VESTAL, N.Y. - Binghamton baseball (15-22) welcomes Cornell (9-23) for the third and final installment of the split three-game series between the two geographic neighbors Tuesday night. The teams will play at 6:30 p.m. at Bearcats Baseball Stadium after having split the first two games with each team winning at home. 

Binghamton is coming off another successful weekend when it took two of three from America East opponent UMBC. The Bearcats have won four straight conference series' to move into a tie for the top playoff position in the division. On Sunday, however, the Retrievers snapped BU's seven-game conference win streak with a 12-7 win. 

Senior shortstop Jake Evans has jumped his batting average up to a team-best .333, thanks to a .472 clip in America East play. Senior right fielder Colin Mason has also been on a hot streak and has moved his average to .314. Freshman catcher/DH Evin Sullivan is hitting .313 with 15 extra-base hits and a team-high 25 RBI. Senior catcher/1B Connor Aoki has eight home runs and 23 RBI. 

On the hill, freshman lefty Caden Rothbaum (0-2, 5.06 ERA) is set to make his third start of the season. 

The Bearcats are hitting .260 as a team (7th in AE) and rank second in pitching (5.98 ERA) and fifth in fielding (.965). 

Cornell has dropped 10 of its last 12 games after winning four of its previous six. Over the weekend, the Big Red lost all three to visiting Columbia in Ivy League play. The team is 4-14 in conference play. Freshman first baseman Max Jensen leads the team in average (.345) and RBI (21). Junior outfielder Sam Kaplan is hitting .338 with a team-high seven home runs and 21 RBI. The Big Red are hitting .248 and have a 8.86 pitching ERA. 

In the previous two meetings this spring, BU won 5-3 on April 12 at home and Cornell countered with a 10-9 walk-off win in Ithaca on April 20. In the first game, Sullivan drove in three runs and classmate Nick Roselli knocked in the other two. The duo went back-to-back with home runs in the sixth inning to extend BU's lead to 5-1. The Bearcats hung on despite being outhit 7-5. In the return game at Hoy Field, the Big Red used two walks, an infield single and a hit batter to push across the winning run in the bottom of the 10th. Aoki drove in two and BU took a 9-6 lead with three runs in the top of the eighth before Cornell forced extras with three runs of its own in the bottom of the eighth. The Big Red won despite committing six errors. The teams have used a combined 31 pitchers in the two head-to-head games. 

Cornell leads the all-time series, which began in 1984, 23-19-1.