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Princeton University Athletics
Princeton University
Cornell (Game 1)
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Baseball Team Splits Doubleheader With Cornell
May 02, 2010 | Baseball
Game 1 (Box Score)
Brian Berkowitz belted two home runs in the opener as Princeton jumped out to a big lead in the opener and came away with an 8-7 win. Berkowitz homered in his first at-bats and drove a ball to the warning track in his third in his bid for three homers. He finished the game with five RBIs.
The two teams traded 10 runs over the first two innings with Cornell scoring two in the first and three in the second, while Princeton reversed that, scoring three innings in the first and two in the second. Princeton's three in the first came by virtue of Berkowitz's fifth homer of the year, and the Tigers added two in the second when John Mishu drove in a pair with a single.
The Tigers capped the scoring to go ahead 8-5 in the third when Berkowitz hit a two-run blast after Sam Mulroy hit a lead-off single. Princeton added its final run in the inning when Matt Connor drove in Andrew Whitener on a sac fly.
Zak Hermans earned the win, allowing four earned runs in four innings, while Matt Grabowski allowed just one hit in three innings of relief for the save. Taylor Wood took the loss for Cornell.
Game 2 (Box Score)
Cornell jumped to an early six-run lead and although the Tigers cut the lead to a pair of runs with a four-run fifth, the Big Red came away with an 8-4 win. Cornell starting pitcher Brian Billigen launched a three-run homer in the second inning and pitched four and a third for the win.
Cornell built its lead with three runs in the second, two in third and one in the fourth before the Tigers chipped away in the fifth. Berkowitz drove in a run on a sac fly and Kyle O'Donovan brought home the second run with a double. A double by Alex Flink drove in an other run and Mulroy brought home the final run of the inning with a sac fly.
That was as close as the Tigers would get as Cornell stretched out its lead with single runs in the sixth and seventh innings.
Billigen took the win for Cornell while Matt Hill got the save. Langford Stuber pitched four innings and took the loss.
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Princeton completes the season at 12-30 overall and 6-14 in the Ivy League.