Box Score SEWANEE, Tenn. – Cornell's baseball team rallied for five runs in the final three innings and opened its nine-game spring break trip with a 6-3 victory over Sewanee Thursday afternoon.
The Rams (3-1) continue their trek south with two games Friday in Lookout Mountain, Ga. They face Mississippi for Women at 10 a.m. (central time) and Covenant at 1 p.m.
Junior
Kale Rose recorded his 100th career hit on a day he went 2-for-4 with two RBIs at the plate while pitching a scoreless ninth inning to earn the save. He is the third Ram on the active roster to total 100 hits, joining
Seth Beals (103) and
Darren Mancke (111).
Rose drew a two-out, bases-loaded walk that tied it at 2-2 in the top of the seventh inning.
Vince Tinajero put the Rams ahead in the eighth with a sacrifice fly, following by a run-scoring single from Beals.
Mancke added insurance with a solo homer in the ninth, marking Cornell's first round-tripper of the season.
Beals,
Sean Alvarez and
Vince Zipperer collected two hits apiece. Alvarez and Zipperer both tripled. Mancke drove in two runs.
Winning pitcher
Kaleb Whaley (1-1) fired five innings of four-hit ball in relief, allowing just one run. Rose stranded two Sewanee (6-5) runners on base in the ninth.