FREDONIA, N.Y. – Alicia Hibbard (Canastota), Diane Cork (Wayland/Wayland-Cohocton) and Devynn Wilder (Oswego) each homered and Sarah Salamone (Liverpool/Cicero-North Syracuse) threw a two-hitter as Cortland defeated Fredonia, 13-1, to salvage a split of a league doubleheader.
 
Fredonia (8-13, 5-7 SUNYAC) defeated the Red Dragons (19-13, 10-4 SUNYAC) in the opener, 7-3. Cortland is now a half game behind Oneonta (10-3 conference) in the league standings. Cortland has four league games remaining – two home Monday versus Potsdam at 2 p.m. and two at Oswego April 26. Oneonta has a continuation of a suspended game versus Oswego left along with four other league games – two each at home versus Buffalo State and Fredonia.
 
Game 1: Fredonia 7, Cortland 3 (Box Score)
 
Fredonia scored three unearned runs in the first and added four runs in the fourth to take a 7-0 lead. Cortland rallied for two runs in the fifth and a run in the sixth, but left two runners on in the sixth and managed only one baserunner in the seventh.
 
Each team finished with 10 hits. Erin Mushtare was 2-for-3 with two RBI and Kim Lotocki was 2-for-4 with an RBI and two runs to lead the Blue Devils. For Cortland, Hibbard went 2-for-3 with a walk and RBI, Courtney Kadish (East Amherst/Williamsville North) was 2-for-4 with an RBI and Jamie Bucci (Tarrytown/Sleepy Hollow) finished 2-for-4.
 
Amber Corrigan (Montgomery/Valley Central) took the loss. She allowed five runs, two earned, in three innings on five hits. She walked one and struck out two. Alyssa Brognano earned the win despite allowing seven hits and five walks in five innings. She gave up three runs, two earned, and fanned two. Kelsey Gannett pitched two scoreless innings with three hits allowed and six strikeouts.
 
A leadoff error in the bottom of the first led to Fredonia's three runs. Jess Lauck doubled in a run and Mushtare followed with a two-run single. The Blue Devils' fourth inning featured RBI singles by Madeline Medina, Kate Nicholson and Lotocki, with an error allowing the fourth run to score.
 
Cortland scored in the fifth on an Erin Wolstenholme (Oneonta) RBI single and a Kadish RBI groundout. Hibbard singled in a run in the sixth.
 
Game 2: Cortland 13, Fredonia 1 (Box Score)
 
Salamone upped her record to 9-2 with the complete-game victory in the nightcap. She allowed only singles to Cherise Gunnell in the second and Lauck in the fifth, and two of her three walks came in the seventh when Fredonia scored without the aid of a hit.
 
Wolstenholme led off the third with a double and scored from third on Cork's two-out RBI single. In the fifth, Rosie Phillips (Geneva/Our Lady of Mercy) led off with a single and Bucci and Cork each walked to load the bases. Meaghan Kohler (Franklin, NJ/Warren Hills Regional) followed with a sacrifice fly to right for her school-record 140th career RBI. Hibbard then hit a three-run homer to give Cortland a 5-0 lead.
 
Cortland sent 14 batters to the plate in a wild seventh inning as the Red Dragons pushed across eight runs. Cork started the scoring with a two-run homer, followed one out later by back-to-back doubles by Hibbard and Carrie Stoddard (Liverpool). Wilder then hit a two-run homer to give Cortland a 10-0 lead. Later in the inning, Mikayla Shade (Bethlehem) and Kaleigh Churchill (Camillus/West Genesee) hit back-to-back RBI doubles, and the final run scored on a wild pitch.
 
Fredonia broke up Salamone's shutout bid when Kristiana Pavone was hit by a pitch, Lauck and Mushtare drew one-out walks and Medina hit an RBI fielder's choice grounder.
 
Cork finished 2-for-3 with a walk, three RBI and two runs and Hibbard went 2-for-4 with a walk, three RBI and two runs. Bucci was 2-for-3 with a walk and two runs and Wilder drove in two runs and finished 1-for-3 with a walk. Gannett allowed 11 hits and 10 runs in six and a third innings with three walks and three strikeouts.
 
The doubleheader featured both teams wearing uniforms with pink in them as part of Fredonia's Strikeout Cancer Day. Money raised at the game, along with money raised by Cortland last week in a home doubleheader versus Brockport, will go to the Alex Hollander Education Fund. Alex is the son of the late Sandy Hollander, Buffalo State's former softball head coach who passed away from cancer in 2012.