EWING, N.J. – Alexandrea Flint (Dalton/Keshequa) and Jamie Lachall (Philadelphia, PA/Sun Valley) each recorded wins and Sam Van Dorn (Medford/Patchogue-Medford) earned saves in both games as Cortland swept The College of New Jersey in a non-league doubleheader.
 
The Red Dragons improved to 9-3 with the wins. Cortland will play a doubleheader Saturday at noon (an hour earlier than originally scheduled) at DeSales University in Pennsylvania.
 
Cortland 3, TCNJ 1
 
Flint improved to 5-2 after throwing four and a third innings of three-hit ball. Despite walking five batters, Flint allowed only one run. Van Dorn entered with one out and two on in the fifth and gave up only one hit and no runs over the final two and two thirds innings for the save.
 
Diane Cork (Wayland/Wayland-Cohocton) finished 2-for-3 with a walk and RBI and Jamie Bucci (Tarrytown/Sleepy Hollow) was 2-for-4 with two runs scored. For TCNJ, Katie Hourihan suffered the loss after giving up seven hits and three walks in five innings. She allowed two runs and struck out two.
 
Cortland went up 1-0 in the first when Bucci singled, was bunted to second by Andrea Schoonmaker (Marlboro) and scored on Kaleigh Churchill's (Camillus/West Genesee) two-out RBI single. The Lions answered in the bottom of the first on a Steph Vuono walk, a Deanna Utter bunt single, a Jess Santelli sac bunt and a Gaby Bennett RBI single.
 
The Red Dragons took the lead for good in the third. Bucci singled with one out, stole second with two outs and scored on a Cork single to left. TCNJ threatened in the fifth after Vuono and Utter drew one-out walks. Van Dorn entered and got a pair of groundouts to maintain the lead.
 
Cortland added a key insurance run in the seventh. Van Dorn got on via a one-out infield single. Schoonmaker re-entered to run for Van Dorn, went to second on a wild pitch, and moved to third on a Cork single. Churchill struck out for the second out, but on the play Cork started toward second. TCNJ threw to the shortstop, who then tried to throw back to get Cork at first but instead threw the ball away to allow a run to score.
 
Cortland 7, TCNJ 3
 
Cortland trailed 3-2 before Erin Wolstenholme (Oneonta) hit a two-run double in the top of the sixth to give the Red Dragons the lead. The inning started with a one-out Niki Barbato (East Meadow/Holy Trinity) double. Skyler Hoyt (Endicott/Union-Endicott) hit a two-out pinch hit single to move pinch runner Alissa De Padua (Milford, PA/Delaware Valley) to third and set up Wolstenholme's base-clearing double to left center.
 
The Red Dragons led 2-0 early on single runs in the second and third innings. Barbato led off the second with a double and eventually scored on a Wolstenholme sacrifice fly. In the third pinch hitter Chelsea Palma (Holbrook/Sachem North) walked with one out and went to second on a Cork single. Schoonmaker re-entered to run at second and scored on Churchill's single up the middle.
 
TCNJ went ahead with three runs in the fourth. After a Kristen Fitzsimmons bunt single, Utter put down a sac bunt and reached on an error. Bennett's sac bunt moved the runners to second and third and Madison Levine hit a two-run double to tie the game. She went to third on the play on an error in the outfield and scored on Jess Stevenson's fielder's choice.
 
After Cortland regained the lead in the sixth, the Red Dragons sealed the win with three runs in the seventh on a Schoonmaker triple, a Cork hit-by-pitch, RBI singles by Churchill and Barbato, and a passed ball that allow the last run to score.
 
Lachall, now 2-2, retired the first eight batters she faced before allowing a bunt single in the third. In five and a third innings she gave up five hits and no walks, struck out one, and gave up three runs, one earned. Van Dorn finished the game with one and two thirds innings of scoreless relief for her second save of the day and third of the season. She permitted two hits and fanned one.
 
Barbato finished 3-for-4 with two doubles and an RBI and Schoonmaker was 2-for-3 with a triple, double and two runs scored. Churchill finished 2-for-4 with two RBI and Wolstenholme ended 1-for-3 with a double and three RBI.
 
Vuono and Fitzsimmons each went 2-for-4 and Levine drove in two runs for TCNJ (10-7). Ashtin Helmer started in the circle and allowed eight hits and four runs in five and two thirds innings. She struck out two and walked two.