VESTAL, N.Y. - Binghamton baseball (27-9, 12-2 America East), winners of 10 straight conference games, heads to Long Island for an abbreviated two-game set against Stony Brook (21-23, 8-9 AE) at 11 a.m. on Sunday. The first-place Bearcats can clinch the regular season title and No. 1 postseason seed with a split of the doubleheader. Binghamton has a 3.5-game lead over second-place UMBC in the America East standings and needs just one more win in its last five regular-season games (or a UMBC loss) to claim the program's sixth regular season title.

The Bearcats, the subject of a recent national feature on d1baseball.com, have the 11th-best win-loss percentage in the country (.750). Head coach Tim Sinicki's squad has won 14 of its last 16 games and is 27-6 since late February. The team is hitting .290 and has the nation's 10th-lowest ERA (3.10). That ERA figure has been at an even-lower 2.70 since Feb. 24. 

Freshman second baseman Justin Drpich is hitting .346 with 24 RBI in 20 starts. Junior center fielder CJ Krowiak has lifted his average to .324 and has scored a team-high 36 runs. Sophomore third baseman Justin Yurchak is hitting .312 and has an on-base percentage of .469, which ranks 44th in the nation. Senior first baseman Brendan Skidmore has four home runs and a team-high 31 RBI.

Sophomore Nick Gallagher (7-1, 1.40 ERA) is 10th in the country in ERA and 23rd in fewest hits allowed per outing (5.77). Opponents are hitting just .180 off him this spring. Juniors Nick Wegmann (3-4, 3.22 ERA) and Jacob Wloczewski (3-1, 2.85 ERA) have been the other weekend starters.

Stony Brook swept three games from Maine two weekends ago and pushed its win streak to four before losing two tight games at Albany last Saturday. They have been off for the last week. The team is hitting .266 and has a 4.98 pitching ERA. The Seawolves returned 16 letterwinners and seven (of nine) starters from a 2016 squad that lost to Binghamton in the America East title game. They were picked to finish second in the preseason poll and are currently in fourth place. Stony Brook, however, is 15-5 at home this spring, including a 7-2 mark in conference play.

Senior outfielder Toby Handley leads the team with a .344 average and 31 RBI. Senior Casey Baker has 31 RBI. The pair have combined to steal 30 bases. Sophomore Dylan Resk has a league-leading 11 home runs. On the hill, the Seawolves will start sophomore Bret Clarke (3-3, 6.06 ERA) and freshman Brian Herrmann (2-3, 3.48 ERA).

Since both programs elevated to Division I, Stony Brook leads the head-to-head series 40-30-1. Binghamton, however, won all four matchups last spring, including a 6-3 victory in the America East championship game. The two teams have combined to win eight of the last nine conference championships (four each).