AUBURNDALE, FLA. – The nationally seventh-ranked Cortland baseball team recorded a combined 26 runs on 33 hits in victories over RPI, 13-0, and Franklin & Marshall, 13-3, at the RussMatt Central Florida Invitational. The Red Dragons improved to 7-2 with the wins.
Cortland 13, RPI 0 (Box Score)
Brandon Serio (Bedford Hills/Fox Lane) allowed only two hits and a walk and struck out 12 batters in seven innings for the victory.
Matt Holling (Horseheads) pitched the final two innings to complete the shutout. He gave up one hit and three walks.
Twelve Red Dragons contributed to a 16-hit effort.
Anthony Iacomini (South Salem/John Jay-Cross River) was 2-for-4 with a walk and two RBI and
Max Rosing (Rockville Centre/South Side) went 2-for-4 with a triple, walk and RBI.
Vinny Bomasuto (Dunkirk) finished 2-for-5, including a two-run, inside-the-park home run, along with a walk.
Tim Panetta (Mount Kisco/Fox Lane) was 2-for-5 with a triple, RBI and two runs and
Pat Farina (Mahopac) hit a grand slam in the ninth in his lone at-bat to account for Cortland's final runs.
Jared Jensen took the loss for RPI (3-1) after allowing six hits, three walks and four runs in five innings. He struck out six batters.
Serio allowed only one baserunner over the first four innings on a hit batsman to start the third. RPI's first hits were back-to-back singles by Al Mersman and Nick Palmiero with one out in the fifth and the Engineers trailing 4-0. A bunt moved the runners to second and third, but Serio fanned the next batter to escape the jam. RPI also had runners on first and third with two outs in the ninth before Holling registered a groundout to end the game.
Cortland 13, F&M 3 (Box Score)
Cortland (7-2) led 3-0 before breaking the game open with six runs in the bottom of the fifth and three in the sixth.
Mathew Wild (Auburn) went 3-for-5 with a double and two RBI as one of five Red Dragons with multiple hits. In all, 11 Cortland players had at least one hit toward a 17-hit performance.
Rosing was 2-for-2 with a triple and RBI.
Adam Smith (Vestal),
Bryan Marotta (Clifton Park/Shenendehowa) and
P.J. Rinaldi (Bethel, CT) each finished 2-for-4. Smith doubled and drove in two runs and Iacomini had two RBI.
Garrett Hoag (Dansville) threw five innings for his first victory as a Red Dragon. He allowed only one hit – an Avery Attinson two-out single in the fifth – and one walk and struck out seven.
Rob Anderson was 2-for-4 with an RBI and two runs to pace the Diplomats (4-3). Starter Sean Cosgriff took the loss after allowing nine hits and nine runs, seven earned, in four and a third innings.
Rosing tripled in a run in the first, and Iacomini's two-run single in the third extended the lead to 3-0. Cortland's six-run fifth featured a Wild RBI single and a Smith two-run double.
Michael DeCarr (Syracuse/Westhill) and Farina hit back-to-back sacrifice flies in the sixth, followed later in the inning by a
Nick Hart (Fredonia) RBI single. Wild singled in Cortland's final run in the eighth.
Cortland will play Penn St. Abington Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. Also, the Red Dragons have added a game to their schedule – Cortland will play at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Va., on Sunday at 2 p.m. on their return trip to New York.
