CLERMONT, FLA. - Nationally 13th-ranked Cortland lost a pair of contests at the NTC Spring Games with setbacks to Ripon College of Wisconsin, 4-1, and Bethany College of West Virginia, 4-2 in eight innings. The Red Dragons are 2-2 on the season.

Ripon 4, Cortland 1

Ripon led 4-0 after four innings on the way to its fourth win in as many games this season. Stephanie Rieuwpassa allowed seven hits and one unearned run for the victory. She struck out five and walked one.

Rieuwpassa also contributed offensively by going 1-for-3 with two RBI. Anita Robinson was 1-for-1 with two walks and an RBI and Alli Jensen went 1-for-3 with a triple and an RBI.

Cortland sophomore Morgan Kuhn (Wayland/Wayland-Cohocton) suffered the loss in her first collegiate start. She gave up three hits and one run, struck out two and walked two in three innings. Junior Lyndsay Rowell (Sandy Creek) allowed three hits and three runs, fanned three and walked two over three innings of relief. Junior Jessica Harman (Penfield) finished 2-for-3 as the lone Cortland player with multiple hits.

Ripon took the lead in the first on a one-out Jensen RBI triple. The Red Hawks added three in the fourth on a Robinson RBI single and Rieuwpassa's two-run single.

Cortland got on the board in the fourth. Brooke Weidman (Wayland/Wayland-Cohocton) singled and Donnalyn Cross (Binghamton/Chenango Valley) reached on an error. Lucia Meola (Liverpool/Cicero-North Syracuse) sacrificed the runners up a base and Weidman scored on an Abby Martin (Oswego) sacrifice fly.

Bethany 4, Cortland 2 (8 inn.)

Cortland held a 1-0 lead over the Bison through five innings. The Red Dragons scored in the bottom of the fourth when Harman led off with a single, moved to second on a wild pitch, advanced to third on a Lorraine Stoddard (Liverpool) single and scored on a two-out Weidman RBI single.

Bethany (5-1) tied the game in the top of the sixth with an unearned run. A leadoff error, a sacrifice and a groundout put a runner on third for Andrea Thomas, who followed with a bloop RBI single to left.

The NCAA tiebreaker rule, which places a runner on second base to start the inning, was implemented at the start of the eighth. A throwing error on a sacrifice bunt allowed Bethany to score its first run, and the Bison added two more tallies on RBI singles by Maria Vallone and Elizabeth Kletzli.

In Cortland's half of the eighth, Meola started on second and moved to third on a wild pitch. Martin's infield single drove in Meola, and a throwing error on the play allowed her to move to second. Bethany pitcher Cortney Newland, however, retired the next three batters on a strikeout and two groundouts to end the game.

Newland scattered nine hits and allowed one earned run over eight innings for the victory. Valone and Thomas each finished 2-for-3 with an RBI.

Rowell went the distance for Cortland. She did not allow any earned runs and gave up seven hits in eight innings. Rowell fanned five batters and walked one. Martin and Stoddard were each 2-for-4.

Cortland will continue play in Clermont on Tuesday with games versus Transylvania of Kentucky at 9:30 a.m. and Lawrence of Wisconsin at 11:30 a.m.

Box Score vs. Ripon
Box Score vs. Bethany