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Will Simoneit is greeted at third base by associate head coach Tom Ford after his home run during the Cornell baseball team's game against St. Bonaventure on May 7, 2019 at Fred Handler Park in Olean, N.Y. (Becky Polaski)
Becky Polaski
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Cornell COR 14-24
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Winner St. Bonaventure SBU 13-26
Cornell COR
14-24
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Final
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St. Bonaventure SBU
13-26
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E
Cornell COR 0 2 1 0 2 0 1 2 0 0 8 9 3
St. Bonaventure SBU 0 0 0 1 4 1 0 2 0 1 9 13 0

W: Moffat (4-3) L: Natoli, John (5-2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball's Season Ends With 10-Inning Loss at St. Bonaventure

OLEAN, N.Y. – Senior Will Simoneit hit his team-leading sixth home run amid his 3-for-5 performance on Tuesday, but St. Bonaventure rallied for two runs in the eighth inning before scoring the winning run of a 9-8 affair in the 10th inning at Fred Handler Park.
 
St. Bonaventure (13-26) scored the winning run with one out. Back-to-back singles from Tyler Kelder and Matthew Williams put runners on the corners, then a ground ball allowed the Kelder to cross the plate with the winner.
 
The first two Cornell (14-24) runs came home on wild pitches in the second inning, then Simoneit led off the third with his fourth home run in the last eight games. The home run also extended Simoneit's hitting streak to 11 games, with 18 hits and 13 RBIs over that span.
 
Picking up where he left off Saturday against Dartmouth, freshman starter Jonathan Zacharias was dominant in his two innings of work as Tuesday's opener. The Bonnies got on the board in the fourth inning, but the Big Red came back with two more in the fifth. Pinch-hitting junior Anthony Charles popped a base hit to right-center for his first collegiate RBI, then junior Alex Carnegie drove in the next run with a fielder's choice with the bases loaded.
 
St. Bonaventure struck big in the fifth inning, spurred by Sam Fuller's run-scoring triple. The fourth run of the frame came home on the first of Cornell's three errors on the day, tying the score at 5. The Bonnies briefly took the lead in the sixth, but Charles' second RBI came on a sacrifice fly in the seventh to make it 6-6.
 
Three consecutive one-out walks loaded the bases for Cornell in the eighth. After the Bonnies secured the second out of the inning, Simoneit hit a two-run single through the left side of the infield. St. Bonaventure again tied it with the help of an unearned run – this one following a bases-loaded walk. That set the stage for the Bonnies' heroics in the 10th inning, which led to the Big Red's only extra-inning loss of the season.
 
Senior Adam Saks was 1-for-3 with three walks for Cornell, running his streak of consecutive games reaching base safely to 26 – covering every game he started. Sophomore Jason Apostle had his third straight multi-hit game, going 2-for-4 with a walk and a run scored.
 
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