ITHACA, N.Y. - The Ithaca College baseball team, ranked 20th nationally, secured the Empire 8 championship with a doubleheader sweep of St. John Fisher (16-11, 4-4 Empire 8) on Saturday at Freeman Field. The Bombers (24-5, 9-0 Empire 8) rallied to win the first game 4-3 in nine innings of a scheduled seven-inning game, and then went on to a 6-4 win in the second game.

With a 9-0 conference record, the Bombers have secured the Empire 8 championship. There is no postseason tournament in Empire 8 baseball. Ithaca will again host St. John Fisher for a doubleheader Sunday at Freeman Field beginning at 1 p.m.

Ithaca 4, St. John Fisher 3 (9 inn.) | Box Score and Play-by-Play

The Bombers trailed 2-0 and 3-2 in the game, but came back to even the score each time and scored the winning run in the bottom of the ninth. After St. John Fisher went ahead 2-0 on two solo home runs, the Bombers got one run back in the fourth on a sacrifice fly by Matt Connolly and tied it in the fifth on a sac fly from Tim Locastro that followed a leadoff triple by Christian Brown.

Fisher went ahead in the top of the seventh as a run crossed on a wild pitch, but Ithaca answered in the bottom of the inning when Corey Caswell's sacrifice fly brought in Locastro from third. The winning run scored in the ninth when the Bombers loaded the bases and Max Addy singled up the middle with the infield drawn in to bring in the winning run. Brown and Caswell led Ithaca with two hits each and Brown scored twice.

Pat Lemmo picked up the victory with a complete-game effort to improve to 6-0 on the season. He allowed three runs over nine innings, two of those coming on solo home runs. Lemmo yielded seven hits and walked two batters, with eight strikeouts.

Ithaca 6, St. John Fisher 4 | Box Score and Play-by-Play

The Bombers led early, but Fisher took a 4-3 lead in the top of the fourth with a three-run homer. Ithaca answered with three runs in the bottom of the fourth and went on to the victory. Seven different batters had at least one hit and five different players drove in at least one run.

Ithaca turned three double plays in the game in support of starting pitcher Jimmy Wagner and reliever David Jasukonis, who earned the victory to improve to 1-2 on the year. Jasukonis worked 3.2 innings of scoreless relief with two strikeouts and he didn't issue a single walk.

Ithaca scored twice in the bottom of the first on a sac fly foul out by Tim Henry and an RBI triple by Colby Gee. A sac fly from Brown in the second brought in another run and a three-run rally in the fourth was highlighted by an RBI triple from Brown.

Six of Ithaca's 10 runs in the doubleheader came in to score on sacrifice fly RBIs.