VESTAL, N.Y. - Binghamton baseball will carry a five-game win streak into its Tuesday afternoon test at region rival Cornell. The Bearcats (9-15) and Big Red (5-14) will play a single game at 4:30 p.m. at Hoy Field in Ithaca.

Binghamton is coming off a three-game sweep of UMass Lowell over the weekend. After an uncharacteristic stretch of losing 11 of 13 games, BU has won five in a row. In the weekend sweep of the River Hawks, BU hit .326 and limited UMass Lowell to three runs over 25 innings (0.72 ERA). 

Junior right fielder Anthony Meduri continues to lead the team with a .341 average. Meduri has a team-high nine doubles and 13 RBI. Senior catcher Jason Agresti is hitting .317 with nine doubles and 14 RBI. Senior center fielder CJ Krowiak leads the team with three home runs and 15 RBI. 

Senior Jake Erhard will make his first career start on Tuesday. He has made seven appearances in 2018. In the meeting between the two teams last April in Vestal, Erhard worked 1 2/3 scoreless middle innings. 

Cornell has dropped five of its last six, including a 7-4 setback to visiting Yale on Monday. The Big Red are batting .223 - well below their 2017 Ivy League-best .295 average. They have a pitching ERA of 5.84. Cornell went 21-17 last spring but the 2018 campaign began ominously with a 22-0 loss at No. 10 Texas A&M, the same powerhouse BU faced in the 2015 NCAA Regionals (and lost 4-2). The Big Red are 1-5 in conference play, having lost two of three against Princeton and all three to Yale. In their most recent non-conference game last Wednesday, Cornell defeated Canisius 6-5 in 10 innings.  

Cornell leads the all-time series 21-15. The teams had split the last 12 encounters before the Big Red posted a 10-2 win last April 26 in the first-ever game under the lights at BU's Baseball Complex. The visitors used a grand slam and two-run home run to do the big damage in that game.