Cornell (13-17, 10-8 Ivy League) at Binghamton (17-22, 7-11 America East)
When	May 1
Where	Vestal, N.Y. // Bearcats Baseball Complex
Watch	Wednesday
Radio	None
Live Stats	Wednesday
Notes	Cornell | Binghamton

 

Probable Starting Pitchers
Day	Cornell		Binghamton
Wed. 6:30 p.m. ET	RHP Beck Urofsky (0-0, 13.50 ERA)		RHP Hayden Tarsia (1-2, 4.58 ERA)

ITHACA, N.Y. — The Cornell baseball team will look to snap its four-game losing streak when it travels south on Interstate 81 for a clash against its Central New York rival Binghamton at the Bearcats Baseball Complex.

WEEKEND REWIND
• Columbia clinched the outright Ivy League title after sweeping Cornell, 14-11, 14-2, 13-0, at Booth Field last weekend.

• The Lions bashed 12 home runs in the weekend sweep, while combining to post a .390 batting average.

• Junior infielder Max Jensen hit a team-leading .385 on the weekend, which included a double, home run, and four RBI. Fellow junior John Quinlan (.357 — 5-for-14) was the only other Big Red hitter to hit over .300 in the series with the Lions.

DIGGING THE LONG BALL
• Despite having its 12-game home run streak snapped against Penn on April 13, Cornell has hit a home run in 19 of its last 22 games, registering 37 of its 40 blasts during the span.

• Cornell's 40 home runs are the most by the Big Red in a single season in the program's 153-year history. Freshman catcher Mark Quatrani registered the record-breaking blast with a leadoff blast in the sixth inning of Cornell's 14-11 setback last Saturday.

• Freshman infielder Kevin Hager's three-run homer in the first inning against Penn on April 14, was Cornell's 30th home run of the season, marking the first time in program history the Big Red has hit 30-plus home runs in three consecutive seasons.

• Having a flair for the dramatic, Cornell has hit seven grand slams this year, the most in a season on record in program history. The seven grand slams matches the program's combined output over the previous nine years (eight seasons).

Q'S PROVIDING THE A'S
• Junior outfielder John Quinlan and freshman catcher Mark Quatrani have been two of Cornell's most reliable hitters since the beginning of Ivy League play.

• Quinlan is hitting an Ivy League-leading .434 (36-of-83) against Ancient Eight opposition this season, ahead of Penn's Wyatt Henseler by three points (.431) for the lead for the Blair Bat, awarded to the Ivy League's top hitter in conference games.

• No Cornell player has earned the Blair Bat since Chip DeLorenzo in 1991, when he registered a .478 average against EIBL opponents (22-for-46). If Quinlan wins the Blair Bat, he would be the fourth Cornell player to earn the award since it was first awarded in 1971, joining Pete Watzka (1971), John DeMayo (1982), and DeLorenzo.

• Quinlan's 36 hits are the most in conference play by a Big Red player in program history and is tied for the ninth-most in EIBL / Ivy League history. With four hits this weekend against Brown, he would become the second player in EIBL / Ivy League history with 40-plus hits in conference games, joining former Dartmouth infielder Tyler Cox (45 in 2022).

• Quatrani has seven home runs in Ivy League contests, the most by a Big Red player in conference play in program history, besting six-home run ouputs produced by Raul Gomez (2001), Brian Kaufman (2006), and Sam Kaplan (2022).

• Quatrani's seven Ivy League home runs are tied with Columbia's Sam Miller for the second-most home runs in conference contests this season, trailing Henseler who paces the Ivy League with 10 home runs, tied with Columbia's Chandler Bengtson (10 in 2019) and Princeton's Kyle Vinci (10 in 2023) for the most home runs by a player in Ivy League play in a season.

• Paired with his home runs, Quatrani's 26 RBI are tied with Columbia's Sam Miller and Griffin Palfrey for the Ivy League lead in RBI. The 26 ribbies by Quatrani are tied with John DeMayo for the second-most by a Cornell player in conference games in a single season. Brian Kaufman (29 in 2006) assumes the record, ranking sixth in EIBL / Ivy League history.

QUINLAN'S HOT BAT
• Junior outfielder John Quinlan enters Wednesday's game holding a 1.72 hits per game average, ranking as the eighth-highest average among Division I hitters who have played in at least 75 percent of their team's games.

• Rutgers' Joshua Kuroda-Grauer leads the nation with his 1.81 hits-per-game average, just two points ahead of Georgia phenom Charlie Condon. Austin Peay's Clayton Gray (1.76), UTSA's Mason Lytle (1.76), Wright State's Sammy Sass (1.74), Fairfield's Dean Ferrara (1.73), and Duke's Ben Miller (1.72) have higher averages than Quinlan's clip.

• Harvard's Ben Rounds has the second-highest hits per game average by an Ivy League player (1.61), which ranks 26th nationally.

TOUGH TO SET DOWN
• Junior infielder Max Jensen enters Wednesday tied for the 30th-toughest batter to strikeout in Division I baseball, averaging a strikeout every 11.4 at-bats he has. Jensen is tied with Florida two-way sensation Jac Caglianone and Fresno State's Rocco Peppi.

• Among Ivy League hitters, Jensen's average is two points better than Yale's Alec Atkinson (14 strikeouts to 131 at-bats — 9.4 percent), who ranks 85th nationally. Jensen's classmate, junior outfielder John Quinlan, has an 8.4 strikeout-to-at-bat average (13 strikeouts in 109 at-bats), ranking 143rd in the nation.

LOOKING TO EXTEND THE STREAKS
• Senior catcher Nathan Waugh enters Wednesday's game riding a 34-game on-base streak, the longest by a Big Red player since Nathan Ford concluded his Big Red career with a 42-game streak over the 2008 (last two games) and 2009 (40 games). During his on-base streak, which dates back to last season, Waugh has a .276/.406/.488 slash line with six doubles, seven home runs, and 34 runs scored.

• Junior infielder Max Jensen owns a 10-game hit streak entering Wednesday's game, marking the fourth Big Red player to register hits in at least 10 consecutive games played, joining Waugh (19 games), Caden Wildman (11 games), and Mark Quatrani (10 games).

SCOUTING BINGHAMTON
• Binghamton enters Wednesday's contest with a 17-22 overall record and a 7-11 mark in America East play. This past weekend, the Bearcats avoided being swept by Maine last weekend as Binghamton opened a 15-0 lead in the second inning en route to a 21-4 triumph on Sunday.

• After winning six consecutive non-conference games, the Bearcats have dropped its last two to Cornell, 9-7, on April 16 and a 3-2 decision against Siena on April 23.

• Wednesday is the first of seven consecutive home for the Bearcats, with the first four being non-conference games as the Bearcats welcome Middle Tennessee for a three-game set that begins Friday at 6 p.m.

• Logan Haskell leads Binghamton's offense with his .320 average, while Evin Sullivan is right behind with a .313 clip. Mike Gunning leads the Bearcats in home runs (14) and RBI (35).

40 YEARS, 52 MILES, 47 MEETINGS
• Cornell and Binghamton will meet for the 48th time on Wednesday, the sixth time in the last seven contests where the Bearcats will be hosts.

• The Big Red owns the series lead, 27-19-1, and has won four of the last six and is 8-4-1 over its previous 13 games against its Central New York rival.

• In the last meeting between the two programs two weeks ago, Cornell scored four runs in the ninth inning — powered by a leadoff home run by junior outfielder John Quinlan and a go-ahead three-run home run by fellow junior outfielder Kyle Musser as the Big Red was down to its final strike. The victory for the Big Red was the first of two consecutive triumphs in which Cornell avenged an eighth-inning deficit of five-plus runs.

• Freshman left-handed pitcher Nathaniel Jennewein struck out a season-high five batters in his two-inning start for Cornell. Senior right-handed pitcher Story Kimura logged his first collegiate victory, pitching two scoreless frames.