Baseball Rallies Past Cornell in Game Two to Sweep Doubleheader, 4-2, 7-6

Saturday, April 9

Providence, R.I.

12 pm

Brown University

8-13, 2-3

Cornell

8-10, 2-1

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Cornell	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	5	3
Brown	0	0	1	0	1	2	X	4	6	3

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Cornell	3	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	6	12	0
Brown	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	5	X	7	13	0

Baseball Rallies Past Cornell in Game Two to Sweep Doubleheader, 4-2, 7-6 Image

4/9/2016 12:00:00 AM | Baseball

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – After Christian Taugner (Roselle, Ill.) tossed a complete game win to lift the Brown baseball team over Cornell in the first game, 4-2, the Bears rallied late in the second game, 7-6, to sweep Saturday's Ivy League doubleheader at Murray Stadium.

Brown improves to 9-13 overall and 3-3 in the Ivy League after sweeping Cornell for the first time since 2010. Cornell drops to 8-10, 2-2.

Tim McKeithan (Arden, N.C.) went 4-for-7 with 3 RBIs and two doubles in both games, while Josh Huntley (Aurora, Colo.) went 3-for-6 combined. The Bears rallied for five runs on six hits in the eighth inning of the second game to secure the sweep.

Game 1 (Brown 4, Cornell 2)
Taugner went all seven innings in the first game to earn his fourth win of the season. He allowed just one earned run to go along with one walk and a season-high 10 strikeouts. Paul Balestrieri took the loss for the Big Red in 4.1 innings of work.

Brown had six different batters record one hit apiece, while Rob Henry (Cranston, R.I.) drove in two runs.

Brown jumped on the scoreboard in the third inning when Jake Levine (Newton, Mass.) drove in McKeithan on a single to right field.

Jordan Winawer evened the score with a solo shot in the fifth, but the Bears answered in the bottom half when Sam Grigo (Westbrook, Conn.) bunted for an RBI single. Henry added a two-run single in the bottom of the sixth inning to give Brown the three-run advantage.

Cornell threatened in the final inning with a pair of hits before Marlon Rainville crossed the plate on an error, but Taugner forced a popup with two men on to seal the win.

Game 2 (Brown 7, Cornell 6)
Facing a four-run deficit, Brown rallied for five runs on six hits in the eighth inning for the one-run lead, before Henry came in to close out the ninth for his second save of the season. Reid Anderson (Aledo, Texas) allowed four runs in four innings as the starter. Robbie Stephens (Lexington, Ky.) picked up the win in relief behind two scoreless frames. Dante Bosnic (Lutz, Fla.) also provided two scoreless innings of work.

McKeithan went 3-for-4 at the plate with a pair of doubles and three RBIs. Brian Ginsberg (Calabasas, Calif.) and Huntley had two hits apiece and Henry drove in two runs.

After Cornell opened with three runs in the first, the Bears chipped away over the next two frames, as McKeithan hit an RBI single and Noah Shulman (Merrick, N.Y.) doubled in a run.

Cornell responded with one run in the fourth and two more in the fifth for the four-run lead, but the Bears exploded for five runs in the eighth. After Huntley sent in Ginsberg on a single to left, McKeithan hit a two-run double to left field and Henry followed with a clutch two-run single up the middle to push the Bears in front.

Henry then came in and got three straight groundouts to secure the win and complete the sweep.

Brown will wrap up Lou Gehrig division play tomorrow when the Bear host Princeton in a doubleheader at noon.