ITHACA, N.Y. – The Ithaca College baseball team will need to play a winner-take-all Game 7 on Sunday for the Liberty League Championship as the Bombers fell to RPI, 16-6, on Saturday at Booth Field at Cornell. RPI won two games on Saturday, defeating Skidmore in the morning contest, 14-3, to force the decisive contest tomorrow, which will start at 12 p.m.

The Engineers jumped on the Bombers early with three straight hits in the top of the first inning to take a 1-0 lead. An error allowed a second run to cross the plate for a 2-0 lead, but the Engineers would leave runners on the corners.

In the bottom of the first inning, Ithaca put one run on the board on a sacrifice fly from Collin Feeney that brought in Andrew McDermott, who led off the inning with a walk.

RPI knocked Ethan Murley out of the game in the top of the third inning with three runs on three hits to make it 5-1 before an out was recorded. Jack Colyer entered with runners on the corners but was unable to stop the bleeding as the Engineers plated three more runs to build an 8-1 lead.

The Bombers got two runs back in the bottom half of the third as Camden Laney scored on a bunt base hit by Feeney, accompanied by an error, and then Connor Pedersen drove in Ethan Fantel on a ground out.

RPI got those runs back in the fourth as four straight walks led to a run and then a base hit up the middle brought in two more for an 11-3 difference. Another run crossed on a base hit to left to give the Engineers a nine-run lead.

The Engineers continued to pour it on in the fifth and scored three more runs to make it 15-3.

IC loaded the bases in the bottom of the fifth and McDermott drove in a run with a ground out and then Ethan McDonough just missed a home run to left as two more runs scored on the double to make it 15-6.

RPI scored the final run of the game in the top of the sixth inning.