Contact: John Hartrick (hartrick@binghamton.edu)

LEWISBURG, Pa. - Host Bucknell (13-7) scored four decisive runs in the second inning and the teams traded runs the rest of way in a 6-2 Bison win over Binghamton baseball (4-9) Tuesday afternoon from Depew Field. The game pitted two NCAA tournament teams from last spring.

The teams rolled out a combined 14 pitchers in the midweek non-conference game. Bucknell struck for four runs on three hits in the second inning. A pair of one-out doubles and an outfield error did the damage.

The Bearcats got one run back in the fourth when senior right fielder Jake Thomas walked to open the inning, junior second baseman Reed Gamache singled and two batters later, sophomore left fielder Eddie Posavec hit an RBI single to left. But two subsequent groundouts left two men stranded. Binghamton put runners on base in four of the final five innings but could only manage a single run in the seventh and left 10 men on base in the contest.

After Bucknell scored in the sixth to make it 5-1, Thomas hit an RBI single in the seventh to pull BU to within three. But the Bearcats left the bases loaded in the seventh and had a double play kill a final threat in the ninth.

Gamache had two of the team's six hits.

On the hill, BU used eight pitchers in a predesigned format. Freshman Joe Orlando, junior Vincent Caputo and freshman Dylan Stock each pitched a perfect inning. Senior Anthony Grillini tossed 1.2 scoreless innings, stranding two runners to get out of the second.

Binghamton returns to conference play this weekend with a three-game set at UMBC. The series begins with a single game at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday and concludes with a twinbill on Sunday.