VESTAL, N.Y. - Binghamton baseball (21-13) carries an 11-game win streak into Tuesday night's home non-conference game against Cornell (7-23) - the first of five straight non-conference games. The teams square off for the second time in two weeks at 6:30 p.m. at Bearcats Baseball Stadium. 

Binghamton has won 14 of its last 16 games to vault into first place in the America East with nine conference games remaining. 

Sophomore second baseman Sean Sweeney continues to lead the league with a .425 average. Sophomore catcher Tommy Popoff has a team-high 27 RBI and sophomore center fielder Matt Bolton is batting .333 with 17 extra-base hits and 26 RBI. Popoff was named America East Player of the Week after driving in seven runs in a 4-0 week. Sophomore right fielder Braylen Gonzalez ranks second in the conference with a .505 on-base percentage and fourth with a 1.037 OPS. 

The Bearcats are hitting .265 as a team (4th in AE), have a 5.97 pitching ERA (4th) and lead the conference with a .972 fielding percentage. Binghamton has turned a conference-high 33 double plays.

Junior Ryan Bates (0-0, 7.20 ERA) will make his second start of the season tonight. 

Cornell has dropped six of its last seven, including two of three at Yale over the weekend. The Big Red are 5-10 in the Ivy League but sit just 1.5 games out of fourth place. The team is hitting .254 and has a 7.40 ERA. 

The Big Red lead the all-time series, which dates back to 1984, 26-22-1, but Binghamton has won three straight, including an 11-4 win last Tuesday in Ithaca. In that game, scored eight runs over the final four innings to rally at Booth Field. Held to three hits through the first six innings, Binghamton's offense erupted in the late innings, turning a 4-3 deficit into a lopsided win. The Bearcats scored two runs in the sixth, two in the seventh, one in the eighth and three closing runs in the ninth. Meanwhile, eight Binghamton pitchers limited the Big Red to five hits, including none over the final 4.1 innings.