Ithaca Shuts Out Elmira, 13-0
ITHACA, N.Y. - The Ithaca College baseball team won its Empire 8 Conference opener over Elmira, 13-0, on Hoy Field on the campus of Cornell University on Tuesday afternoon. With the win, Ithaca is now 3-7 overall, while Elmira falls to 0-5.
The Bombers established season-highs in hits and runs on Tuesday, and notched their second shutout of the year on the mound. Ithaca also collected five extra base hits.
Ithaca threatened to score in the bottom of the first on a one-out double off the bat of junior
John Stanley, but he was stranded there after the next two batters were retired.
In the bottom of the second, sophomore
Josh Savacool doubled down the left field line to bring home junior
Cameron Oathout, who reached on a single earlier in the frame. Savacool moved up to third on a wild pitch, and then scored on a base hit up the middle from senior
Cooper Belyea to give the Bombers a 2-0 lead.
Ithaca tacked on one more in the third on a base hit by junior
Zach Pidgeon that pushed Stanley in from second. Stanley reached on his second hit of the game and moved up to a base on a wild pitch.
Senior
Christian Brown led off the bottom of the fifth with a double, advanced to third on a fly out and came home on a wild pitch to put Ithaca up, 4-0.
Two more runs were put on the board by the Bombers in the sixth on a base hit and walk. Savacool drove in Oathout and then Brown picked up an RBI on a walk that scored Connolly, who reached on an error.
Ithaca continued to build onto its lead with four more runs in the seventh. Three base hits to start the frame led to one run and a sacrifice fly from Oathout brought in another. A triple from Savacool pushed home junior
Stephen Yanchus and the final run crossed on a throwing error.
The 13-0 outcome was capped off with four more runs in the eighth.
Savacool led the offensive attack with a 3-for-4 afternoon at the plate. He drove in three runs, scored twice, doubled and tripled. Stanley and Pidgeon both went 2-for-4 to account for the other multi-hit games.
Senior
Andrew Sanders earned the start and victory for Ithaca and threw three no-hit innings with a strikeout. Junior
Benji Parkes was first in relief and tossed three innings with four strikeouts. Fellow junior
Brandon Diorio fanned two in two innings of work and senior
Jimmy Wagner tossed a perfect ninth inning and fanned one.
The Bombers are back in action Thursday afternoon, April 2, for a doubleheader against Oneonta at Cornell beginning at 2 p.m. Thursday's game was originally scheduled for tomorrow, but moved back a day.
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