Cortland, N.Y. -- The baseball team's three-game winning streak ended Tuesday with a 9-4 loss at third-ranked Cortland. The game, which was delayed 50 minutes because of a lack of umpires, was called because of darkness after the top of the seventh. Senior first baseman
Jason Friedman (Whitney Young/Chicago, Ill.) led Ithaca (9-6) with three hits.
Ithaca trailed 3-0 and 4-1 before cutting Cortland's lead to 4-3 in the top of the sixth. Junior outfielder
Eric Ferguson (Columbia/East Greenbush) and
Friedman hit RBI singles to pull the Bombers to within a run before the Red Dragons put the game out of reach with four runs in the bottom of the inning.
Ferguson scored Ithaca's first run, leading off the third with a double and coming around to score on a two-out single by sophomore infielder
Kurt Bednarcyk (Rochester/Fairport).
Bednarcyk finished with two hits. Junior catcher
Rob Raux (Ilion/Frankfort) closed out the scoring with a sacrifice fly in the seventh that brought home sophomore infielder
Alan Kartholl (John Jay/East Fishkill).
Kartholl had led off the inning with his first collegiate hit.
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