HANOVER, N.H. — Offense was on full display for the Cornell baseball team in its doubleheader sweep of Dartmouth at Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park on Saturday afternoon.

Cornell (9-25, 8-12 Ivy) scored 13 runs and pounded out 23 hits as the Big Red posted 6-2 and 7-2 victories over Dartmouth (2-36, 1-19 Ivy).

Senior left-handed pitcher Spencer Edwards earned the victory in the opener, allowing two runs on eight hits in his 7.1 innings of work. He walked four and struck out four while throwing a career-high 120 pitches.

Freshman right-hander Ethan Hamill picked up his second victory of the season for the Big Red after allowing three hits and two runs over his five-plus innings on the mound. Hamill walked six and did not strikeout any Dartmouth batters.

Fellow freshmen Carson Mayfield (1.2 IP, 1 H, 2 SO) and Beck Urofsky (4 IP, 1 H, 1 BB) both picked up the saves for the Big Red.

Game One Recap

Cornell took a 3-0 lead in the third inning behind a pair of RBI doubles by sophomore designated hitter John Quinlan and sophomore first baseman Max Jensen. Junior Nathan Waugh chipped in a sacrifice fly to plate Jensen, increasing the Big Red's lead.

Neither team would cross home plate until the eighth inning when senior right fielder Sam Kaplan hit a two-run home run to give Cornell a five-run lead. Waugh led off the inning with an infield single.

Dartmouth chipped away at Cornell lead in the home half of the eighth when Connor Bertsch hit a two-run single off Edwards with the bases loaded.

Thanks to a two-out fielding error by Dartmouth, Cornell was able to add an insurance marker in the ninth.

Mayfield, who escaped an eighth-inning jam in relief of Edwards by striking out Dartmouth's No. 8 and No. 9 batters, earned his second save of the season.

Quinlan and senior third baseman Joe Hollerbach each had two-hit days for the Big Red in the victory.

Elliot Krewson had a game-high three hits for Dartmouth in the setback. Devin Milberg was the losing pitcher for the Big Green after he allowed four hits and three runs in his six-inning outing. He issued a pair of walks and fanned five Cornell batters.

Game Two Recap

In the nightcap, Cornell recorded a base hit in all nine innings to guide the Big Red to its 7-2 victory and sweeping the doubleheader from the Big Green.

Quinlan, Waugh, and senior left fielder Wils Guy each recorded three-hit days for Cornell, who saw its pitching tandem of Hamill and Urofsky combine to allow just two runs on four hits.

Two of the four hits allowed by Cornell came off the bat of Dartmouth's Zackarie Casebonne, who enabled Dartmouth to strike first in the scoring column in the second with a two-out RBI single.

Cornell tied the game, 1-1, in the third on a solo home run by Kaplan before Dartmouth retaliated with a bases-loaded RBI groundout in the bottom of the third.

A two-run fourth by Cornell ultimately put the Big Red ahead for the remainder of the contest, as junior second baseman Matt Barnhorst opened the inning with a solo home run to tie the game. An RBI fielder's choice off the bat of Waugh gave Cornell a 3-2 advantage.

Waugh drove in his second run of the game with an RBI single in the sixth before hitting a two-out solo home run in the eighth.

Cornell drove in two more runs in the ninth behind a pair of bases-loaded walks issued by Mac Burke.

While pitching shined throughout the contest, Cornell's pitchers looked dialed in from the fifth inning on as they allowing just one hit — a two-out single in the seventh — and five Dartmouth batters to reach base.

Game Notes

• Cornell and Dartmouth met for the 185th and 186th times on Saturday. The Big Red improved to 86-99-1 all-time against the Big Green.

• With the pair of victories on Saturday, Cornell has won consecutive series in Hanover for the first time since doing so when it swept two-game series in 1982 and 1984.

• Following its four-home run day, Cornell has hit 30 home runs as a team this season, which is tied for the fifth-most in a single season. Following last year's 33 home runs, Cornell has consecutive 30-home run seasons for the first time since 2009 (hit program-record 38 home runs) and 2010 (hit exactly 30).

• The Big Red stole two bases on Saturday, increasing its season total to 53, matching the output by the 1981 team for the 11th-most steals by a Big Red squad.

• After starting the second game, Hamill matched the Cornell program record for most starts by a freshman pitcher (11 starts), joining Brian Williamson (1996) and Brian McAfee (2012).

• Kaplan and Waugh are now tied for the team lead in home runs (6), marking the first time a Cornell duo has hit at least six home runs in a season since Ryan Karl (9) and Chris Cruz (6) in 2014.

• Edwards recorded his first quality start of the season and the fourth of his career. It was the senior southpaw's first quality start since April 9, 2022 against Princeton (8 IP, 1 ER).

• Thanks to Mayfield and Urofsky both registering saves, the Big Red now has five saves on the year which is tied for the 13th-most in a season. It is the most saves in a season since 2018 (8).

• Cornell did not strikeout any Dartmouth batters in the nightcap, marking the first time Cornell was held without a strikeout on the mound since March 21, 2012, in a 5-4 loss to Virginia Tech.

Looking Ahead

Cornell will conclude its 2023 regular season looking for its first three-game series sweep since defeating Villanova on March 22-24, 2013. The last time Cornell swept an Ivy League series of at least three games was when the Big Red took all four games from Penn on April 23-24, 2005.

First pitch from Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park on Sunday is scheduled for noon. Game action will be broadcast on ESPN+.