WASHINGTON, D.C. The Ithaca College baseball team lost its first game of season as No. 2 Salve Regina defeated the Bombers, 14-7, at the Nationals Youth Academy on Sunday. Ithaca is now 1-1 on the season.

In the top of the first Inning, Collin Feeney led the game off with a single but that was all the Bombers could do as Brayden Clark for Salve retired the next three Bombers in order.

Salve rode this momentum into the bottom of the first when Brandon Grover tripled to right to lead off the inning and Evan O'Rourke doubled to left to bring in Grover to put Salve up, 1-0. Wil McCarthy hit a sac flay to bring in O'Rourke and extend the lead to 2-0. After that run was scored, Jack Picozzi struck out two of the next three to get out of the inning.

The bottom of the second was where this game got out of hand early as Salve put up six runs to make it 8-0. Christan Ho doubled to bring in two runners who had reached via a hit by pitch and a walk, then Hunter Yawor hit a two-run homerun to right center to extend the lead to 6-0, which knocked Picozzi from the game and brought in Danny Drotos for the Bombers. Drotos faced much of the same when two more runners scored, making the score 8-0 before he could get out of the inning.

The Ithaca pitching staff had no answers for Salve as the lead grew to 11-0 in the third behind four more hits. Danny Drotos did not make it out of the inning and Sean Kelly was called in to relieve.

The Bombers got on the board in the top of the fourth when Ethan McDonough hit a solo homerun to right center for his first of the year.

Ithaca would get one more run in the inning thanks to a Riley Brawdy single that would bring in Camden Laney who reached on a single earlier in the inning.

Salve just kept hitting on the bottom of the fourth plating another run thanks to two IC errors, making the score 12-2.

In the top of the sixth, McDonough hit his second homerun of the game, and later in the inning, Brawdy drove in Laney after an error allowed Laney to reach base to make it 12-4.
 
Salve answered right back with two runs of their own in the bottom half of the inning when Trevor Greene came in to pitch for the Bombers and gave up a sac fly to score one run, and he walked in the second run to extend the lead to 14-4.

In the top of the seventh, Feeney got things started with a single and stolen base, then McDonough was hit by a pitch to put runners on first and second. Laney then reached on a fielder's choice to put runners on the corners with two outs. Feeney would come around to score on a wild pitch and Laney moved over to third after another wild pitch. Logan Scully would then double down the left field line to bring Laney in for a 14-6 game.

In the top of the eighth, Lucas Orlovitz came in to pinch hit and started the inning with a walk and Brawdy followed with a walk of his own. Zach Sperger pinch hit and singled up the middle to score Orlovitz for the 14-7 final.

The Bombers head to Long Island next weekend for four games against USMMA and St. Joseph's-Long Island.