VESTAL, N.Y. — Ten unanswered runs by the Cornell baseball team turned a 4-3 deficit into a 13-4 lead as the Big Red secured its first season sweep of Binghamton since 2017 with a 13-7 triumph over its Central New York rival at the Bearcats Baseball Complex on Wednesday night.
The top five hitters in the lineup for Cornell (14-17) combined for 10 of the team's 13 hits on the night, collectively going 10-for-21 with three doubles, a triple, and three home runs.
Junior first baseman Max Jensen led the way for the Big Red, going 2-for-4 with a home run and four RBI. Junior right fielder John Quinlan chipped in a double and a triple as part of his 2-for-4 night. Senior catcher Nathan Waugh had a team-high three hits, all of which went for extra bases (two doubles and a home run). Freshmen Mark Quatrani and Owen Carlson also registered round-trippers in the victory.
Senior right-handed pitcher
Story Kimura logged his second victory of the season – both of which came against Binghamton — after pitching 1.2 scoreless innings of relief. Junior left-handed pitcher
William Jaun ignited Cornell's six consecutive shutout innings as junior right-handed pitcher
Tom Clancy, sophomore right-hander
Josh Shea, and freshman southpaw
Nathaniel Jennewein all made one-inning appearances.
Devan Bade logged all six RBI for Binghamton (17-23), clubbing three-run home runs in the first and ninth innings. Conner Griffin was the losing pitcher of record for the Bearcats, allowing four runs in 1.2 innings of relief.
Cornell and Binghamton traded three-run home runs in the first inning as Jensen quickly put the Big Red ahead, taking advantage of a leadoff walk drawn by Quinlan and a single by junior left fielder
Kyle Musser. After a one-out walk and double, Bade registered the first of his pair of three-run blasts on the night in the home half of the frame.
Binghamton took its first lead of the night, 4-3, in the third inning on a wild pitch thrown by Jaun.
A four-run fifth inning for Cornell ultimately gave the Big Red the lead for good as sacrifice flies from Musser and Jensen set up Waugh for a two-run home run following an infield single by Quatrani.
Carlson joined Cornell's home run party with his first collegiate blast in the sixth inning to give the Big Red an 8-4 advantage.
After Quinlan hit a two-out RBI triple in the eighth inning, Cornell increased its lead to nine runs behind a four-run ninth. Quatrani drove in the first two runs with a two-run blast before the latter two runs came on bases-loaded walks drawn by freshman third baseman
Luke Johnson and Quinlan.
Bade tried to spark a ninth-inning rally with his second three-run home run of the night, but junior right-handed pitcher
Chris Ellison induced a pair of groundouts to conclude the contest.
GAME NOTES
• Wednesday was the 48th meeting between Cornell and Binghamton and was the sixth time in the last seven meetings that the Bearcats have been the hosts. Cornell saw its lead in the series increase to 28-19-1 as it has won five of the last seven and is 9-4-1 over its previous 14 games against its Central New York rival.
• Cornell's season sweep of Binghamton is its first since 2017, when it posted a 6-4 victory in Ithaca and a 10-2 triumph in Vestal.
• The 13 runs scored by Cornell are tied for the most ever scored against the Bearcats, matching the Big Red's output, also in a 13-7 victory, on April 18, 1985, at Hoy Field. It was the most runs scored on the road against Binghamton in program history.
• Jensen increased his hit streak to 11 games with his first-inning home run. The hit streak is tied with sophomore outfielder
Caden Wildman for the second-longest hit streak by a Big Red player this year. Senior catcher
Nathan Waugh owns the longest string of consecutive games with a hit this season, opening the campaign with hits in 19 straight games, dating back to last season.
CORNELL'S LONGEST HIT STREAKS
This Season
• 19 games, Nathan Waugh (2023-24)
• 11 games, Caden Wildman
• 11 games, Max Jensen (ACTIVE)
• 10 games, Mark Quatrani
• Waugh's fifth-inning home run was the 18th of his Cornell career, breaking a tie with Marlin McPhail (1979-82) and Erik Rico (1999-02) for the fifth-most home runs hit by a Cornell player in program history.
• The fifth-inning home run by Waugh was the 18th of his Cornell career, breaking a tie with Marlin McPhail (1979-82) and Erik Rico (1999-02) for the fifth-most home runs hit by a Cornell player in program history.
MOST CAREER HOME RUNS
Cornell Program History
• 24, Chris Cruz (2011-14)
• 21, Gary Kaczor (1977-80)
• 21, Bill Walkenbach (1995-98)
• 20, Brian Billigen (2009-12)
• 18, Nathan Waugh (2021-Present)
• Quatrani's ninth-inning home run was his ninth of the season, tying Brian Kaufman (2006) and Nathan Ford (2009) for the fourth-most round-trippers by a Big Red player in a single season.
MOST HOME RUNS IN A SEASON
Cornell Program History
• 12, Chris Cruz (2012)
• 11, Eric Kirby (1995)
• 11, Erik Rico (2002)
• 9, Brian Kaufman (2006)
• 9, Nathan Ford (2009)
• 9, Mark Quatrani (2024)
ON DECK
Cornell will conclude its 2024 regular-season slate this weekend when it travels to Providence, R.I., for a three-game series against Brown (9-27, 4-14 Ivy League) that commences on Saturday with a doubleheader scheduled for 11:30 a.m. The Big Red and Bears will play the series finale on Sunday at 12 p.m. All games from Attanasio Family Field at Murray Stadium will be broadcast on ESPN+.
