PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Interstat) — Brown crushed Cornell 16-4 on Saturday, April 25, in the first game of an Ivy League doubleheader at Murray Stadium. The Bears improved to 19-14 while the Big Red fell to 8-24.

DJ Dillehay led Brown, going 2 for 4 with a home run and five RBIs. Logan Meusy finished 3 for 4 with three RBIs, and Mark Henshon was 4 for 6 with three RBIs. Brown pounded 13 hits, while Cornell managed five.

Dillehay’s two-run homer in the first inning put Brown ahead 2-0. Cornell tied it in the third with a groundout RBI and added a sacrifice fly in the fourth for a 4-4 deadlock. Brown took control with four runs in the fourth, keyed by a walk, a hit-by-pitch and Meusy’s sacrifice fly. The Bears erupted for five more in the sixth, including RBI singles by Dillehay and Henshon, and a sacrifice fly by Andrew Hanlon. Brown added three in the eighth on Dillehay’s sacrifice fly and RBI singles by Meusy and Henshon.

Brown pitchers Camren Piwnicki (four innings, five hits, zero earned runs, five strikeouts) and Peter Dubie (four innings, two earned runs) held Cornell. Big Red pitchers Max Foster, Josh Shea and Alex Stoyer combined for 2 1/3 scoreless innings. Cornell scored twice unearned in the ninth on a sacrifice fly and a bases-loaded walk.