Yaphank, N.Y. -- The Ithaca College baseball team (0-1) dropped its season opener Friday, losing 3-2 to Old Westbury (3-2). The Panthers scored two seventh-inning runs and held off a late Bomber rally.

Junior outfielder Andrew Turner collected two of Ithaca's five hits. He singled in the game's first run in the fifth and scored the Bombers' second run in the eighth inning.

Trailing 3-1 after seven, Turner's lead-off single and a walk to senior first baseman Mike Preite put the tying runs on base. After sophomore shortstop Tim LoCastro sacrificed the runners to second and third, a run-scoriung groundout by senior outfielder Mike Rosenbaum brought Turner home and moved the tying run to third. The Panthers retired Ithaca's final four hitters to escae with the run.

Ithaca took a 1-0 lead in the fifth with a two-out rally. Sophomore third baseman Colby Gee singled, freshman Vinny Gneo walked and Turner followed with an RBI single. Preite singled to load the bases before Old Westbury picked up the third out.

Senior Tucker Healy allowed four hits over 6.1 innings. He struck out six and walked one. Freshman Jimmy Wagner threw 1.2 innings of one-hit relief.

Bombers return to action Saturday, facing Mount St. Mary at 11 a.m.

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