CORTLAND, N.Y. –
Brandon Serio (Bedford Hills/Fox Lane) allowed three hits and one unearned run in seven and a third innings as Cortland opened SUNYAC Tournament play with a 14-5 win over Fredonia.
Cortland (34-2), the top seed and ranked first nationally in Div. III, will face third seed Brockport in a winner's bracket game Saturday at 1 p.m., while the fourth-seeded Blue Devils (14-18) will play second seed Oswego in an elimination game at 10 a.m. Saturday. Brockport defeated Oswego, 8-7, in Friday's second game.
Serio struck out five and walked none as he ran his record to 7-0 on the season.
Nick Hart (Fredonia) finished 4-for-4 with a sac fly, four RBI, two steals and two runs and
Mark DeMilio (Valhalla) went 2-for-3 with a triple, double, hit-by-pitch and two runs.
Adam Smith (Vestal) went 2-for-2 off the bench,
Anthony Simon (Suffern/Don Bosco Prep (NJ)) was 2-for-4 with two runs, and
Austin Clock (Niskayuna) doubled and drove in three runs.
Ciro Frontale was 2-for-4 with an RBI to lead Fredonia. Starter Jake Harford only lasted one inning and gave up four runs on four hits.
Cortland's four-run first inning started with a DeMilio triple and a Hart sac fly.
Conrad Ziemendorf (Penfield/Webster Schroeder) walked, Simon singled and Clock hit a two-run double.
Donny Castaldo (Mount Kisco/Fox Lane) drove in the final run with a groundout to second.
Hart singled in a run in the second to extend the lead to 5-0. Fredonia scored a run in the fourth on a Vincent Sherman single, an error and a RickyMendiola RBI groundout.
Cortland broke the game open with seven runs in the fifth. Clock drove in the first run with a sac fly, and two batters later
Matthew Michalski (Buffalo/St. Francis) grounded out to short to bring in a run.
Patrick Schetter (Beacon) followed with a two-run single, and after two batters were hit by pitches, Hart hit a two-run single and Ziemendorf singled in a run. The Red Dragons' final runs came on a wild pitch and
Sean Getman's (Oneonta) RBI groundout.
Fredonia scored four runs in the ninth with the benefit of two Cortland errors. Brian Castonguay drove in a run with an infield single, with an error on the play allowing another run to score. Quinn Danahy followed with an RBI groundout and Liam Kelly tripled in the last run.
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