Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell opened the Ivy League portion of the season on Sunday with a pair of games against Dartmouth, but it was the visiting Green that left Hoy Field with a pair of victories. Dartmouth took an 11-1 win in the first game before claiming an 18-11 victory in game two. Dartmouth improves to 10-7 overall and 4-0 in the Ivy League, while Cornell slipped to 6-10, 0-2 with the doubleheader loss.
Cornell pitchers struggled with control all day, allowing seven walks in the opener and 11 bases on balls in game two. In the first game, Cornell freshman Corey Pappel struggled in his home debut, allowing a bases-clearing triple in the first inning that would ultimately prove to be all the offense Dartmouth would need.
Pappel lasted 5.2 innings, allowing nine runs, all earned, on 11 hits and five walks while striking out seven. Bryce Klinesteker came on in relief, working the final 1.1 innings and allowing two runs on four hits and two walks. Both pitchers had a wild pitch and a hit-batsman in the first game.
Cornell's offense tallied just five hits in the opener, with junior outfielder Domenic Di Ricco tallying two of them. Freshman Mickey Brodsky accounted for the only run, smacking a solo home run to left in the sixth inning.
In game two, Dartmouth again struck early, tallying six runs in the first inning and nine in the third to take a 15-0 lead after two and a half innings, chasing Cornell's other ace, sophomore Matt Hill, after just two innings. Hill surrendered 10 runs on eight hits and three walks while striking out only two. Freshman Will Keehn came on in relief, but walked four of the six batters he faced, retiring one on a sacrifice fly and surrendering a grand slam to right-fielder Nick Santomauro. Keehn would end up charged for five runs on four walks and a hit before giving way to Dan Lea.
Lea would work the next 2.1 innings, surrendering three runs on five hits while walking three as Dartmouth stretched its lead to 18-1 after five innings. Freshmen Taylor Wood, Mike Carroll and Brodsky would then shut down the Dartmouth offense, working the last 4.1 innings, allowing just five hits while striking out four and walking just one.
Cornell did not give up, though, as the second half of the game was all Big Red. Freshman Jadd Schmeltzer had an RBI single in the fourth, scoring junior Nathan Ford, as Cornell got on the scoreboard. Cornell added another run in the sixth, as senior Brian Kaufman reached on a fielder's choice, moved to second on Schmeltzer's single, then scored on an RBI single by senior Ry Kagan.
The Big Red struck for six runs in the seventh to close the gap to 18-8, taking advantage of control issues from Dartmouth reliever Kyle Zeis. Zeis faced four batters in the seventh, hitting one and walking four before being lifted in favor of Dan Ternowchek, who promptly surrendered a grand slam to Kaufman over the right-field fence.
Cornell added one run in the eighth, as sophomore Nate David scored when Casey Brett reached on a two-out error. In the ninth, David lined a two-run double down the left-field line to score freshman David Polhemus and sophomore Steven Dannaway for the final margin.
David would go 2-for-2 on the day with two runs scored and two driven in. Brodsky also had a pair of hits in three at-bats, adding a run and one driven in. Kaufman was 1-for-3 with a run and four RBI, while Schmeltzer and Kagan both had a pair of hits.
Cornell's next scheduled games - a doubleheader against Harvard - was scheduled for Monday afternoon at Hoy Field, but an impending storm has forced the postponement of that contest. The doubleheader will be made up later this season. Check back to www.CornellBigRed.com for the latest schedule updates.