ITHACA, NY - The Vassar College Baseball team traveled to Ithaca on Friday afternoon for the Liberty League Crossover Divisional Series as the Brewers fell 11-1 in seven innings in game one before falling in a 9-5 heartbreaker in the nightcap. Vassar's season ends at 12-21 overall while the Bombers advance to the Liberty League Championship four-team double elimination tournament next weekend.

Game One - Ithaca 11 Vassar 1 (Seven Innings)

HOW IT HAPPENED

• Ithaca opened the scoring in the bottom of the first as Collin Feeney drew a one-out walk followed by a single through the right side from Louis Fabbo. Feeney then scored on a wild pitch before junior Pat Kerrigan induced a double play to limit the damage.
• The Bombers threatened again in the second following two singles from Ethan Rothstein and Riley Brawdy and a walk to Feeney. Kerrigan got out of the inning unscathed as he induced a lineout to senior Jack Silvera and struck out Fabbo to end the threat.
• Vassar put together two two-out singles from Silvera and junior Daniel Laderman in the third to put runners on the corners before Fabbo made a diving catch on a line drive from junior Marc Milano to keep the Brewers off the board.
• Camden Laney led off the bottom half of the third with a single to center followed by back-to-back walks to Ethan McDonough and Tyler Pugliese to load the bases with no outs. Matt Curtis' fielder's choice groundout plated Laney followed by a RBI groundout from Rothstein to make it 3-0.
• Colin Shashaty reached on an error to lead off the fourth and moved to third on a wild pitch. Fabbo blooped a one-out single into center field to push the Ithaca lead to 4-0.
• The Bombers tacked on a run in the fifth as Pugliese singled to right to lead off the inning and scored on a bases-loaded walk of Feeney.
• Vassar got on the board in the sixth as Milano led off with a solo homer to left field.
• Ithaca added on to the lead in the sixth as Laney drew a leadoff walk and McDonough doubled down the left field line with no outs. Pugliese then singled to left to score both runners.
• Brawdy singled through the left side to knock in Curtis followed by Shashaty's RBI single to make it 9-1. Feeney's sacrifice fly plated Brawdy before Laney's RBI single put the Bombers ahead 11-1.

FOR THE BREWERS

• Milano finished 2-for-3 with a run scored and a RBI while Silvera, senior Reid Lapekas and Greenhawt each tallied two hits.
• Junior Birch Herring-Jackson and Laderman each added a hit.
• Kerrigan took the loss as he went three-plus innings, allowing five hits, four runs (three earned), five walks and struck out two.

FOR THE BOMBERS

• Six different Bombers finished with two hits while eight different Ithaca hitters drove in a run.
• Colin Leyner earned the win as he threw six innings, giving up nine hits, one run, one walk and struck out three.

Game Two - Ithaca 9 Vassar 5

HOW IT HAPPENED

• Vassar struck first in the top of the first as Herring-Jackson led off with an opposite field single followed by a walk to Bergman. Lapekas sacrificed both runners up a base before Silvera knocked in Herring-Jackson with a sac fly.
• The Brewers added a run in the third as Lapekas was hit by a pitch followed by walks to Laderman and Milano and Lapekas came across to score on a passed ball.
• Vassar put up another run in the fourth as Greenhawt led off with a single and advanced to second on a wild pitch. Junior Finn Kaplan-Moore and Bergman both drew walks and Greenhawt came across to score on a fielder's choice groundout from Lapekas. Silvera lined a single to left field to drive home Kaplan-Moore to make it 4-0.
• Ithaca threatened in the fourth as Feeney led off with a bunt single followed by a walk drawn by McDonough. Following a double steal with two outs, sophomore Addison Lee stranded both runners with a strikeout to keep it 4-0 after four.
• The Bombers scratched out a run in the fifth as Curtis led off with a ground-rule double to left center and scored on a fielder's choice groundout from Shashaty.
• For the second straight inning, Ithaca had a leadoff double as Laney doubled to straight away center before first year Rohan Mishra entered and induced a pop out and two groundouts to keep the Bombers off the board.
• Vassar loaded the bases in the seventh after walks to Lapekas and Milano along with a hit by pitch of Silvera. The Brewers pushed a run across on a wild pitch with two outs to make it 5-1.
• Ithaca cut the lead to 5-4 in the seventh following a RBI single from Shashaty, a sac fly from Feeney and Shashaty came around to score on an error. 
• The Bombers evened the score at five all in the eighth on a RBI single from Feeney to score Rothstein.
• Ithaca walked it off in the bottom of the ninth as Curtis blasted a grand slam over the left field fence to win it 9-5.

FOR THE BREWERS

• Silvera finished with a hit and two RBI while Lapekas tallied a hit, two runs scored and a run batted in.
• Herring-Jackson, Bergman, M. Lee and Greenhawt each recorded a hit.
• A. Lee took the no decision as he went five-plus innings, allowing four hits, one run, three walks and struck out nine.
• Junior Luke Barrientos took the loss as he allowed two hits, two walks and four runs.

FOR THE BOMBERS

• Curtis finished the day with two hits, two runs and four RBI along with Shashaty adding three hits and two RBI.
• Feeney recorded two hits and two RBI while McDonough added two hits.
• Jack Picozzi started for Ithaca as he went three-plus innings, allowing four hits, three runs (two earned), four walks and struck out two.
• Conor Burns picked up the win with a scoreless ninth inning and struck out one.