VESTAL, N.Y. – Colgate pounded five home runs and eight doubles to power past Binghamton 15-11 in the opener, before falling to the Bearcats 13-5 in Game 2 of a doubleheader on Tuesday evening at the BU Sports Complex.
 
Colgate saw its record move to 13-17 on the season with the split, while Binghamton is now 12-15.
 
Colgate 15, Binghamton 11

Game 1 was an absolute slugfest with 30 combined hits, including 12 extra base hits and six home runs. Colgate tied the program record for home runs in a game with five, plus the Raiders legged out eight doubles in the win.
 
Colgate's bats were red-hot from the get-go. Meghan Romero set the tone with a solo shot to left center in the top of the first. Two batters later, after a Virginia Irby double, Jordan Miller mashed a two-run rocket over the wall in left and the Raiders stormed out to a loud 3-0 lead. 
 
After Binghamton answered with two runs in the home half of the first, Morgan Farrah cranked a double to left center to score two and push the Raider lead back to three runs at 5-2.
 
The Bearcats scored in each of the first three innings and eventually built a 9-5 lead after Hannah Lyons found a hole in right center for a two-run double in the bottom of the third.
 
The Raiders shot right back and tacked on four runs on the strength of three hits in the top of the fourth. Baillie Jorth led off with a single to right and came around to score on a fielding error, before Irby belted an RBI double to cut the deficit to 9-7. 
 
With Irby on second and two away, Miller smashed her second home run of the game -- a two-run no-doubter to dead center -- and the Raiders clawed all the way back to tie it up at 9-9.  
 
Binghamton did not go away just yet, as Lyons once again came through with a two-out, two-run single to give the home team the lead back 11-9 after four innings.
 
The Raider bats stayed hot and the Bearcats' lead would not hold. After a pair of zeroes in the fifth, Colgate fired back to score three runs in each of the last two innings. 
 
Farrah yanked a solo homer down the left field line to make it a one-run game, before Nicole Rounsavill joined the offensive onslaught with a two-out, two-run shot to center field to give the Raiders five home runs and the lead for good 12-11 in the sixth.
 
Back-to-back doubles from Christiana Cottrell and Romero added insurance runs in the seventh. Farrah drove in another run with her second hit in as many innings to give the Raiders a 15-11 cushion. 
 
Kaitlyn Borruso tossed a scoreless seventh to lock down the win for the Raiders. The first-year came on strong in relief to pitch the last four innings.
 
Borruso yielded two runs on six hits with two strikeouts, silencing the Bearcats down the stretch to secure her second straight win and improve to 3-2 on the year.
 
Binghamton's Rayn Gibson was tagged with the loss after allowing six runs on 10 hits over five innings of work. Lyons paced the Bearcats offensively with three hits and four RBI.
 
Binghamton 13, Colgate 5 (Five Innings)
 
Colgate carried over its momentum from Game 1 and jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the top of the first of Game 2.
 
Farrah roped a double to right center and Irby traded places with her to scratch the game's first run across. Rounsavill doubled the Raiders' lead on an RBI single.
 
Binghamton's first four runners reached base safely and the Bearcats capitalized to score two runs and tie the game at 2-2 in the bottom of the first.
 
Makayla Alvarez gave Binghamton its first lead in the third with a two-run homer. She put another one over the wall in an eight-run fourth that extended the Bearcats' lead to 13-2.
 
Colgate chipped away and scored three runs in the top of the fifth after Lauren La Terra drove in two with a double to left field.
 
The Raiders were looking for more with Mia Guevarra standing on third, but the Bearcats sealed the five-inning win with a flyout to end the game in a 13-5 final.
 
FROM THE SOURCE
• Colgate head coach Marissa Lamison-Myers:

"It was a tough day in the circle for us. We were having trouble staying consistent. Our offense really showed up in both games. We are hitting the ball extremely well right now and look to continue into the weekend."

KEY RAIDER NOTES
• Colgate popped five homers in a game for just the second time in school history, and first since April 17, 2004, in a 12-0 win over Lafayette.
• Miller became the first Raider to hit two home runs in a game since Nicole Siedhof in 2011.
• Eight of Colgate's 15 runs came off the long ball. 
• 13 of Colgate's 15 hits in Game 1 went for extra bases. 
• The Raiders shattered the program record with eight doubles in Game 1.
• The previous mark was five, most recently reached in 2001.
• Colgate's eight doubles came from six different players. Irby and La Terra led the way with two apiece.
• Eight Raiders finished with a hit in Game 1, led by three from Farrah.
• Farrah and Miller paced the Raiders offensively with four RBI apiece.
• Colgate finished with five more doubles in a strong offensive effort in Game 2.
• Rounsavill and La Terra had two hits and two RBI apiece in the nightcap.
• Farrah led the Raiders on the day, going 5-for-7 with three runs scored and four RBI. 
• La Terra finished the doubleheader with four hits, all going for extra bases. 

UP NEXT
• Colgate returns to Patriot League action this weekend at Army. 
• A doubleheader on Saturday kicks off the three-game series, with first pitch from West Point slated for noon.