POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. - Binghamton baseball (15-19) tied a season high in runs in a 15-7 opening-game rout of Marist (17-16) but the bats were silent in a 6-1 Game 2 loss Wednesday afternoon at McCann Field.  

In the opener, BU trailed 3-2 before scoring three runs in the second inning and four more in the third to take control. After seeing a 9-3 lead cut in half, the Bearcats put it out of reach with six runs in the seventh inning. It was the second straight game Binghamton scored six in its final at-bat, after producing an epic ninth-inning rally to beat Hartford on Sunday.

Senior third baseman David Schanz drove in a career-high four runs and junior first baseman Brendan Skidmore also had four RBI as BU compiled 11 hits, including four doubles, a triple and home run.

Skidmore belted his America East leading seventh home run to highlight the seventh-inning add-on. He ripped a three-run homer over the wall in left center to complete the Bearcats' scoring. Schanz' big blow was a bases-clearing double down the left field line in the third inning.

Binghamton jumped ahead 2-0 in the first inning before the host Red Foxes put three on the board in their half of the frame. Five BU pitchers got in some work with junior Nicholas Liegi the lone hurler to post a clean slate (1.0 IP). 

Sophomore center fielder CJ Krowiak went 3-foor-3 with two RBI and three runs scored. Senior second baseman Reed Gamache had two hits and two RBI, sophomore right fielder Chris McGee delivered a two-run triple in the second inning and sophomore shortstop Paul Rufo added a 2-for-3 showing with three runs. 

In Game 2, however, the BU bats were silent with only two regulars in the lineup. Marist stretched a 1-0 lead with five runs in the second inning. That came after Binghamton loaded the bases with just one out in the top of the second but came away empty after back-to-back strikeouts. The Bearcats broke the shutout with a run in the fifth but could pull no closer.  

In the fifth, freshman right fielder Sean Trenholm led off with a double. Freshman center fielder Daniel Franchi singled, putting runners on first and third. Freshman second baseman Henry Pellicciotti brought in Trenholm with an RBI grounder but a strikeout and groundout quelled the threat. 

Franchi went 2-for-4 - the only Bearcat with more than one hit.

Five relievers limited Marist to one run on five hits over the final 4.2 innings.

The Bearcats next head to Baltimore for a three-game weekend set at UMBC. The teams open with a doubleheader at 3 p.m. on Saturday.