VESTAL, N.Y. - Junior third baseman
Devan Bade mashed a pair of 3-run home runs but visiting Cornell (14-17) hit four home runs and scored in four of the last five innings to defeat Binghamton baseball (17-23) 13-7 in a non-conference game Wednesday night at Bearcats Baseball Stadium.
The Bearcats led 4-3 in the fifth inning before the Big Red rattled off 10 straight runs to pull away. Bade's two blasts bookended the game - he hit one in the first inning and the other in the ninth.
The teams combined to use 16 pitchers in a prearranged format and Cornell's nine hurlers limited BU to just six hits.
Each team hit a 3-run homer in the first inning. Cornell jumped ahead 3-0 before Bade and BU countered in the bottom of the frame. With one out, junior second baseman
Nick Roselli walked and junior catcher
Evin Sullivan doubled to right center. Bade followed with his first big blast on a 3-2 pitch. He sent it over the left field wall for his third of the season.
The Bearcats took a 4-3 lead with an unearned run in the third. Sullivan led off with a walk and came around to score three batters later on a wild pitch. But after the third, BU was held to one hit over the next five innings and Cornell took the lead with four in the fifth. The Big Red added one in the sixth, one in the eighth and four more in the ninth.
Bade (6 RBI) and Sullivan (2 hits) were the only Bearcats with multiple hits.
Binghamton continues its stretch of non-conference games by hosting Middle Tennessee State this weekend, beginning with a Friday night game.