OSWEGO, N.Y. -- The 18th-ranked Ithaca College baseball team completed a sweep of a two-game season series against Oswego with a 7-1 victory on Wednesday afternoon at Laker Baseball Field. The Bombers broke the game open with four runs in the seventh inning. Ithaca has won 23 of its last 25 games, including a doubleheader sweep of Oswego back on March 29.
Bomber starter
Pat Lemmo worked eight innings and allowed just one run on five hits. The Lakers' run came in the bottom of the second inning on a leadoff single and two errors. Lemmo had two strikeouts and didn't walk a batter.
Jimmy Wagner pitched the ninth inning and had two strikeouts.
Ithaca took the lead with two runs in the top of the third when the inning started with back-to-back hits from
Matt Connolly and
Luke Stark. Connolly scored on a sac fly by
Christian Brown and Stark eventually scored on an RBI groundout by
Tim Locastro.
The Bombers added a run in the fifth on an RBI double by Locastro to score
Andrew Turner.
The seventh-inning rally included RBI hits by Locastro,
Tim Henry, and
Corey Caswell as well as an RBI sacrifice fly by
Colby Gee.
Locastro was 2-for-5 and drove in three runs on the day. Caswell and Turner also had two hits each.
Ithaca returns home to Freeman Field this weekend with a Saturday doubleheader against New Paltz beginning at 1 p.m. and a single game Sunday against York at 2 p.m.
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