Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 NEW PALTZ, N.Y. -- The Ithaca College baseball team totaled 18 runs in a doubleheader sweep at New Paltz on Saturday afternoon. 20th-ranked Ithaca won the first game 7-2 and the second game 11-1. Ithaca will continue its season with a doubleheader Sunday at York College (Pa.). The host Spartans are ranked 28th by the American Baseball Coaches Association. Ithaca is now 24-8 on the year.
 
#20 ITHACA 7, NEW PALTZ 2 | Box Score and Play-by-Play
 
Luke Stark led off the game with a solo home run and Ithaca never trailed. The Bombers added single runs in the second and third innings to build a 3-0 lead. A Cooper Belyea ground out brought in Matt Connolly in the second and a sacrifice fly by Brian Burns in the third scored John Stanley.
 
New Paltz pulled back into the contest with single runs in the fourth and fifth innings to make it 3-2, but Ithaca added two runs in the sixth and two more in the seventh to account for the final score. Connolly scored on a wild pitch in the sixth and Belyea singled in Christian Brown. In the seventh, Brown singled to bring in Tim Henry and an error on the play also allowed Cameron Oathout to score.
 
Benji Parkes started for Ithaca and picked up his third victory of the season to improve to 3-3. In the complete-game effort he allowed two runs, just one earned, on seven hits. He walked two batters and struck out four. Ithaca had eight hits in the game, two each by Stark and Brown.
 
#20 ITHACA 11, NEW PALTZ 1 | Box Score and Play-by-Play
 
Ithaca started quickly with three runs in the first inning and went on to a lopsided win. Tim Henry had an RBI single in the first inning and both he and Zach Cole scored on an infield error by New Paltz.
 
In the fourth, Colby Gee hit a solo home run to left field. It was his team-leading fourth homer of the season. Ithaca tacked on two in the sixth and five in the seventh. Trevor Thompson hit a two-run homer in the sixth, his first home run of the season. In the five-run seventh, Matt Connolly and Christian Brown each had two-run doubles.
 
David Jasukonis started on the mound and earned the win with a complete game. He allowed one run in the seventh inning. He allowed four hits in the game, walked four, and had five strikeouts. He is 2-0 on the season.