HOBOKEN, N.J. – The Ithaca College baseball team swept Stevens Institute of Technology on Sunday afternoon at Dobbelaar Field in Hoboken, N.J. by scores of 4-2 and 14-5. Ithaca took the opener in walk-off fashion with a two-run home run from sophomore Webb Little and then blasted three more homer in the night cap to improve to 9-6 on the season and 2-2 in the Empire 8 Conference. Stevens drops to 10-11-1 overall and 4-2 in the Empire 8.

Game One: Ithaca 4, Stevens 2

The Bombers struck first in the opener on an RBI single by senior Ryan Henchey to left-center in the bottom of the first. W. Little scored from second after he reached on a walk and moved up a base on a wild pitch.

Stevens took the lead in the fourth inning with two runs on three hits. A walk and single got things started for the Ducks, and then another knock up the middle brought in a run from second base. Stevens' second run came home on a double down the left field line with two outs.

Ithaca tied the game up in the bottom half of the fourth on a single to the right-center gap by sophomore Adam Gallagher, which allowed Henchey to scamper home from second with one out. Prior to the run-scoring play, sophomore Sam Little singled but was thrown out at second trying to turn it into a two-base hit, and then Henchey doubled to center to set up Gallagher. The Bombers had a chance to add more in the frame as they loaded the bases, but a strikeout ended the inning.

In the bottom of the sixth, Ithaca put its first two batters on base, but was unable to capitalize, as a caught stealing retired the first out and then back-to-back strikeouts ended the frame.

W. Little ended Game One with a two-run walk-off home run that was a no-doubter to right-center with one out in the seventh. Junior Domenic Boresta reached on a bunt single and then moved up two bases after a pair of throwing errors by Stevens.

Sophomore Jake Binder improved to 3-0 on the season with a complete game performance. Binder surrendered five hits and two earned with three strikeouts in the victory.

Game Two:  Ithaca 14, Stevens 5

Stevens took a 1-0 lead on the first pitch of the game, as Michael Mule' sent the offering over the right field fence.

The Bombers tied the game up in their half of the first without recording a hit. Senior Josh Savacool led off with a walk and made his way over to third on an error. Two batters later, Savacool would score on a groundball to shortstop that was thrown wide of the first base bag.

The lead shifted back to the Ducks, 2-1, in the top of the second on a throwing error during a pick-off attempt with runners at the corners. Stevens tacked on another run in the third on a double to left.

In the fourth, Stevens loaded the bases on three straight walks with two outs. A pitching change brought in freshman Matt Eiel, and on the first pitch he threw, induced a groundball out to get out of the inning unscathed.

Ithaca took the lead in the bottom of the fourth with a two-out, four-run rally. Boresta tied the game up at 3-3 with a two-run double to the left-center gap that drove in sophomores Andrew Bailey and Matt Carey. One pitch later, Savacool roped a shot to left that clipped the top of the fence and went over for a two-run home run to give Ithaca a 5-3 advantage.

Stevens knotted the contest up at 5-5 in the seventh and threatened to add a few more, by loading the bases, but an inning-ending double play got the Bombers out of the jam and kept the nightcap deadlocked.

S. Little staked the Bombers to an 8-5 lead with a light-tower three-run blast in the bottom of the seventh with W. Little and Thompson on base. The Bombers added six more runs in the eighth inning, highlighted by a three-run homer by W. Little. Savacool started the rally with a two-run single to left and then Henchey doubled down the right field line to score Thompson from second to cap off the inning.

Bailey wound up as the pitch of record for Ithaca, improving to 2-1 on the season in 3.2 innings of relief. Bailey gave up one run on two hits and walked three. Freshman Tom Cosentino started the game and went 2.2 innings on the mound, allowing three runs (two earned) on four hits. Junior Chris Marinaccio tossed one inning of relief and freshman Matt Eiel accounted for the other 1.2 innings.

Ithaca heads to SUNY Brockport on Wednesday for a non-conference game at 4 p.m. and then battles Elmira College for three games on April 8-9 in Elmira.