WASHINGTON, D.C. – A total of seven Cortland pitchers combined for two shutouts as the nationally third-ranked Red Dragons swept host Gallaudet University, 9-0 and 7-0, in a non-league doubleheader. Cortland improved to 4-0 with the victories in the pair of seven-inning contests.
 
Cortland will play at North Carolina Wesleyan Thursday at 4 p.m. on its way to Florida. The Red Dragons have 10 games on their Florida slate, starting with contests versus Marietta and Salem State Saturday in Port Charlotte. For the first time Cortland will play SUNYAC games in Florida with a three-game slate against New Paltz to conclude the trip March 20-21.
 
Game 1: Cortland 9, Gallaudet 0 (Box Score)

Junior Alex Weingarten (East Rockaway/Lynbrook) earned the win in the opener with five innings of two-hit ball. He struck out seven and walked one. Sophomore Patrick Healy (Massapequa) struck out two batters in a hitless sixth and freshman Jason Martin (Turin/South Lewis) gave up one hit and fanned one in the seventh.
 
Junior Vinny Bomasuto (Fredonia) and freshman Connor Manderson (New Hartford) each went 2-for-3 with an RBI. Junior Conrad Ziemendorf (Penfield/Webster Schroeder) doubled, drove in a run and scored three times, while senior Anthony Simon (Suffern/Don Bosco Prep (NJ)) and sophomore Sean Getman (Oneonta) each drove in two runs.
 
Junior Brandon Holsworth, the North Eastern Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Year each of the last two seasons, started for the host Bison and allowed five hits and four runs, three earned, in five innings. He struck out three and walked four.
 
Cortland led 2-0 before breaking the game open with seven runs in the top of the sixth. The Red Dragons got on the board in the first when Ziemendorf reached on an error and eventually scored on a passed ball. Cortland's run in the fifth came on a two-out Simon bases-loaded walk.
 
Cortland's big sixth inning featured a Manderson RBI single and Ziemendorf forcing in a run by being hit by a pitch with the bases loaded. Bomasuto and Simon each plated runs with sacrifice flies and Getman added a pinch-hit, two-run double. The final run scored on an error.
 
Gallaudet did not have any runners reach second base in the contest. Zack Crawford finished 1-for-2, while Mitchell Bensman and Justin Strong were each 1-for-3.
 
Game 2: Cortland 7, Gallaudet 0 (Box Score)
 
Four pitchers, in a predetermined rotation, combined for the shutout in the nightcap. Junior Seth Lamando (Hopewell Junction/Roy C. Ketcham) started and earned the win with two innings of two-hit work. He struck out four and walked none. Junior Turner Parry (Camillus/West Genesee) allowed one hit and three walks and struck out four in two innings, followed by Bomasuto fanning three in two hitless innings. Junior Adam Brant (Staatsburg/Our Lady of Lourdes) wrapped the game with a hitless seventh.
 
Senior Mark DeMilio (Valhalla) led the Red Dragons' 12-hit attack by going 2-for-3 with two triples, an RBI and two runs scored. Freshman Justin Teague (Syracuse/Cicero-North Syracuse) finished 2-for-3 with a run and Bomasuto was 2-for-4 with an RBI. Freshman Ralph Nuzzi (Mount Kisco/Fox Lane) also went 2-for-4 and freshman Patrick Schetter (Beacon) drove in two runs.
 
Dylan Hayes finished 1-for-2 for Gallaudet, and Bensman and Brad Stockdill were each 1-for-3. Starter Blake Phillips took the loss after surrendering nine hits, two walks and five runs in three innings.
 
Cortland jumped out early with three in the first on a DeMilio triple, a Nick Hart (Fredonia) RBI single and, later in the frame, Schetter's two-run double. A two-run second featured a DeMilio RBI triple and a Bomasuto run-scoring single.
 
The Red Dragons tacked on two runs in the fifth on junior Keith Andrews' (Commack) sacrifice fly and junior Connor Griffin's (Cortland) RBI double.
 
Gallaudet's best threat came in the third. Chase Magsig walked, and with one out stole second and took third on a passed ball. Parry, however, struck out two of the next three batters, sandwiched around a walk, to end the threat.