CORTLAND, N.Y. -
Diane Cork (Wayland/Wayland-Cohocton) homered for the second straight day to break a tie in the bottom of the sixth inning as top-seeded Cortland outlasted fourth seed Oneonta, 9-7, during the second day of the SUNYAC softball tournament.
Cortland (33-9) was scheduled to face Geneseo in the winner's bracket final Friday afternoon, but rain halted the tournament during the third game of the afternoon. The tournament will resume Saturday at 10 a.m. with the completion of an elimination game between Plattsburgh and Buffalo State currently in the second inning. Cortland and Geneseo, which defeated Plattsburgh on Friday, are scheduled to play at noon.
The final game Saturday will be the Plattsburgh/Buffalo St. winner versus the Cortland/Geneseo loser at approximately 2 p.m. The championship round will now start Sunday at 11 a.m., with another game to follow, if needed.
Cortland took an early 2-0 lead in the second on an
Erin Wolstenholme (Oneonta) RBI double and an error that allowed a second run to scored after a
Stephanie Tirone (Amherst/Williamsville South) infield single. Oneonta's Jamie Whittam drove in a run in the third with an infield single, but Cortland answered in the bottom of the inning with a
Kaleigh Churchill (Camillus/West Genesee) sacrifice fly.
The teams traded runs again in each of the next three innings. Oneonta's fourth-inning run on a Dana DelGenio RBI single was matched by
Rosie Phillips' (Geneva/Our Lady of Mercy) RBI double. Oneonta plated three in the fifth, two on a DelGenio two-run single, in an inning that was helped by three Cortland errors. The Red Dragons rallied for three in their half of the fifth with no outs and nobody on. They loaded the bases with three walks, and pinch hitter
Skyler Hoyt (Endicott/Union-Endicott) hit a two-run single, with a third run scoring on the play due to a throwing error.
Oneonta tied the game in the sixth on Katie O'Gorman's two-out, two-run double. Cork led off the bottom of the sixth with her eighth homer of the season, and
Andrea Schoonmaker (Marlboro) provided an insurance run with an RBI single later in the inning. Oneonta opened the seventh with an Ashley Lefebvre single, but Wolstenholme at shortstop started a double play on a grounder, and a lineout ended the game.
The team combined for 25 hits - 14 by Oneonta and 11 by Cortland. Lefebvre went 3-for-4, DelGenio was 2-for-4 with three RBI, and Selena Ruiz was 2-for-4 with two runs scored for the guests. Whittam also went 2-for-4 with an RBI. For Cortland, Cork was 2-for-3 with a homer, double, walk and RBI, Wolstenholme finished 2-for-3 with a double, walk, RBI and three runs scored, and Schoonmaker ended 2-for-3 with a walk, RBI and two runs scored.
Alexandrea Flint (Dalton/Keshequa) earned the win as Cortland's second reliever. Now 15-3, Flint allowed two hits in an inning and two thirds of scoreless work.
Jamie Lachall (Philadelphia, PA/Sun Valley) started and gave up two runs, one earned, on six hits in three and two thirds innings.
Sam Van Dorn (Medford/Patchogue-Medford) pitched the next inning and two thirds and allowed five runs, all unearned, on six hits.
Sabrina DeAngelis started for Oneonta, was subbed for in the fourth, but re-entered in the sixth. She gave up six runs, four earned, on 11 hits in five total innings and took the loss.
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