ITHACA, N.Y. – Senior Will Simoneit was 3-for-3 with two stolen bases and a walk, but the Cornell baseball team again struggled to capitalize with runners on base in a 7-3 loss to Brown on Sunday at Hoy Field.
 
The formula for Brown (8-17, 5-4 Ivy League) was the same in the series finale as it was in Saturday's first game of a twin bill: Post a crooked number to take an early lead, pitch effectively out of the stretch, and stave off a late rally from Cornell (7-16, 2-7). The Big Red was 17-for-50 (.340) with the bases empty over the three-game series against just 8-for-50 (.160) with runners on.
 
A dropped fly ball with two out in the second inning led to three unearned runs for the Bears. The next batter was Rich Ciufo, whose single drove in Garett Delano from second. Then Mark Sluys blasted a home run inside the foul pole in left field to make it a 3-0 game.
 
The Bears then plated four more runs in the fifth before Cornell's bullpen shut the door. Relievers Jeb Bemiss and John Natoli combined for 4.2 innings of work with six strikeouts and just one run.
 
That allowed the Big Red to mount a late charge. Consecutive singles to lead off the home half of the seventh from freshman Justin Taylor, sophomore Nicholas Binnie and junior Alex Carnegie plated the first run. Senior Adam Saks then hit grounder to first for the second out, but it drove in Binnie for Cornell's second run.
 
Simoneit scored the third run in the eighth after leading off with a walk, stealing second, advancing to third on a groundout and coming home on a wild pitch.
 
Cornell returns to Hoy Field for a non-league game against Binghamton at 3 p.m. Tuesday.