ORANGE, Calif. – The Ithaca College baseball team dropped to 2-2 on the season after an 11-1 loss to nationally ranked No. 10 Chapman University at W.O. Hart Park on Tuesday evening. Chapman scored nine runs over the final three home innings to improve to 11-3 on the year.

The Bombers had an opportunity to take an early lead in the top of the first inning. Sophomore Garrett Callaghan led off with a walk but was retired on a fielder's choice off the bat of senior Webb Little. Two batters later, senior Sam Little notched a base hit to put two runners on with two outs, but the potential rally came to an end with a strikeout.

Ithaca then fell behind Chapman, 2-0, after the second inning. A one-out single came all the way around to score on a double, and after a hit by pitch and stolen base, an IC error allowed the second run of the inning to come home.

Over the next two innings, neither team was able to produce a hit until a single by Callaghan drove in Ithaca's lone run of the game in the top of the fifth. Senior Cam Fuoti reached on a two-out error and moved into scoring position after a wild pitch to set up Callaghan's run-scoring base hit to center.

Chapman blew the game open in the sixth with five runs on six hits to take a 7-1 advantage. The Panthers loaded the bases on senior Andrew Bailey with a pair of doubles, a fielder's choice and walk, which forced Bailey out of the contest. Senior Christian Lalomia entered with a bases loaded jam with one out and surrendered four straight hits to let in all five runs of the inning.

The Panthers would tack on four more runs in the bottom of the eighth on four hits, including a two-run single and two-run double.

Callaghan, S. Little, senior Garrett Snyder and junior Buzz Shirley notched hits for the Bombers.

Bailey took the loss in 5.1 innings pitched as he allowed five runs (four earned) on six hits. Lalomia went 0.2 innings before junior Trevor Rumsey logged the final two innings of work.

The Bombers will head to Occidental tomorrow for a 1 p.m. (PST) matchup.