ITHACA, N.Y. - Ithaca's Kelly Robichaud hit a walk-off homer to lead off the bottom of the seventh inning and Allison Macari threw a two-hit shutout as the nationally 23rd-ranked Bombers defeated Cortland, 1-0, in the second game of a non-league doubleheader. Ithaca (24-6) also won the first game, 2-0, behind Laura Quicker's six-hit shutout.

Cortland (20-8) returns home for four scheduled doubleheaders in a five-day stretch. The Red Dragons will host Plattsburgh Friday at 3 p.m. and Potsdam Saturday at noon in SUNYAC action, followed by non-league twinbills against Rochester Sunday at 1 p.m. and Nazareth next Tuesday at 3 p.m.

Ithaca 2, Cortland 0

Ithaca was victorious despite Cortland pitchers Alexandrea Flint (Dalton/Keshequa) and Sam Van Dorn (Medford/Patchogue-Medford) allowing only a combined two hits. Flint gave up one hit and two runs, one earned, with five walks and three strikeouts to take the loss. Van Dorn allowed one hit and two walks in two scoreless frames. Quicker earned her 12th win in 14 decisions this spring. She struck out five and walked two in addition to allowing six hits.

The Bombers scored in the third with the benefit of a hit to take a 1-0 lead. Emily Bloom led off with a walk and Nikkey Skuraton walked with one out. A fielder's choice force out put runners on first and third with two outs. Casey Gavin then walked, but Cortland mistakenly threw to second base not knowing it was a walk. The wild throw to second allowed Bloom to score from third.

The first Ithaca hit was a two-out homer down the left field line by Hannah Anderson in the fourth. Erin McQuillan registered the other hit for the Bombers with a single in the sixth.

Cortland had baserunners in six of seven innings but couldn't get on the scoreboard. The first two batters reached for the Red Dragons in the fifth on a Rosie Phillips (Geneva/Our Lady of Mercy) single and a Jamie Bucci (Tarrytown/Sleepy Hollow) walk, but Quicker escaped with a strikeout, a fielder's choice and a groundout. In the seventh, Stephanie Tirone (Amherst/Williamsville South) led off with a single and pinch hitter Skyler Hoyt (Endicott/Union-Endicott) was hit by a pitch with one out. The Bombers, however, turned a grounder to third into a game-ending double play.

Andrea Schoonmaker (Marlboro) went 2-for-3 and Bucci was 1-for-2 with a walk for Cortland. Skuraton reached base on three walks and McQuillan went 1-for-2 with a walk for the hosts.

Ithaca 1, Cortland 0

Macari and Cortland starter Jamie Lachall (Philadelphia, PA/Sun Valley) locked horns in a pitching duel before Robichaud ended the game with her solo shot to left center. Macari struck out four and walked none in her two-hitter to improve to 7-3. Lachall gave up only four hits with no walks and fanned two but dropped to 6-5.

Cortland's two hits were a leadoff infield single by Bucci in the first and an Erin Wolstenholme (Oneonta) single in the seventh. Jessie Fleck went 2-for-2 to account for half of Ithaca's four hits.

Cortland moved a runner to third base in the sixth when Jamie Corradina (Dobbs Ferry) reached on an error, moved to second on Phillips' sac bunt and took third on a groundout. Macari got a pop-up to end the threat. The Red Dragons mounted another serious scoring chance in the seventh. With one out, Kaleigh Churchill (Camillus/West Genesee) reached second on a dropped fly ball. Wolstenholme singled through the left side to put runners on first and third, and Wolstenholme stole second during the next at-bat. Both runners were stranded, however, after a foul pop-up and a strikeout.

Prior to the seventh, Ithaca had runners reach second three times - with two outs in the first and fifth innings and with one out in the third. Lachall got flyouts in the first and fifth and a fielder's choice and a strikeout in the third to keep the game scoreless.

Diane Cork (Wayland/Wayland-Cohocton) went 1-for-4 in the first game to extend her on-base streak to 25 games, but that streak ended in the second game as she finished 0-for-2 with a sac bunt in three plate appearances.