GENEVA, N.Y. - The Ithaca College baseball team opened their final Liberty League series against Hobart with a come from behind win, 3-2, on Friday in Gevena. With the win, IC is now 23-9 on the season and has clinched a No. 1 seed in next weekend's Liberty League Crossover Series. 

The Statesmen scored the first run of the game off a Bombers error in the second inning before tacking on another thanks to a sacrifice fly, taking a 2-0 lead into the third. 

IC answered back in the next half inning, as Nicholas Cutaia led off the inning with a single before a walk to Riley Brawdy moved Cutaia to second. Colin Shashaty would clear the bases thanks to a double to left field, tying the ballgame at 2-2 heading to the bottom of the third. 

Both teams' starters traded scoreless innings before Ithaca would take its first lead of the game, as Matt Curtis would double in Luis Fabbo in the top of the sixth inning, giving the Bombers a 3-2 lead going to the bottom of the sixth. 

Ithaca starter Colin Leyner escaped a jam in the bottom of the seventh, as the Statesmen led off the inning with a double. Leyner retired the next three batters in order, stranding the runner on second and keeping the Bombers in front 3-2 heading to the eighth inning.  

Leyner would finish with 7.0 innings, allowing no earned run on three hits while striking out six Hobart batters as Conor Burns would come on to relieve him in the eighth.

Burns would finish the final two innings, striking out three Hobart batters en route to his fifth save as the Bombers took down the Statesmen, 3-2.

Ithaca honors seniors Sean Kelly, Colin Shashaty, Bo Nicholson, John Griffin, Ben Landis, Ethan McDonough, Ethan Rothstein, and Louis Fabbo tomorrow in a doubleheader against Hobart starting at 10 a.m.