AUBURN, N.Y. – The Ithaca College baseball team improved to 12-6 on the season with a 6-4 victory over Oswego at Falcon Park on Wednesday evening. Ithaca used a three-run eighth inning to pull off the late comeback win.

Oswego jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the top of the first inning on four hits. Following a lead-off fly out, the next four batters for the Lakers produced base hits to plate all three runs.

IC answered in the bottom of the first with two runs as Sheldon Jay Walker III reached on an infield single and stole his way over to third. A wild pitch allowed Walker to score the Bombers' first run of the contest and Matt Curtis followed with an RBI groundout to bring home Ethan Fantel.

The Bombers had a chance to tie or take the lead in the bottom of the second but left the bases loaded and then Oswego went back ahead by two runs in the top of the fourth as a one-out error came around to score after back-to-back singles to make it 4-2.

In the bottom of the fifth, Camden Laney reached on a one-out single and then moved up on a wild pitch to set up an RBI double down the right field line off the bat of Matt Curtis to bring the Bombers back to within a run.

IC loaded the bases with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning after a Zack Sperger base hit to right field, but the Bombers were unable to score as the next batter was retired to keep the score at 4-3 in favor of Oswego.

Ithaca knotted the contest up at 4-4 in the bottom of the eighth as Liam Tiernan led off with a walk and was pinch ran for by Colin Dunn, who immediately stole second. Dunn moved up to third on a wild pitch and scored on an RBI single to left field from Anthony Mestre. After a walk to Fantel, both runners moved up on a failed pick off and then an intentional walk to Laney loaded the bases. Curtis drove in the go-ahead run on a sacrifice fly to left, which was dropped to retire a runner out at third. After another error loaded the bases again, Sperger brought in Laney with a single up the middle.

Luke Zelinko entered in the ninth to close out the game and earn his fifth save of the season.

Walker went 3-for-4 at the plate and stole two bases, while Curtis drove in three runs to propel the offense.

Ray Stein earned the start on the mound and struck out three batters in 3.0 innings while allowing four runs (three earned) on six hits. Trevor Greene tossed 4.0 scoreless innings of relief and Cooper Albert picked up the win in a scoreless eighth inning of work.

Ithaca will play a three-game series against RIT this weekend.