AUBURNDALE, Fla. – A day after scoring 16 runs to open its spring trip to Florida, the Ithaca College baseball team was shutout by Dickinson College, 1-0, at Lake Myrtle Park on Monday afternoon. The Bombers are now 5-2 on the season and have five games remaining on their spring trip.

IC, which had won its past four games, ran into a Dickinson squad that had also won four in a row, and the Red Devil pitchers kept the Bombers off balance all afternoon.

The Bombers recorded five hits on the day, two coming from Matt Fabian, and drew five walks, but could not capitalize with runners in scoring position. IC placed at least one runner in scoring position in five different innings and had a chance to take the lead in the top of the fifth, but Fabian was thrown out at the plate on a double steal attempt.

Dickinson jumped on that momentum swing and scored the lone run of the contest in the bottom half of the fifth. After a groundout, the Red Devils picked up two of their three hits in the game, to account for the 1-0 outcome.

IC once again had chances to tie things up in the eighth and ninth innings but were unsuccessful. In the eighth, Colin Shashaty led off with a walk and moved to second on a passed ball. He then advanced to third on a fly out but was stranded.

In the ninth, Gil Merod drew a lead-off walk and Ryan Laubscher followed with a single, but three straight outs ended the contest.

Kyle Lambert was dealing all afternoon but wound up on the wrong end of the outcome. Lambert struck out four batters and allowed just one run on three hits in the loss.

Ithaca plays Franklin & Marshall tomorrow morning at 9:15 a.m. at the Chain of Lakes Park Stadium in Winter Haven, Fla.