DURHAM, N.C. – Duke scored seven unearned runs and got a perfect game from pitcher Bryce Jarvis to hand the Cornell baseball team an 8-0 loss in its season debut on Friday at Durham Bulls Athletic Park.
 
Jarvis fanned 15 with no walks, needing 94 pitches to retire 27 straight batters from Cornell (0-1).
 
Senior starter Colby Wyatt was solid for the Big Red, pitching into the fifth inning with three strikeouts. He yielded just an infield hit and hit-by-pitch in his first three innings of work before finding a little trouble in the fourth. An error loaded the bases with no outs. After a sacrifice fly scored the first run, a triple plated two more.
 
Sophomore reliever Jonathan Zacharias came on with two runners on base in the fifth and induced an infield pop-up that would have been the third out, if not for Cornell's second error of the day. Duke went on to plate five in the inning – all unearned – to extend the lead to 8-0.
 
Zacharias recorded four outs with only the three unearned runs against. Sophomore Niko Lillios then worked two scoreless innings.
 
Jarvis took care of the rest against a Cornell lineup that featured five freshmen making their collegiate debuts.
 
The teams are scheduled to meet for the middle game of the series at 1 p.m. Saturday back at DBAP.