ITHACA, N.Y. —  The baseball team will play its final non-league game of the season when it travels to Vestal for its third game of the season against Binghamton, and the second in just nine days at the Bearcats' Baseball Complex.

GAME INFORMATION
Binghamton at Cornell
6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 2
SITE: Baseball Complex — Vestal, N.Y.
RECORDS: Cornell 11-18-1, Binghamton 12-25-1
SERIES RECORDS: Cornell leads, 23-15-1
VIDEO: www.BUbearcats.com
STATS: www.BUbearcats.com
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Probable starters
Cornell (RHP Adam Saks, 1-0, 4.85)  •   Binghamton (RHP Ben Anderson, 0-2, 1.93)

Cornell game notes (PDF)

The Big Red, In Brief:
•   Cornell is in the midst of a resurgent stretch, having won two straight Ivy League series and five of its last seven games overall.
•   Cornell fell behind by four runs in each of Saturday's games against Harvard, but rallied each time to take the first two games of the series, 10-8 and 7-4. The visiting Crimson avoided being swept by staving off the Big Red for a 6-2 win on Sunday.
•   The Big Red offense has warmed up, scoring 138 runs in its last 21 (6.57 per game) after plating just 21 runs in its first nine (2.33 per game). There are four different batters that enter the game vs. Binghamton with at least 16 hits in the last 10 games.
•   Entering Wednesday's games around the country, Cornell is up to 226th in the Ratings Percentage Index — which is fourth-highest among the eight teams in the Ivy League.

Harvard Series Redux:
•   Against the Ivy League leader in victories, ERA and strikeouts, the Big Red took advantage of four Harvard errors to rally and win the opener on Saturday morning. Jason Apostle drove in three runs and Ellis Bitar hit a key two-run double in a four-run sixth inning that put the Big Red ahead for good. Austin Wahl earned the victory in relief, and Andrew Ellison worked a scoreless ninth for his second save.
•   The Crimson jumped ahead in the afternoon game of the doubleheader, but Big Red starter Seth Urbon settled in for five scoreless frames to cap his seven-inning start. Cornell put him on the long side thanks to seven unanswered runs, with Ryan Krainz lacing an RBI triple in the fourth before scoring the go-ahead run on Kyle Gallagher's double. Jeb Bemiss worked two scoreless innings for his first save.
•   In Sunday's series finale, Pierre Le Dorze broke up Harvard's no-hit bid with an infield single in the sixth inning, then Cornell staged a rally in the seventh. Krainz hit a double down the line, then scored on Gallagher's gapper. Bitar's single plated Gallagher to cut the Big Red's deficit to 3-2, then a double from junior Will Simoneit and walk to junior Josh Arndt loaded the bases before an inning-ending strikeout. The Crimson tacked on three runs in the final two frames to hold on and avoid the sweep.

On Offense:
•   The Big Red is now batting .247 as a team, but it's posted a .291 average over the last 10 games with four players batting better than .350 over that stretch.
•   Senior Ellis Bitar has taken over the team lead with a .304 average and 28 RBI, having now reached base in 26 consecutive games. That is the program's longest such streak since Nathan Ford did so in all 40 games of the 2009 season.
•   Senior Dale Wickham is now batting .299 overall after posting a .486 average with four home runs, 12 RBI and 1.473 OPS over the last 10 games alone. The team's primary designated hitter, Wickham was last week's Ivy League Player of the Week.
•   Junior Will Simoneit is on his 10-game hitting streak, now batting .298. He's tied with senior lead-off man Ryan Krainz for the team lead with seven stolen bases. With a hit against Binghamton, Simoneit would match the team's longest hitting streak of the season (Josh Arndt, 11 games, March 18 to April 10).
•   Senior Kyle Gallagher — a graduate of nearby Maine-Endwell HS — bats .288 with a team-high nine doubles and a .444 on base percentage, which ranks second on the team but fourth in the Ivy League. He's drawn 31 walks in just 30 games, which gives him the third-highest walks per game rate nationally (1.03).
•   The team's traditional lead-off hitter, Krainz has reached base safely in 28 of Cornell's 30 games. A selection to the All-Ivy League first team last year, Krainz has 16 hits in his last 10 games to raise his average to .289 entering the game at Binghamton.

On The Mound:
•   Seniors Tim Willittes and Tommy Morris, and sophomore Seth Urbon started games in the Penn series, thus they will not appear in the game at Binghamton. 
•   As he did last Tuesday, junior Adam Saks (1-0, 4.85) is scheduled to start against the Bearcats. In his only other two starts this season, Saks has tossed four scoreless innings.
•   Sophomore Colby Wyatt (0-1, 4.03, 2 SV) leads the team with 17 relief appearances. He ranks third on the team with 26 strikeouts despite working just 22.1 innings.
•   Sophomore Andrew Ellison (2-3, 2.25, 2 SV) has yielded just four extra-base hits in 22.1 innings over 13 appearances. He has stranded all 10 of the 11 runners he's inherited with the opposition batting just .122 against him with runners on base.
•   Senior Austin Wahl (1-0, 4.09) didn't surrender any runs in April, having now worked eight consecutive appearances with conceding anything besides two hits and four walks. 

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. He returned to the team this year and has made 12 appearances so far.

About Binghamton:
•   The Bearcats defeated St. Bonaventure on Tuesday, 4-3, to improve to 12-25-1. It was the team's third win over the last 13 games. After being held to one run in the first two games of last weekend's series with Stony Brook, BU won the series finale, 8-5.
•   Binghamton is batting .239, led by Luke Tevlin's ascent to .311. Anthony Meduri ranks second at .301, and Jason Agresti bats .273 with a team-high 12 doubles and 22 walks against. His 20 RBI is tied for the league with Paul Rufo, who joins Pat Britt and C.J. Krowiak with a team-high three home runs. Krowiak's seven stolen bases lead the team.
•   Nick Wegmann, Nick Gallagher and Jacob Wloczewski are Binghamton's weekend starters, thus they are unlikely to pitch much, if at all, against Cornell.   
•   One of the team's top relievers, right-hander Ben Anderson (0-2, 1.93) is scheduled to make his first start of the season against the Big Red. 

Series History vs. Binghamton: 
•   Cornell holds a 23-15-1 lead in the all-time series after a 12-3 victory on April 24, the Big Red's third straight victory at the Bearcats' Baseball Complex. Will Simoneit was 3-for-4 with a home run and four RBI, as Cornell scored seven runs in the first two frames.
•   A bizarre 5-5 tie was the result of the teams' first meeting this season April 10 at Hoy Field. Andrew Ellison stranded a whopping eight runners in just 2.1 innings of work, including leaving the bases loaded in the top of the 10th. The umpires then called the game due to darkness.
•   In two career games at the Bearcats' Baseball Complex, Ellis Bitar is 6-for-9 with six runs scored, two doubles, a grand slam and eight RBI.

Up Next: 
•   Cornell hits the road for a three-game Ivy League series this weekend at Brown. The set starts with a doubleheader Saturday before a single game Sunday.