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The Cornell Big Red baseball team competes against Yale on Saturday, April 2, 2022 on Hoy Field in Ithaca, NY.
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11
Winner Cornell COR 6-12
10
Canisius CAN 11-14
Winner
Cornell COR
6-12
11
Final
10
Canisius CAN
11-14
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Cornell COR 3 0 0 1 0 2 0 4 1 11 13 1
Canisius CAN 1 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 9 1

W: Gilbert, William (1-1) L: Abbott (0-3) S: Mack, Braden (1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Rallies From Seven-Run Deficit To Top Canisius, 11-10

ITHACA, N.Y. -- For the second time in four days, the Cornell baseball team rallied from a big deficit to earn a win. This time, staring at a 10-3 line score after three innings, the Big Red bullpen and a resurgent Cornell (6-12) offense powered past Canisius 11-10 on Tuesday afternoon at Demske Sports Complex. 

Nathan Waugh was 3-for-5 with a triple and two runs scored and Sam Kaplan was 3-for-4 with a double, a home run, three RBI and two runs scored to lead the offense, but it was Jason Apostle who drew a bases loaded walk in the ninth to push the Big Red past the Golden Griffins.

The final three pitchers out of the bullpen gave Cornell 6.0 innings of one-hit ball, allowing just one walk. Chris Ellison didn't factor into the decision, but he shouldered the biggest load, surrendering just one hit and striking out five over 4.1 innings as the Big Red rallied. William Gilbert picked the ball up from Ellison, getting two outs to earn the win, while Braden Mack gained the save by holding Canisius at bay in the ninth, working around a walk.

Cornell scored three in the first , but Canisius plated one in the bottom half of the inning, five in the second and four more in the third to take a sizable 10-3 edge. It was still 10-6 after six, the gap narrowed on a Kaplan RBI double in the fourth and a two-run homer in the sixth, but it was the eighth inning rally that got the Big Red back in it.

Cornell tied the game after a two-run ground-rule double by Matt Barnhorst and a two-run single by Joe Hollerbach, setting up the game-winning ninth-inning rally. Waugh singled, Max Jensen and Ryan Porter walked and one batter later, Apostle laid off a 3-2 pitch to give Cornell the lead back.

A two-out Canisius walk made it interesting in the ninth, but Mack struck out the final batter on three pitches to send the Big Red home with the victory.

Cornell returns to conference action and continues its eight-game road swing when it visits Princeton for a three-game set beginning on Saturday, April 9 at 11:30 a.m.

 
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