VESTAL, N.Y. - Binghamton baseball plays its fourth home game in five days when the Bearcats (7-19) host nearby Ivy League foe Cornell (7-14) in a non-conference game Tuesday night - the first of three games between the teams this spring. First pitch is set for 6:30 p.m. at Bearcats Baseball Stadium.

The Bearcats are coming off a solid weekend that saw them take two of three against Hartford — their first series win of the spring. The Bearcats have now won three of their last four conference games.
 
Junior left fielder Cavan Tully went 7-for-12 in the series (.583) to raise his team-leading average to .345. He ranks third in the America East with a .466 on-base percentage. Freshman DH Evin Sullivan is hitting .318, third-highest among conference freshmen. First-year pitcher Caden Rothbaum (0-1, 5.68) will make his second career start.
 
The Bearcats are hitting .252 as a team and have a pitching ERA of 6.63. The Cornell game will wrap up a string of four home games in five days before the Bearcats play the next eight on the road.
 
Cornell leads the all-time series, which began in 1984, 22-17-1. The Big Red are 5-2-1 in the last eight head-to-head, including a 5-2 win in Vestal in the last meeting on May 1, 2019.         
 
Cornell (7-14) is coming off a road weekend at Princeton which saw them drop two of three in Ivy League action. Before that, Cornell had won three of four, including a pair of home victories over Yale and an 11-10 non-conference win at Canisius. The Big Red is 3-6 in conference play.
 
The team was idle for nearly two seasons after the Ivy League chose not to compete in 2021.
 
Cornell is hitting .255 as a team and has a pitching ERA of 9.13. The Big Red is surrendering more than 11 runs per game thus far in 2022, though that number is skewed due to a season-opening series against now No. 3 Virginia (60 runs allowed in three losses).
 
Catcher Nathan Waugh leads the team with a .388 average. First baseman Max Jensen is hitting .338 with a team-high 10 doubles and 13 extra-base hits. Nine different players have home runs for the Big Red.