Sophomore Tyler Clifford (Clifton Park, NY/Shenendehowa) tossed a solid game with six innings of work, two runs allowed and two strikeouts for The College at Brockport Baseball team Wednesday night but the Golden Eagles offense struggled and Ithaca posted a 3-1 victory in the non-conference game played at Onondaga Community College in Syracuse.

Ithaca (15-5) opened the scoring with a run in the bottom of the first inning. Brockport (11-9) responded with a run in the top of the second inning.

Brendon Swayne (Seaford, NY/Plainedge) opened the inning with a single up the middle and stole second. Mike Gianni (Jamesville, NY/Jamesville-Dewitt) lifted a fly ball to right field and Swayne was able to advance to third on the out. Shawn Peake (Liverpool, NY/Liverpool) sent a fly ball to centerfield and Swayne scampered home on the sacrifice fly for the only Brockport run.

In the bottom of the third, Ithaca scored to take a 2-1 lead and after three scoreless innings, added an insurance run in the seventh for the final score.

Brockport had a good chance to score in the fifth inning. With two outs in the fifth, Colin Grande (Clifton Park, NY/Shenendehowa) singled to centerfield and Anthony Barbetto (New City, NY/Clarkstown North) reached base on a fielding error. Kyle Tracy (Plainview, NY/Bethpage) was hit by pitch to load the bases but a fly out ended the threat.

The Golden Eagles loaded the bases again in the seventh inning but this time with no outs in the inning. Gianni beat out an infield single to start the inning. Peake singled to right field and Gianni advanced to third on the play. Grande bunted his way on base to load the bases. A strike out, pop out and a fly out by the next three Brockport batters ended the inning.

Clifford threw 76 pitches and induced 11 ground ball outs in the start with six hits – all singles - allowed and two walks. Zach Lander (Rochester, NY/Churchville-Chili) and Dakota Stackhouse (Warsaw, NY/Warsaw) pitched one inning each of relief.

Grande led the team with two hits, Peake was 1-for-3 with a run batted in.