Box Score ITHACA, N.Y. – The Ithaca College baseball team picked up a 9-4 home victory over Elmira on Tuesday afternoon to improve to 12-10 on the season. Ithaca recorded 11 hits in the win, including five doubles.
The Bombers jumped out to a 3-0 lead after two innings of play. In the bottom of the second, junior
Zach Cole led off with a single and was followed by a double from senior
Christian Brown. A passed ball allowed Cole to score and a sacrifice fly from junior
Cameron Oathout brought in Brown. Senior
Cooper Belyea kept the inning alive with a hit by pitch and came around to score on a double from sophomore
Josh Savacool for the final run.
Ithaca tacked on four more runs in the third inning of four hits. Junior
Zach Pidgeon started things off with a one-out single and scored on a double by Brown with two outs. Brown then scored on an error before an RBI double from freshman Domenic Boresta and RBI single by Belyea capped off the inning. Oathout scored on the double and Boresta scored on Belyea's base hit.
Two more runs crossed in the sixth for the Bombers to give them a 9-0 advantage. Sophomore
Ryan Henchey and Savacool scored Ithaca's runs after reaching on a hit by pitch and walk. Senior
Matt Connolly and Thompson singled to drive in the runs.
Elmira cracked the scoreboard with a run in the seventh inning and added three more in the ninth to account for the final score.
Senior
Zach Dickstein picked up his third victory of the season in seven innings of work. Dickstein struck out a career-high nine batters and scattered five hits with one earned run allowed.
Fellow senior
Jared Amory tossed 1.1 innings in relief and fanned two, while junior
Ryan Contegni threw the final two-thirds with one strikeout.
Brown, Pidgeon and Savacool all collected two hits in the win. Brown went 2-for-2 with two doubles, two runs and an RBI. Pidgeon scored a run and went 2-for-4 at the plate, while Savacool batted 2-for-4 with a run scored and RBI.
The Bombers are back in action tomorrow at 4 p.m. at Oneonta. Ithaca will then play at Oswego on Thursday for another non-conference game also scheduled for 4 p.m.
