Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 UTICA, N.Y. – The Ithaca College baseball program split their doubleheader at Utica on Sunday with an 11-0 win in the opener, but fell in the nightcap, 3-0. Ithaca is now 11-10 overall this season.

Game One: Ithaca 11, Utica 0

Juniors Benji Parkes and Ryan Contegni combined to toss a three-hit shutout, while the offense produced 19 hits.

Parkes picked up his second win of the season in seven solid innings of work. He gave up just two hits with two walks and struck out six Pioneers. Over his last two starts, Parkes has not given up an earned run over 16 innings with 15 strikeouts.

Contegni surrendered one hit over the final two innings of work and fanned two.

Junior Zach Cole and sophomore Trevor Thompson each drove in three runs at the plate, while senior Brian Burns had two RBI on a pinch hit single in the eighth inning.

Cole went 2-for-4 in the opener with a triple, walk and run scored. Thompson batted 2-for-6 with a double and two runs scored.

Six other Bombers collected two hits apiece in game one – seniors Christian Brown and Matt Connolly, junior Zach Pidgeon, sophomores Josh Savacool and Joey Randazzo, and freshman Domenic Boresta.

Ithaca scored in five of its nine at bats, highlighted by a five-run sixth inning.

Game Two: Utica 3, Ithaca 0

The Bomber bat struggled in the night cap, as the team only collected three hits. Ithaca never sent more than four players to the plate in any inning. Thompson, Burns and Randazzo all singled in game two.

Utica's runs came in the first, third and sixth innings.

Freshman Jim Sinopoli put together a solid performance in his first collegiate start with three strikeouts in six innings pitched. Sinopoli allowed five hits and three runs (two earned).

Ithaca returns to action on Tuesday, April 21 for a home contest against Elmira at 4 p.m. The Bombers will then travel to Oneonta on the 22nd and Oswego on the 23rd before returning back to Freeman Field for two doubleheaders against St. John Fisher on the 25th and 26th.