Yaphank, N.Y. -- The baseball team (3-0) continued its season-opening offensive explosion, hammering #27 Plattsburgh (1-2) 16-3 Sunday. The Cardinals were ranked 25th in D3baseball.com's preseason poll.

The Bombers hit a season-high four home runs and pounded out a season-best 19 hits. They're batting .402 as a team through their first three games with 12 extra-base hits among their 44 hits.

Junior left fielder Teagen Barisi (Lansing/Lansing) hit his first Bomber home run and drove in four runs to spark Ithaca's eight-run fourth inning. Sophomore shortstop Nick Carlson (Canandaigua Academy/Canandaigua) and senior right fielder Matt Streich (East Greenwich/East Greenwich, R.I.) both hit two-run home runs to precede Baresi's three-run shot. Carlson's home run was the first of his career.

Third baseman David Ahonen (Victor/Farmington), a graduate student, hit his second home run in as many days to tie the game at 3-3 in the third. His two-run homer raised his career total to 99 runs batted in; he's one away from becoming the 20th Bomber to reach 100.

Ahonen, Carlson and Streich each collected three hits. Senior first baseman Trevor Wolf (Lansing/Freeville) singled and doubled and scored two runs. Sophomore center fielder Andrew Turner(Randolph/Randolph, N.J.) singled twice and scored three runs. Junior second baseman Matt Keller (Pelham/Pelham) added two hits.

Senior Andrew Wall (Newfield/Newfield) struck out seven batters (the second-highest single-game total of his career) and didn't issue a walk to raise his career record to 5-3.

Sophomore Jasper Adams (Amherst Regional/Amherst, Mass.) and junior Ian Rebhan (Black River/Ludlow, Vt.) combined for three scoreless innings of three-hit relief. In Ithaca's three-game season-opening weekend trip, the Bomber bullpen has totalled nine shutout innings, allowing six hits and two walks while fanning eight batters.

Ithaca's next game will be Sunday, March 13 when the Bombers take on #2 Kean at Chapman to open their spring break trip.

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