Bomber Baseball Comes From Behind to Defeat Houghton
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Ithaca College baseball team extended its winning streak to seven games with a 6-3 comeback win over Houghton on Saturday afternoon at Hoy Field at Cornell. The Bombers trailed 3-1 after three innings but scored four runs in the final three innings to earn the victory. Ithaca improved to 11-4 on the year and Houghton fell to 3-6.
Bomber sophomore pitcher John Prendergast improved to 3-0 on the year as he went eight solid innings and allowed three runs, two of which were earned, with seven strikeouts and he didn't walk a batter. The Highlanders scored single runs in the first, second and third innings and on each scoring play the ball didn't leave the infield.
The Bombers got one run back in the top of the fifth after a leadoff triple by Luke Stark was followed by an RBI single from Brian Burns. Ithaca tied the game with a run in the seventh as Stark singled and was bunted to second by Burns. After a groundball moved Stark to third, Tim Locastro came through with a two-out single to left field to bring in Stark with the tying run.
Ithaca took the lead in the eighth when Corey Caswell tripled to right field and scored on a sacrifice fly by Max Addy. The Bombers added two insurance runs in the top of the ninth on an RBI single by Locastro and a sacrifice fly by Tim Henry.
David Jasukonis pitched the ninth inning and earned his second save of the year. He allowed one walk and had a strikeout.
Locastro, Henry, Gee, Caswell, Stark and Burns all had two hits each for Ithaca.
The Bombers return to action Wednesday at third-ranked Cortland.
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