AUBURNDALE, Fla. – Cornell's baseball team split its final two games at Lake Myrtle Sports Complex and concluded a successful spring break trip at 6-3, which included contests in Tennessee, Georgia and Florida.
 
Coach Robbie Dombrowski's Rams improved their season record to 8-4.
 
Sean Alvarez homered, tripled and scored three times in Thursday's 10-5 victory over Greenville, a game the Rams led 10-0 through 4 1/2 innings. The junior newcomer leaves the Sunshine State with a team-best .465 batting average.
 
Kale Rose connected for a solo home run, his second of the season. Esteban Perez went 2-for-5 with a pair of runs. Cade Parks doubled and drove in three. Alec Boldt also had a double and two RBIs.
 
Freshman Lucas Brutsche limited Greenville (4-11) to four hits and did not allow an earned run over 4.2 innings.
 
The Rams went back and forth with Stockton (7-7) in Friday's finale, which saw Cornell lead 4-1 going into the eighth inning. Stockton struck four times in the top of the eighth and added two key insurance runs in the ninth.
 
Cornell rallied for two runs in the bottom of the ninth to pull within 7-6. The Rams had the tying run on second base when the Ospreys escaped with a game-ending fielder's choice.
 
Perez went 3-for-4 with a triple, two runs and an RBI. Alvarez delivered two hits and two RBIs from the leadoff spot. Rose and Vince Zipperer added one RBI apiece.
 
Starting pitcher Agustin Velazquez gave the Rams a quality six-inning start, yielding five hits and one run while fanning four.
 
Coming up – The Rams open Midwest Conference play with a much-anticipated three-game series next weekend against defending MWC champion Beloit. The teams play a doubleheader March 23 in Beloit, Wis., followed by a single game March 24 in Mount Vernon.