ITHACA, N.Y. – Cornell baseball celebrated the 100th anniversary of Hoy Field Saturday, as fans and alumni gathered to give the historic venue a proper sendoff with a pregame ceremony. Following the festivities, the Big Red dropped both ends of the doubleheader against Columbia 7-3 and 5-2, bringing their record to 9-22 (4-13 Ivy) on the season. With Saturday's sweep, Ivy League leading Columbia improved their record to 25-13 (15-2 Ivy).

Max Jensen had a great day at the plate for Cornell, going 4-for-7 across the two games with two doubles, a run scored, and a run batted in. Joshua Solomon provided the power for Columbia in game one, crushing two home runs and driving in four.  
 
Game 1
Game one was back and fourth to start, with both team trading blows in the first six innings. Cornell struck first in the bottom of the second, taking a 1-0 lead on an Austin Flematti RBI single. Just as quickly as Cornell took a lead, Columbia answered back, tying the game in the third off a solo home run by Joshua Solomon and jumping ahead 2-1 in the fourth thanks to an RBI off the bat off Hayden Schott. Cornell rallied for two runs in the sixth off a pair of RBI singles from Sam Kaplan and Jason Apostle to take a 3-2 lead.

After the sixth, the game was all Columbia, as the lions scored five unanswered runs in the remaining innings to win 7-3. The fatal blow came in the form of another Solomon homer, his second of the game, in the seventh, a three-run shot to give the Lions a 5-3 lead that they would never relinquish.

Columbia reliever Saajan May picked up the win out of the bullpen, moving his record to 5-0 on the season. Luke Yacinich went the distance on the mound for the Big Red, but was a victim of the two big home runs by Solomon, dropping his record to 2-4.

Game 2
Columbia got out to an early lead and never looked back. The Lions jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the second on a Weston Eberly solo shot and an RBI single from Solomon and added three more in the following two innings to push the lead to five. The score remained 5-0 Columbia until the seventh, when the Big Red scored two runs off a two out throwing error and a Max Jensen RBI double, cutting the lead to 5-2. Cornell flirted with a comeback in the ninth after a Matt Barnhorst leadoff double, but the Big Red failed to move him past second base to fall to the Lions 5-2.

A trio of pitchers turned in strong performances for Columbia, holding Cornell to only two runs on five hits while combining for 11 strikeouts. Andy Leon started for the Lions, turning in 3.0 innings of scoreless, one hit ball while recording two strikeouts to earn the win. Cornell's two runs came off reliever JD Ogden, who allowed only two hits but walked five Big Red batters. Billy Black earned the save for Columbia, striking out an impressive seven batters through his 2.2 innings.    

The Big Red will play their final game at the historic Hoy Field tomorrow at noon to close out the series.