VESTAL, N.Y. - Binghamton baseball (17-27, 13-14 America East) batted around and scored eight runs in the second inning en route to a 12-5 rain-shortened win over visiting Stony Brook (25-24, 19-8 AE) Sunday afternoon at Bearcats Baseball Stadium. The game was delayed with lightning approaching before the bottom of the fifth inning and then called nearly two hours later with no improvement in the forecast.

During the delay, BU officially punched its postseason ticket when Hartford lost. With three regular season games remaining (at UMBC), the Bearcats can earn anywhere from the second seed to sixth seed for the upcoming six-team America East tournament, hosted by Maine on May 25-28. 

After dropping the first two games of the series against their longtime SUNY rivals, BU broke out the bats early on Sunday. Binghamton scored three runs in the bottom of the first but trailed 4-3 before striking for eight runs on seven hits in the bottom of the second inning. The teams then traded single runs before the game was "official" after the Seawolves batted in the fifth.

In the second inning, BU used five straight hits off two Seawolves pitchers to start the onslaught. Junior first baseman Connor Aoki and freshman catcher Evin Sullivan produced RBI singles with Sullivan's hit giving Binghamton a 5-4 lead. Sophomore DH Kevin Reilly hit a two-run double and freshman third baseman Devan Bade added a run-scoring double to make it 8-4. Then with two outs, senior shortstop Jake Evans continued his torrid stretch with an RBI single. Evans is hitting .456 in conference play and has a 17-game hit streak - second-longest in program history. Three batters later, freshman center fielder Logan Haskell finished off the uprising with a two-run single for an 11-4 cushion. 

In the third, Bade added a sacrifice fly after Reilly belted a one-out triple off the wall in deep center. 

Reilly went 2-for-2 with a triple and three RBI and Bade also went 2-for-2 with three driven in. Haskell finished 2-for-3 with two RBI. Junior left fielder Cavan Tully was hit-by-pitch three times in two innings and scored two runs. 

Junior Ryan Bryggman (W, 5-5) notched his team-best fifth win of the season with 5.0 innings of work. 

The Bearcats close out the regular season with a three-game set at UMBC beginning Thursday night in Baltimore.