VESTAL, N.Y. – Sophomore Kaleb Lepper hit a triple and scored on a sacrifice fly from senior Ryan Krainz, but the baseball team conceded the final 10 runs on Wednesday night in an 11-1 loss to Binghamton at the Bearcats' Baseball Complex. It's the first mid-week loss of the season for Cornell (11-19-1).
 
Binghamton (13-25-1) struck first with Andrew Eng's solo home run in the second inning, but Cornell answered with Lepper's run in the third. The Bearcats took the lead back with three runs in the fourth, then blew the game open with six more in the fifth.
 
The Big Red mustered just four hits on the day. Junior Will Simoneit saw his 10-game hitting streak come to a close, and senior Ellis Bitar failed to reach base for the first time in 26 games – the program's longest such streak since 2009 (Nathan Ford, 40 games).
 
Cornell deployed seven pitchers, with particularly strong efforts coming from the final two. Senior Austin Wahl got four outs for his ninth consecutive scoreless relief outing, and junior Austin Arnold worked the final two innings while yielding just an unearned run.
 
Cornell returns to Ivy League play this weekend, hitting the road for a three-game set against Brown. The series begins with a doubleheader scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Saturday, followed by the finale at 1 p.m. Sunday.