The Tompkins Cortland Community College baseball team ended the season with a split of a doubleheader with SUNY Broome on Wednesday, winning the opener 18-4 before dropping the finale 4-3. Tompkins Cortland ends the season with a record of 6-25 overall and 6-14 in the Mid-State Athletic Conference. Broome ends the year 5-31 overall and 3-17 in the MSAC.

Game One: Tompkins Cortland 18, Broome 4  (5 innings)

The Panthers pounded out 18 hits in just four innings of hitting in game one. Jeremy McGrath (Henderson Harbor/Belleville Henderson H.S.) was one of six Panthers with multiple hits, going a perfect 4-for-4 with a double, two runs scored and two runs driven in. Kannon VanDuzer (Sayre, Penn./Sayre Area H.S.), Caleb Thompson (Cortland/Cortland H.S.), and Frank Marra (Millstone Township, N.J./Allentown H.S.) each went 3-for-4, with VanDuzer posting three RBI. Dan Mrowinski (Syracuse/Solvay H.S.) and Jacob Bogacz (Morrisville/Morrisville-Eaton H.S.) each had two hits, including a triple by Bogacz.

Brenden Ryder (Roscoe/Roscoe H.S.) capped his college career with his best outing, earning the win by allowing just two earned runs over four innings of work. Mitch Shipman (Dryden/Dryden H.S.) worked the final inning to cap off the Panthers third win in the last five games.

Game Two: Broome 4, Tompkins Cortland 3

After knocking the ball all around the park in game one, things didn't come as easy in game two. Broome opened the game with three runs in the top of the first, taking advantage of two two-out errors to score the final two runs. The Panthers chipped away in the second with Marra scoring a run on a two-out single by Thompson. The third opened with Tim Bowerman (Spencerport/Spencerport H.S.) drawing a walk and Gabriel Gilbert (Guayaquil, Ecuador/Montessori H.S.) reaching on a single. An error allowed Bowerman to score and a sacrifice fly from Bogacz scored Gilbert to tie the score at 3-3.

The deadlock held over the next three innings, but in the seventh Broome pushed across the run without recording a hit, using a walk, two hit batters, and an error to take a 4-3 lead. The Panthers went down in order in the bottom of the seventh, giving the Hornets the split.

Thompson had another multi-hit game, going 2-for-3. Gilbert joined him with his own 2-for-3 effort.