Box Score PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Senior Trey Baur hit a two-run home run in the eighth to break a late deadlock and lead the baseball team to a 4-2 victory over Brown on Sunday, giving the Big Red its third consecutive Ivy League series victory.
 
Junior Will Simoneit led off the eighth with his second single of the day for Cornell (13-20-1, 8-10 Ivy League), setting the table for Baur's first home run of the season. It marked the second time on the weekend that the Big Red scored the go-ahead run in the eighth inning against Brown (11-26, 6-15).
 
Senior Austin Wahl then earned the victory by closing out four innings of scoreless relief. He yielded just one hit, though found some trouble with three walks – the last of which led off the bottom of the ninth to bring the potential winning run to the plate with no outs. But Wahl got a called third strike, then induced a pair of flyouts to stay unscored upon in six Ivy League outings this season.
 
Unlike the first two games of the series, Cornell struck first in the rubber game. Back-to-back walks by seniors Dale Wickham and Ellis Bitar preceded a two-out single by Simoneit to plate Wickham. The Big Red then stranded the bases loaded, then re-loaded them with no out in the second. A sacrifice fly by senior Kyle Gallagher scored freshman Kalani Matton, but the Big Red couldn't tack on further.
 
Brown took advantage in the fourth, tying the game by manufacturing a pair of two-out runs on just a pair of singles thanks to additional help from a walk, a wild pitch, an error and a stolen base. Senior starter Tommy Morris tossed five innings for the Big Red, taking a no-decision by allowing two runs (one earned) on just three hits through five frames.
 
Senior Ryan Krainz was 2-for-5 with a stolen base for the Big Red. Wickham's two walks extended his streak of reaching base safely to 20 consecutive games.
 
Cornell will wrap up its season with a three-game series at home against Columbia. The teams start off with a doubleheader scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Saturday before the finale at 1 p.m. Sunday.