HARRISONBURG, Va. — A leadoff home run by James Madison's Jason Schiavone in the sixth inning broke open a 1-1 tie and Cameron Calabrese (RBI single) and Brendan O'Donnell (RBI double) capped a three-run sixth inning for the host Dukes as they defeated Cornell, 5-1, at Eagle Field at Veterans Memorial Park on Friday afternoon.

O'Donnell and Calabrese each chipped in one more RBI on the day for the Dukes (6-3), who plated the final five runs of the game to increase their win streak to five games.

The contest, which took a brisk one hour, 57 minutes, was mostly a pitcher's duel as James Madison's Todd Mozoki and Cornell sophomore right-hander Carson Mayfield each retired at least 10 consecutive batters from the second to sixth innings.

Mozoki allowed one run on five hits over his seven innings toeing the rubber for the Dukes. He walked one and struck out five Cornell batters in the quality start. Mayfield lasted 5.1 innings, allowing four hits and three runs while issuing just one free pass and fanning three.

After receiving an RBI single by senior catcher Nathan Waugh in the first inning, Cornell drew a leadoff walk and had a single from senior second baseman Matt Barnhorst to give the Big Red a pair of runners on base with no outs. A double play on an infield pop fly was the first of 16 consecutive Cornell batters Mozoki would set aside until sophomore right fielder Caden Wildman snapped the streak with a two-out single in the seventh inning.

In the home half of the second, James Madison evened the game with a two-out, solo home run by O'Donnell to straight-away center field, just out of the reach of a leaping Jakobi Davis. O'Donnell upped his home run total to a James Madison-leading five on the year with his four-bagger.

Mayfield begun his string of consecutive outs after allowing a single to Wyatt Peifer following O'Donnell's blast, where he would not retire another Dukes batter until Schiavone's leadoff home run in the sixth.

Cornell had opportunities in the seventh and eighth innings to trim the Dukes' lead, but were held in check by Mozoki and relief pitcher Hunter Entsminger. Wildman's single was followed up by Barnhorst's second base hit of the day, but a sliding catch by O'Donnell in foul territory thwarted the Big Red's two-out rally in the seventh. Leading off the eighth, Davis was plunked by a pitch before he was thrown out on a fielder's choice off the bat of freshman third baseman Luke Johnson. Junior first baseman Max Jensen singled Johnson to third base with one out, but Entsminger got a strikeout and a check-swing groundout to get out of the frame unscathed.

James Madison added on an insurance run in the eighth behind a sacrifice fly off the bat of Calabrese.

GAME NOTES
• Friday was the ninth meeting between Cornell and James Madison. The Dukes have won the last four in the series against the Big Red, all of which have come at Eagle Field at Veterans Memorial Park.

• Jensen recorded his 21st multi-hit performance of his collegiate career, while Barnhorst notched his 11th game with two-plus hits and is Cornell's lone player with multiple two-hit games this season.

• Waugh increased his hit streak to eight games, dating back to last season, already increasing his career long. Wildman also upped his career-long hit streak to four games with his seventh-inning single.

• Mayfield's 5.1 innings of work established a new single-game high for the sophomore, besting a pair of five-inning outings in 2023.

• Cornell has scored the first run of the game in three of its four contests to open the season. In all of the instances in which the Big Red has scored first, they have plated the game's first run in the first inning.

UP NEXT
Cornell and James Madison will return to Eagle Field at Veterans Memorial Park for the middle game of the three-game series on Saturday for another 2 p.m. first pitch. Senior right-hander Von Baker (0-0, 6.75 ERA) is slated to start for Cornell. James Madison will counter with southpaw Max Kuhle (0-1, 3.38 ERA). No live stream for the contest will be available, but JMUSports.com will have a radio feed with Curt Dudley providing play-by-play.