CORTLAND, N.Y. – The nationally top-ranked Cortland baseball team concluded its regular-season schedule with a 12-8 non-league loss to visiting St. John Fisher College.
The Red Dragons (36-4) will return to action next Wednesday, May 13, at the NCAA Div. III Regional at Falcon Park in Auburn, N.Y. Cortland will serve as the host institution for the double-elimination regional, and the Red Dragons have already earned a playoff slot after winning the SUNYAC title last weekend. The NCAA tournament field will be announced on Monday, May 11.
St. John Fisher (23-17) finished with 25 hits as eight of the Cardinals' nine starters recorded two or more hits. Cal Woolhiser went 4-for-5 with a walk and three RBI and Matt Cahill ended 4-for-6 with an RBI. Mike Roman was 3-for-5 with three RBI, while Malcolm Kelsey and Joe Simmons each finished 3-for-6 with an RBI and two runs scored.
Anthony Simon (Suffern/Don Bosco Prep (NJ)) led Cortland's 13-hit attack by going 3-for-5 with two RBI.
Austin Clock (Niskayuna) and
Matt Personius (Binghamton/Chenango Valley) each were 2-for-4 with an RBI and
Donny Castaldo (Mount Kisco/Fox Lane) was 2-for-5 with a homer and two runs scored.
Kevin Berge earned the win for the Cardinals after allowing five hits and one run over the final four innings. He struck out three batters. Cortland used nine pitchers, with
Vinny Bomasuto (Dunkirk) taking the loss in relief.
St. John Fisher led 4-1 in the top of the second on a Cahill RBI single, a Woolhiser two-run single and a Roman sac fly. Cortland scored on an error in the second and took the lead with a five-run fourth that included a Simon two-run single.
The Cardinals posted single runs in the fifth and sixth, with Cortland scoring its final run in the bottom of the sixth on a Clock sac fly. Fisher started a four-run seventh with a Kelsey homer, with its last three runs coming on consecutive two-out RBI singles by Roman, Shane Barley and Scott Eisenmenger. The guests tacked on two insurance runs in the eighth on a Woolhiser bases-loaded walk and a Roman RBI infield single.
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