ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell blasted four home runs, all by freshmen, and snapped Ithaca's 12-game win streak in a doubleheader split with the 14th-ranked Division III Bombers on Tuesday evening at Kostrinsky Field. Ithaca won the opener 3-2, but Cornell turned the tide in the nightcap, 6-3. The Big Red moved to 8-31, while IC is now 22-6-1.

Game 1 I #14 Ithaca 3, Cornell 2
Freshman Allison Kerce and Emily McKinney hit back-to-back homers in the fourth to give Cornell the lead, but a pair of unearned runs allowed No. 14 Ithaca College to hold off the Big Red 3-2 in game one of a doubleheader on Tuesday afternoon at Kostrinsky Field. The Bombers won their 12th straight to improve to 22-5-1, while the Big Red fell to 7-31.

Cornell and Ithaca each had five hits on the afternoon, but the Bombers took advantage of a pair of Big Red errors to keep its win streak intact. Emily Holden held Cornell at bay over a perfect final 3.2 innings of work, striking out two in improving to 7-2 on the season.

The Big Red got solid efforts in the circle from Ashley Delany (4.0 innings, four hits, one earned run) and Lisa Nelson (2.0 innings, one hit, no earned runs), with Nelson taking the hard-luck loss despite allowing just two baserunners and one unearned run in the final two innings.

The Bombers scratched together a score in the first thanks to a hit batsman, an error and a sacrifice fly to put over an unearned run to take the lead. 

The Big Red tied it in the fourth when Kerce led off the inning with a bomb to left, her team-best seventh of the season, to knot the score at 1-1. Five pitches later, McKinney hit a deep shot to right-center that went off the rightfielder's glove and trickled over the wall to make it 2-1. The homer was her fourth of the year and the 24th of the season as a team. After putting two more runners on base, Holden entered the game in relief and shut down Cornell's bats. In the meantime, the Bombers scored single runs in the fourth and fifth to claim the victory.

A bases loaded fielder's choice in the fourth tied the game, with the go-ahead run scoring in the fifth on a walk, an error that extended the inning and a single into center that barely escaped a diving Kerce at second base. Cornell never threatened to tie the game.

Game 2 I Cornell 6, #14 Ithaca 3
Freshman Ashley Delany picked up the win in the circle and slammed her first career home run as the go-ahead shot in the fourth en route to a 6-3 victory in the nightcap. 

Delany was 2-for-4 with a pair of RBI at the plate and hurled four shutout innings, scattering a pair of hits and striking our four in claim her fourth win of the season.

Delany's classmate Hanna Crist had a pair of doubles and three RBI in the win. Miranda Lawson hit a leadoff home run in the first to get Cornell on the right track, and after Ithaca went ahead 3-1 thanks to single runs in each of the first three innings. 

Crist doubled in a run to get the Big Red within 3-2, then Delany slammed a two-run homer for her first career round-tripper to put the visitors ahead for good. The Big Red plated two insurance runs in the fifth on a two-run double by Crist, and Delany did the rest in the circle. She allowed the tying run to get to the plate in the sixth, but stranded two runners there, then retired the side in the seventh to close out the victory.

Cornell will close out its home schedule with a three-game set against Princeton starting with a doubleheader on Saturday, April 27 at 12:30 p.m., then will honor senior Olivia Lam on Sunday, April 28 at 12:30 p.m. at Niemand-Robison Field.