VESTAL, N.Y. - Binghamton baseball (21-19) shook off an early 5-0 deficit and surged past visiting Cornell (11-20) 8-5 in a rain-shortened game Tuesday night at Bearcats Baseball Stadium. The game was halted in the sixth inning with a sequence of lightning strikes in the area. The win, Binghamton's seventh in its last nine games, was identical to the result and score when the teams met two weeks ago at the Stadium. 

Senior catcher Evin Sullivan belted two home runs and drove in four runs to lead a Bearcats offense that scored two runs in the second, three in the third and three more in the fourth to finish off the scoring.

The Big Red scored five runs on five hits in the second inning to jump ahead 5-0. Sullivan led off the second with his 10th home run of the season - a shot over the wall in right center. Graduate DH Freddy Forgione and freshman first baseman Steven Kraus singled and Forgione scored on a grounder to make it 5-2.

In the third, Sullivan struck again. With one out, freshman center fielder Matt Bolton and senior right fielder Zach Rogacki drew walks and Sullivan followed with a deep blast over the center field wall to tie the game at 5-5. It was his 11th of the season, second-most in the conference.

Three-straight two-out hits finished the scoring in the fourth. Senior left fielder Logan Haskell hit a 1-out double to left and moved to third on a groundout. Sophomore second baseman Todd Abraham ripped an RBI single up the middle to give the Bearcats the lead 6-5. Bolton then drove a ball to the wall in right center for an RBI double and Rogacki followed with a long shot off the center field wall and legged it out for his third triple of the season and an 8-5 lead. 

With two outs in the Cornell sixth, the first lightning strike appeared and after a 32-minute weather delay and no letup in the storm, the game was called. 

Senior reliever Caden Rothbaum (W, 1-2) worked two shutout innings for his first win of the season. He struck out two and allowed just one hit. 

Binghamton now heads into its final bye weekend from conference play and will instead travel to Annapolis to face Navy in a two-game set.