COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Junior Joe Hollerbach continued his offensive assault and junior Ryan Ross hit a grand slam, but the Cornell baseball team dropped a pair of games Sunday at Bob "Turtle" Smith Stadium. The Big Red opened the day with a 9-8 loss to Georgetown in 10 innings, followed by a 12-5 setback against 24th-ranked Maryland.
 
GAME 1: Georgetown 9, Cornell 8 (10 innings)
Just two games removed from hitting for the cycle, Hollerbach hit for extra bases three times with a pair of doubles and his third home run of the young season.
 
Cornell rallied for five runs in the top of the ninth to take the lead, but the Hoyas got a leadoff home run in the bottom of the inning to force a 10th inning in which it plated the winner in the Big Red's first foray into the new rule where a runner is placed on second base to start any extra frames.
 
Sophomore Nathan Waugh got the Big Red's ninth-inning rally started with one out when he hit a two-run homer to left. Freshman Kyle Porter kept the Big Red's hopes alive with a two-out triple, then he scored on freshman Kyle Musser's single to right. Junior Elijah Diaz followed with a walk to put the go-ahead run on base, setting the table for Hollerbach's two-run double to left for a 8-7 Big Red lead.
 
Hollerbach's first at-bat resulted in a solo shot to get Cornell on the board in the first inning. The Hoyas were a little more careful with Hollerbach in his second trip to the plate, issuing a four-pitch to load the bases with two out. Senior Austin Flematti followed that with a two-run single to extend the Big Red's advantage to 3-0.
 
Georgetown chipped away at its deficit with a solo homer in the third and a manufactured run in the fourth. Senior starting pitcher Luke Yacinich then got a pair of strikeouts to strand the tying run at third in the fifth and worked a 1-2-3 sixth before the Hoyas stormed ahead with five runs in the seventh.
 
GAME 2: #24 Maryland 12, Cornell 5
The Terrapins used an eight-run fourth inning to blow the game open while Ryan Ramsey limited the Big Red to one hit while fanning 13 in six shutout innings.
 
Cornell did its damage against the bullpen, starting with freshman Jakobi Davis' sacrifice fly to score Diaz in the seventh. But Ross delivered the big blast in the eighth inning, hitting Cornell's first grand slam since Kalani Matton on May 5, 2018 at Brown.
 
Sophomore Von Baker was the Big Red's most effective pitcher in the game, striking out three while working around a pair of hits in 2.2 shutout innings.
 
Hollerbach delivered a single earlier in the inning for his 15th hit over his active six-game hitting streak.