ITHACA, N.Y. – Senior Dale Wickham was 2-for-5 with a three-run double and a solo home run for four RBI, and senior Ellis Bitar was 3-for-5 with a double and a run-scoring single to tie the game in the seventh inning, but Yale scratched out an unearned run in unusual fashion in the 10th inning to escape with an 8-7 victory on a bizarre Sunday at Hoy Field.
 
The middle game of the Ivy League series was supposed to be the first of two contests, but two snow delays totaling 64 minutes plus an extra inning forced the teams to postpone the final game of the set until 1 p.m. Monday.
 
Yale's winning run reached base on a called third strike and passed ball to lead off the 10th. The Bulldogs laid down a sacrifice bunt, but ended up with runners on second and third and no out after the third baseman's throw to first went awry.
 
That brought the infield in, and sophomore reliever Andrew Ellison induced an innocuous grounder to second base for the first out. He then got a swinging strikeout from Yale's Cal Christofori for the second out – but it also it also managed to drive in the winning run. The pitch hit the turf, and Christofori scampered out of the batter's box before the catcher could take him. The catcher then made a long look toward third to freeze baserunner Harry Hegeman, then fired the ball to first to complete the putout. But Hegeman still broke for home, and the return throw to the plate was in time – only to have the ball skip away and allow Hegeman to slide in safely.
 
Both teams had three-run doubles in the third inning. The first came from Yale (10-14, 6-2 Ivy) off the bat of Benny Wanger, then Cornell (5-13, 1-4 Ivy League) responded in the bottom half of the frame via Wickham. Bitar followed with a base hit, then they both scored on a two-run double by senior Will Simoneit to give Cornell a 5-3 lead just before the day's second weather delay.
 
Sophomore starter Seth Urbon did well to battle through the interruptions to give the Big Red five innings. Even though the Bulldogs plated two more in the top of the fifth on a bloop single over third base, Urbon was in line for the win after Wickham's impressive home run gave Cornell a 6-5 lead after five.
 
Wanger's RBI double tied the game against in the seventh, then he scored the go-ahead run on a single to left from Harry Hegeman. But the Big Red battled back again with Bitar driving in senior Ryan Krainz with a two-out single in the seventh.
 
Cornell left the bases loaded in the eighth, then Yale threatened in the ninth on a wind-aided pop-up infield single and hit-by-pitch before sophomore reliever Andrew Ellison induced a pair of strikeouts to escape the jam before Yale's eventual winner in the 10th.
 
For the Big Red, junior Josh Arndt hit a triple in the second inning to extend his hitting streak to nine games – which is tied with Krainz for the team's longest this season. Krainz also reached base for a 16th consecutive game. Simoneit had two more hits, giving him eight over just the last three games.