ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell softball team again scratched together a comeback, but Brown persevered for a 5-2 win in eight innings to spoil the Big Red's Senior Day on Sunday afternoon at Niemand*Robison Field. The Bears closed their season at 16-25 (7-14 Ivy), while the Big Red slipped to 15-19 (5-10 Ivy).

On Senior Day, it was rookie Lilly Travieso whose first career home run in the seventh sent the game into extra innings. She ended the day 1-for-3 with a pair of RBI. Maicie Levitt and Emma Antich each had two doubles and Hanna Crist reached base twice on walks. Mia Burd was exceptional in the circle, going 6.0 innings and allowed just three hits and one earned run while striking out six without issuing a walk.

Lauren Innerst picked up the win in the circle for Brown, allowing just three hits and two earned runs while pitching all 8.0 innings in her final collegiate start. She got the win after a three-run eighth that included a two-run homer by Madeline Charles to cap the scoring.

The only hit in the first five innings was a leadoff double by Antich that was hit straight in the air and was taken by the wind, finally landing in front of the pitcher's circle untouched. By the time Brown was able to pick it up, Antich was sliding into second safely. Innerst was able to get out of trouble with a strikeout, a lineout and a hard-hit fly ball to right.
 
Brown scored two in the sixth on three hits, its first of the game, and an error that allowed one unearned run to score. 

Cornell tied it up in the bottom of the seventh, with Emily McKinney drawing a walk before Travieso hit a 2-0 pitch over the leftfield fence, just off the glove of a hard-charging Kat Clum.

Consecutive doubles and a homer by Charles in her final collegiate contest was too much to overcome in extra innings.

The Big Red will play a three-game Ivy League series against Harvard beginning with a midweek doubleheader on Tuesday, May  3 at 1:30 p.m. at Niemand*Robison Field.