CORTLAND, N.Y. – Sarah Salamone (Liverpool/Cicero-North Syracuse) and Katie Pitkin (Brownville/General Brown) combined on a four-hit shutout as Cortland defeated Oswego, 6-0, in the first game of a SUNYAC doubleheader. Cortland finished the sweep with a 13-7 win in the second game behind a 10-run first inning. Mikayla Shade (Bethlehem) finished the doubleheader a combined 5-for-7 with six RBI.

Cortland (21-9), ranked first in the latest NCAA Div. III Northeast Region rankings, is now in sole possession of first place in the SUNYAC standings with a 10-2 record. Fredonia (9-3) and Oneonta (7-3) split a doubleheader Friday, while Geneseo (7-3) and New Paltz (5-3) also have three conference losses.

Cortland will host non-league doubleheaders Saturday vs. RPI at noon and Sunday vs. Union at 1 p.m. The Red Dragons have six SUNYAC regular-season games left, starting next Wednesday with a home doubleheader against New Paltz.

Game 1: Cortland 6, Oswego 0 (Box Score)

Salamone improved to 5-3 after allowing two hits and two walks in four innings. Pitkin earned her first collegiate save with three innings of two-hit ball. She struck out three and walked one.

Shade and Diane Cork (Wayland/Wayland-Cohocton) each finished 2-for-3. Shade tripled and drove in two runs and Cork hit two doubles and scored twice.

Cortland scored single runs in each of the first three innings. Cork doubled with one out in the first and scored on a two-out error. Rosie Phillips (Geneva/Our Lady of Mercy) singled in a run in the second, and Niki Barbato (East Meadow/Holy Trinity) doubled with two outs in the third and scored on a Shade single.

In Cortland's three-run fifth, Bucci led off with a single, stole second, took third on a wild throw during the steal and scored on a wild pitch. Cork followed with a double and scored on Shade's one-out triple. Shade scored on a wild pitch to complete the scoring.

Oswego loaded the bases with one out in the second on an error, a Noelle White single and a one-out Dana Taglioni walk, but Salamone induced a pop-up and a fielder's choice to end the threat. The Lakers also had a chance to score in the third when Alexis Nasca doubled with two outs and a runner on first, but the Red Dragons threw out the runner at home to end the inning on a relay from right fielder Barbato to second baseman Phillips to Devynn Wilder (Oswego) at home.

Lisa O'Callaghan threw five innings for Oswego and allowed six runs, four earned, on nine hits. She struck out four and walked one.

Game 2: Cortland 13, Oswego 7 (Box Score)

Cortland opened a wild second game by sending 15 batters to the plate in its 10-run bottom of the first. The scoring started with a Cork RBI single and Barbato RBI double. Later, Barbato stole home after a Shade single, a wild pitch scored a run, and Wilder and Phillips followed with back-to-back run-scoring singles. A passed ball allowed another run to score, and Shade finished the scoring with a three-run double to left.

Oswego (3-15, 1-11 SUNYAC) plated two runs in the third on Melanie Klauser's squeeze bunt and Melissa Mulvaney's RBI single. The Lakers, however, were facing a potential eight-run rule against them when they came up in the top of the fifth. They stayed alive with a four-run rally that included a Klauser RBI double, a Mulvaney two-run single and a Nasca RBI fielder's choice and were within four at 10-6.

Cortland answered, however, with three runs in the bottom of the fifth and nearly ended the game on the eight-run rule anyway. Barbato doubled and scored on a Shade single, and four batters later Wilder hit a two-run single. Oswego escaped a bases-loaded situation to keep the game from ending.

The Lakers scored their final run in the seventh on a Nasca RBI infield single, but a runner was thrown out after rounding too far past third to end the game.

Shade finished 3-for-4 with four RBI and Wilder went 2-for-2 with three runs driven in. Barbato was 2-for-2 with two doubles, two walks and an RBI, Courtney Kadish (East Amherst/Williamsville North) ended 2-for-4 with a triple and Alicia Flanagan (Penfield) went 2-for-5 with two runs scored.

Mulvaney (3-for-4, three RBI) and Nasca (2-for-4, two RBI) combined for five of Oswego's eight hits. Klauser finished 1-for-3 with a double, two RBI and two runs.

Cortland starter Alexandrea Flint (Dalton/Keshequa) improved to 4-3 with the victory. She allowed six runs, two earned, over five innings. Flint gave up six hits, struck out one and walked none. Jamie Lachall (Philadelphia, PA/Sun Valley) allowed one unearned run on two hits with three strikeouts over the final two innings.