ITHACA, N.Y. — The baseball team has adjusted the start of its series against Yale to be at 3 p.m. Saturday at Hoy Field. The remaining games of the three-game set against the defending Ivy League champion will be adjusted accordingly with start times announced later on.

SERIES INFORMATION
Yale at Cornell
SITE: Hoy Field — Ithaca, N.Y.
RECORDS: Cornell 5-11, 1-2 Ivy; Yale 8-14, 4-2 Ivy
SERIES RECORDS: Yale leads, 104-73
VIDEO: IvyLeagueNetwork.com
STATS: CornellBigRed.com
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Probable starters
Game 1 • 3 p.m. Saturday, April 7
   Cornell (Willittes, RHP, 2-2, 4.60) • Yale (Politz, RHP, 2-2, 3.89)
Game 2 • TBA Sunday, April 8
   Cornell (Urbon, RHP, 0-2, 6.00) • Yale (Nambiar, LHP, 3-0, 4.66)
Game 3 • TBA Sunday, April 8
   Cornell (Fernandez, LHP, 0-2, 9.00) • Yale (Brodkowitz, RHP, 2-2, 2.68)

Cornell game notes (PDF)
Yale game notes

Big Red Rewind:
•   Cornell scored three runs in the 10th inning to storm from behind to defeat Canisius, 6-5, on Wednesday at Hoy Field. Senior Trey Baur hit a one-out double with the bases loaded to drive in the tying and winning runs to give Cornell its first walk-off victory since Canisius' last visit to Ithaca nearly three years ago.
•   Will Simoneit had a career-high three hits and drove in a run in the first inning. Josh Arndt then hit a two-run double in the sixth to give the Big Red a 3-2 lead while also extending his hitting streak to seven games. 
•   Cornell used eight pitchers, including strong two-inning outings from Adam Saks, Owen McMenamy and Jeb Bemiss to start off. Canisius rallied to tie with a run in the ninth, then plated two in the top of the 10th before freshman Nicholas Binnie came on to get a strikeout and ultimately earn the victory.

Eye On The Ivy:
•   Cornell opened its Ivy League season last weekend at Princeton, winning the first game on Saturday, 5-2, before the hosts took the final two of the series, 10-4 and 7-6. Josh Arndt led the team with five hits on the weekend.
•   In the opener, two of Jason Apostle's three hits drove in runs, and Tim Willittes settled down after the Tigers scored twice in the first inning. Cornell batted around in the sixth inning, scoring four times to take the lead for good. 
•   Ellis Bitar hit a three-run triple to give the Big Red a 4-2 lead in Saturday's night cap, but the Tigers scored eight unanswered to split the twin bill. 
•   Both teams' starters struggled and both bullpens strived in Sunday's rubber game. Andrew Ellison inherited the bases loaded with one out in the fifth and got out of the jam to keep the game tied. He worked 3.2 strong innings, but Princeton scratched out a run in the seventh to win.

On Offense:
•   Though the Big Red is batting .220 for the season, it's also trending in the right direction with a respectable .259 average over the last 10 games. Cornell boasts five batters with an average of at least .293 over that stretch.
•   Cornell has scored 42 runs in last seven (6.00 per game) after plating just 21 in its first nine (2.33 per game).
•   Senior Kyle Gallagher continues to pace the offense with a .345 average and an on base percentage of .520, which ranks 11th-highest in the country as of Thursday. He's drawn 20 walks in just 16 games, which gives him the second-highest walks per game ratio nationally (1.25). 
•   The top of the order has started to heat up with senior Ryan Krainz having now reached base in 14 straight games. The 2017 All-Ivy League first team selection now ranks second on the team with a .279 average. 
•   Senior Ellis Bitar, who typically bats one spot behind Krainz in the order, leads the team with 12 runs scored. He also drove in five runs in the Princeton series to move into a tie with senior Dale Wickham for the team lead with 11 RBI.
•   Junior Josh Arndt has a team-best seven-game hitting streak and has moved up to third on the team with a .273. Despite starting just nine of the 16 games to date, he leads the team with five doubles.

On The Mound:
•   Fifth-year senior Tim Willittes (2-2, 4.60) has been stellar since Cornell came back north, posting a 2-0 record, 1.71 ERA and 16 strikeouts over 21 innings in his last three starts. He returns to the rotation after being granted a medical redshirt by the Ivy League after missing the 2015 season.
•   Sophomore Seth Urbon (0-2, 6.00) has entered the rotation in his first year with the Big Red after transferring from Georgia Tech. The younger brother of former Cornell standout Kellon Urbon '15, he has 16 strikeouts over his last three starts. 
•   Though a senior, Tyler Fernandez (0-2, 9.00) is making his collegiate debut this year. He missed the last three years rehabilitating injuries.
•   Sophomores Colby Wyatt (0-1, 3.95, 2 SV) and Andrew Ellison (1-2, 3.27) have emerged as two of the team's top bullpen arms. Wyatt has 19 strikeouts in just 13.2 innings and earned two saves in the last two weeks. Ellison has yielded just one extra-base hit in 11 innings over five appearances.

Making History:
•   Varsity baseball at Cornell started in 1869, so program firsts are few and far between two centuries later — but seniors Dale Wickham and Trey Baur have provided a couple over the last two years.
•   On May 1, 2016, Wickham became the first Big Red player to hit three home runs in a game. To make the feat even more impressive, he did it in his only three at-bats of a seven-inning game to open a doubleheader at Princeton.
•   On April 5, 2017, Baur was at the forefront of Cornell's 27-14 lambasting of Towson. He was 6-for-7 with two doubles and a home run, becoming the first player in program history with six hits in a single game.

Gridiron Gang:
•   Cornell has two players on its roster who have also played for the football team in senior outfielder Kyle Gallagher and senior pitcher Austin Wahl.
•   Gallagher became an everyday outfielder for the Big Red last season after playing five games at quarterback with the football team as a freshman. Wahl was a safety on the scout team in 2013, then walked on to the baseball team and made eight appearances in 2016.

About Yale:
•   The defending Ivy League champs have won four straight, including a three-game Ivy sweep of Brown last weekend before rallying for five unanswered runs and a 6-5 win over Fairfield on Wednesday. Alex Stiegler hit the go-ahead three-run homer in the seventh.
•   The Bulldogs are batting .248 as a team, led by Tim DeGraw's average of .318. Junior Simon Whiteman is batting .283 with a team-best 18 RBI. Junior Griffin Dey bats .286 with a team-high five home runs after hitting 10 last year, and he also serves as late-inning sidearming relief option (0-3, 4.91, SV).
•   Yale's pitching remains largely intact, led by 2017 Ivy League Pitcher of the Year Scott Politz (2-2, 3.89, CG). He had 11 Ks in a complete-game shutout of Brown last Saturday.
•   Junior lefty Kumar Nambiar (3-0, 4.66) has a team-high 41 strikeouts in 36.2 innings. Eric Brodkowitz (2-2, 2.68) has the best ERA.

Series History vs. Yale:
•   Yale holds a 104-73 lead in the all-time series after the teams split last season's doubleheader at Hoy Field. The teams have split their last 14 meetings, 7-7.
•   Scott Politz tossed a seven-inning complete game for the 7-2 win in last year's first game, then Ryan Krainz was 2-for-3 with two stolen bases and two RBI in Cornell's 6-4 win in the night cap. Five of the Big Red runs came in the first five innings.
•   The first meeting between the teams came in 1887.

Up Next:
•   Cornell continues its eight-game home stand with a non-league game at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday against regional rival Binghamton.