NEW PALTZ, N.Y. - Junior Sarah Salamone (Liverpool/Cicero-North Syracuse) threw a three-hitter and junior Devynn Wilder (Oswego) hit a three-run homer as Cortland defeated New Paltz, 6-2, to salvage a SUNYAC doubleheader split with the host Hawks.

Cortland lost the opener, 5-4, as New Paltz (4-8, 1-1 SUNYAC) beat the Red Dragons for the first time since 1996. Cortland (12-8, 3-1 SUNYAC) will play a doubleheader Sunday at noon at league leader Oneonta (4-0 SUNYAC).

GAME 1: New Paltz 5, Cortland 4 (Box Score)

New Paltz led 5-2 after five innings and held on for the win in the opener. Katie Rutcofsky allowed seven hits and four runs, three earned, over seven innings to improve to 3-3. She struck out two and walked three. Chelsea Kull finished 2-for-2 with a walk and Jordan Fiore drove in two runs.

Alexandrea Flint (Dalton/Keshequa) started for Cortland and gave up eight hits over three innings. She walked one, struck out one and was charged with three runs. Amber Corrigan (Montgomery/Valley Central) went the next three innings and gave up two unearned runs on two hits and a walk.

Alicia Hibbard (Canastota) was 2-for-2 with an RBI and Makaylee Dowd (Saratoga Springs) went 2-for-2 with a run scored for the Red Dragons.

New Paltz scored single runs in the first three innings. Shayna Burgess led off the first with a triple and scored on a Kiersten Carlomagno sac fly. Nicole Angelo, who finished 2-for-3, doubled in the second and scored on a Rutcofsky RBI single, and in the third Kull singled and eventually scored on a Fiore RBI single.

Cortland scored without a hit in the second when Erin Wolstenholme (Oneonta) walked, moved up on a passed ball, took third on a groundout and scored on an error. Meaghan Kohler (Franklin, NJ/Warren Hills Regional) hit an RBI triple in the second but was stranded after Rutcofsky got the next three hitters out.

New Paltz went up 5-2 in the fifth on a Fiore RBI grounder and a Noelle Grande RBI single. Cortland mounted a rally in the sixth that started with singles by Wolstenholme and Dowd. After a strikeout and a fielder's choice force out, Diane Cork (Wayland/Wayland-Cohocton) doubled to drive in Dowd. Jamie Bucci (Tarrytown/Sleepy Hollow) and Hibbard were each hit by pitches, with the latter forcing in a run, but Rutcofsky got Kohler to pop-up to second to end the inning.

An error allowed the leadoff batter for Cortland to reach in the seventh. Dowd singled with one out to put runners on first and second. A fielder's choice resulted in the second out, but moved the potential tying run to third. Another fielder's choice, however, led to a force out at second on a close play to end the game.

GAME 2: Cortland 6, New Paltz 2 (Box Score)

Salamone upped her record to 5-0 after giving up three hits and two walks in a complete-game showing. She struck out three and allowed two runs.

Wilder staked Cortland to a 3-0 lead in the second with a two-out, three-run deep shot to left for her first career round-tripper. Kohler had led off the inning with a single and, following a sac bunt, Wolstenholme reached on an infield single.

Kull's two-run single in the third drew the Hawks within 3-2, and it stayed that way until the sixth when Wolstenholme walked with one out, went to second on a Wilder two-out single and scored on Courtney Kadish's (East Amherst/Williamsville North) pinch-hit RBI single to left.

The Red Dragons added two in the seventh on a Bucci infield single, a Hibbard RBI double, and an error after a single by Carrie Stoddard (Liverpool). New Paltz got a runner into scoring position in both the fifth and sixth innings but couldn't put any more runs on the board.

Wilder finished 2-for-3 with a run and three RBI, Cork was 2-for-4 with a double and Kohler went 2-for-4. Wolstenholme and Bucci were each 1-for-3 with a walk. Kull, Meg Brewer and Angelo each went 1-for-3 for New Paltz. Amber Carozza went the distance in the circle and allowed 12 hits and two walks with three strikeouts.