DAVENPORT, Fla. – The Ithaca College baseball team was tangled in a high-scoring affair to open its spring trip to Florida on Sunday at Northeast Regional Park 3 against North Park University, and the Bombers came away with a 16-11 victory to improve to 5-1 on the season.

Ithaca jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first on a two-run double by Buzz Shirley, which brought home Louis Fabbo and Nicholas Cutaia. North Park tied the game in the bottom of the second and built a 9-5 lead by the bottom of the fourth.

The Bombers answered with three runs in the top of the fifth as Gil Merod stroked a two-run home run and Ryan Laubscher followed with an RBI single.

IC tied the game at 9-9 in the sixth as Shirley drove home Fabbo with a single up the middle, and then the Bombers broke the game open with six runs in the seventh inning and one more in the eighth to make the score 16-9.

In the seventh, Ethan Rothstein drove home a pair with a single through the right side the start the rally. Colin Shashaty brought home two more runs with a bast hit up the middle and then Shirley plated a run with a hit by pitch. Matt Fabian capped the rally with an RBI groundout.

IC's final run of the game scored on an RBI single from Fabbo, which brought in Rothstein.

Shirley and Merod each went 3-for-5 in the win, while Fabbo was 3-for-4 with four runs scored.

Garrett Bell earned the win in 4.0 innings of relief as he struck out five and allowed just one run on two hits.

The Bombers play Dickinson at 4:30 p.m. on Monday at Lake Myrtle Park in Auburndale.