ITHACA, N.Y. – The Ithaca College baseball team faced off against Stevens Institute of Technology in the third game of the three-game Empire 8 Conference season series at Freeman Field on Wednesday afternoon, defeating the Ducks, 5-0. The Bombers are now 17-5 overall and 10-1 in Empire 8 play, while Stevens drops to 11-14 and 8-4 in conference.
 
Senior Emmett Dunn recorded his best collegiate performance on the mound, going seven strong innings while striking out seven and giving up just one hit. Dunn is now 4-1 on the season with a conference-leading 1.43 ERA.
 
The Bombers jumped out to a quick 1-0 lead in the first inning after senior Webb Little crushed a solo home run to right-center field. The game would remain 1-0 until the bottom of the third inning when senior Garrett Snyder added an opposite field solo homer, extending the lead to 2-0.
 
Junior Buzz Shirley tacked on another run Ithaca after ripping a double down the right field line, scoring senior Sam Little, who walked to lead off the inning. Ithaca led 3-0 heading into the sixth inning.
 
The Bombers found themselves in their first jam of the game, when Stevens loaded the bases in the top half of the sixth inning after two walks and a hit by pitch, but Dunn recorded a huge two-out strikeout to end the inning and keep the shutout intact.
 
Shirley continued to swing a hot bat in the bottom of the sixth, roping his second double of the game to the right-center gap, which plated S. Little to extend Ithaca's lead to 4-0.

Junior Andrew Wollner accounted for the final RBI of the game for the Bombers in the bottom of the eighth with a run-scoring single through the right side to bring home Shirley.
 
Senior Matt Eiel would replace Dunn in the eighth inning. Stevens its second hit of the game in the eighth on a blooper that dropped in just out of the reach of W. Little at second base.
 
Eiel threw both the eighth and ninth innings, shutting the door and completing the fourth shutout of the year for the Bombers. Eiel struck out one batter in his appearance.
 
Shirley was 3-for-4 with two doubles and two RBI on the afternoon, while Snyder and W. Little also recorded multi-hit games with two hits apiece.

Ithaca is scheduled to take on St. John Fisher College at Freeman Field in a three-game Empire 8 series this weekend with the first game of the doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m. on Saturday.