VESTAL, N.Y. - Visiting Binghamton baseball (19-17) took the lead with a four-run fourth and defeated Le Moyne (12-22) 11-8 Tuesday afternoon at Dick Rockwell Field. The victory extended the Bearcats' win streak to a season-high five games.

The teams combined for nine runs in the first three innings with the Dolphins holding a 5-4 edge. But Binghamton scored four runs on just three hits in the fourth and never relinquished the lead thereafter. The teams traded 3-spots in the sixth before going scoreless over the final three innings. 

Graduate first baseman Freddy Forgione went 3-for-4 with a solo home run and two RBI. He led off the top of the second inning with his seventh home run of the season to get the Bearcats on the board. Forgione added an RBI double in the third, when Binghamton trimmed a 5-2 deficit to 5-4. That two-run third also featured an RBI double by redshirt freshman second baseman Tim Hennig, who recorded his first two collegiate hits and first RBI. 

In the fourth, senior left fielder Zach Rogacki tied the game at 5-5 with an RBI double, senior third baseman Devan Bade followed with a two-run double to put the Bearcats up 7-5 and Hennig closed the scoring surge with a 2-out RBI single up the middle. 

Up 8-5, Binghamton scored three runs in the top of the sixth - on an RBI single by Bade and RBIs by freshman first baseman Steven Kraus and junior shortstop Mike Stellrecht. 

Six Le Moyne pitchers unleashed six hit-by-pitches, with senior catcher Evin Sullivan absorbing three blows, freshman center fielder Matt Bolton taking two to the body and most painfully, junior second baseman Zack Kent was struck in the second inning and had to immediately exit the game.   

Five Bearcat pitchers worked the game. Junior Dan McAliney (W, 2-0) struck out three and didn't allow a hit in his 2.1 innings. Sophomore Conner Griffin also struck out three in his two scoreless frames. Sophomore closer Jackson Mitchell notched his third save of the season with a scoreless ninth. He struck out a pair and stranded two with a comebacker to end it. 

The Bearcats next head to Lowell to begin a three-game America East weekend set at UMass Lowell on Friday.