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Box Score 2 HOBOKEN, N.J. -- The Ithaca College baseball team wrapped up a four-game weekend series at Stevens Institute of Technology with a split of Sunday's doubleheader. Starting pitcher
Andrew Sanders threw a complete-game shutout in the opening game as Ithaca won 5-0. In the second game, Stevens salvaged its only victory over the four-game set with a 5-1 win. Ithaca returns to action Wednesday with a 3:30 p.m. home game against Brockport. Ithaca is 14-5 overall and 3-1 in the Empire 8. Stevens stands at 11-7 and 1-3 in the conference.
ITHACA 5, STEVENS 0 |
Box Score and Play-by-Play Andrew Sanders scattered nine hits over seven innings in the complete-game victory. He worked perfect innings in the first and second, then escaped trouble in the third and fourth, leaving the bases loaded each time.
The Ithaca lineup provided the starter with three runs of support in the top of the third on a bases-loaded single by
Colby Gee, a fielder's choice RBI by Steven Yanchus, and an error on a stolen base that allowed
Tim Henry to score from third.
Brian Burns drove in Gee in the top of the fifth with a single through the right side and the insurance run in the seventh came on a sacrifice fly by Burns to bring in Henry.
Sanders' final line read seven shutout innings, nine hits allowed with two strikeouts and no walks. He improved his record to 2-1 on the year. It was Ithaca's fourth shutout of the season as a team.
At the plate for Ithaca, Gee had two hits including a double, and Henry scored twice. The Bombers stole three bases.
STEVENS 5, ITHACA 1 |
Box Score and Play-by-Play Ithaca pushed across a run in the top of the fourth to take a 1-0 lead on a
Tim Henry single to bring in
John Stanley, but that was all that the Bombers mustered in the contest. Stevens answered with two runs in the bottom of the fourth and tacked on three more in the sixth.
Stanley had two of Ithaca's four hits in the game, including a double.
Logan Barer pitched into the sixth inning and allowed five runs on 10 hits with four strikeouts and two walks.
Chris Anderson and
Matt Colbert combined to pitch two and two-thirds scoreless, hitless innings in relief.
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