ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Ithaca College baseball team blew out visiting Cortland by a 14-2 score on Monday afternoon at Freeman Field. The Bombers scored three runs in each of the first two innings and put the game out of reach with a grand slam in a six-run fifth inning. Ithaca entered the game ranked 18th and Cortland was ranked sixth in last week's D3baseball.com rankings. The Bombers and Red Dragons were also the top two teams in the New York Region by the NCAA Division III Regional Rankings.

Tim Locastro was 4-for-4 with two singles and two doubles and reached base five times and scored four runs. Matt Connolly was 3-for-5 with an RBI and a run scored. Colby Gee walked three times and scored twice.

Locastro doubled in the first and scored on a wild pitch. The Bombers added two more runs that inning on two-out hits from Vinny Gneo and Connolly. Three more runs crossed in the second inning for Ithaca as Locastro had an RBI double, Caswell grounded out to bring in another run and a third run scored on a passed ball.

After scoring once in the fourth, the Bombers broke it open with six runs in the fifth, highlighted by Caswell's grand slam over the left-field fence, which was his team-leading third home run of the season.

Bomber starter Pat Lemmo picked up his eighth win of the season and is 8-0. He pitched seven innings with five strikeouts. He allowed two earned runs on eight hits and two walks, and was helped by three double plays. Zach Pidgeon worked the eighth inning and David Jasukonis pitched the ninth for Ithaca.

The Bombers ended Cortland's 13-game winning streak that covered each of the Red Dragons' 13 games since Ithaca's 9-5 win at Cortland on April 9.

Ithaca hosts St. Lawrence at 4 p.m. Wednesday at Freeman Field.

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