will Simoneit was a 3-for-4 with his first home run of the season, a two-run shot in the second inning. That pushed the Big Red's lead to 7-0 after a four-run first inning highlighted by a two-run single from freshman Kaleb Lepper.
 
Senior Ellis Bitar was 3-for-4 with a double, driving in three runs. Binghamton (10-23-1) had cut its deficit to 7-3 by the middle of the game before Bitar's RBI single in the seventh for Cornell (9-17-1). Simoneit then drew an RBI walk, and junior Josh Arndt followed with a run-scoring single to restore the Big Red's seven-run lead.
 
Five of Cornell's six pitchers had scoreless outings. Junior Adam Saks worked a hitless two frames in his second start of the season, earning the victory. Junior Austin Arnold retired the final two batters of the eighth in his season debut, and freshman Trevor Daniel Davis finished the game with a quiet ninth in just his second appearance.
 
Cornell returns to Ivy League play this weekend, when it hosts a three-game set against Harvard at Hoy Field. The series begins with a doubleheader scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Saturday, followed by the finale at 1 p.m. Sunday.