CENTER VALLEY, PA. - Junior Jamie Lachall (Philadelphia, PA/Sun Valley) threw a one-hitter as Cortland defeated DeSales University, 9-0 in six innings, to complete a non-league sweep of the Bulldogs. Cortland won the opener, 9-4, behind a complete game from junior Alexandrea Flint (Dalton/Keshequa).

Cortland improved to 11-3 while running its win streak to four games. DeSales, which eliminated Cortland in NCAA regional play last year in Cortland, dropped to 2-11 with the losses. Cortland will begin SUNYAC play next weekend with home doubleheaders Friday versus Geneseo at 3 p.m. and Saturday against Brockport at noon.
 
Cortland 9, DeSales 4

The game got off to a wild start as each team scored three times in the first inning before Cortland took the lead for good with five runs  in the top of the second. The squads each added a run in the third, and neither team scored the rest of the way.

Flint, now 6-1, gave up five hits and four runs, three earned, in seven innings. She struck out three and walked two. Niki Barbato (East Meadow/Holy Trinity) finished 2-for-3 with a double, walk and two RBI. Jamie Corradina (Dobbs Ferry) was 2-for-2 with two RBI, Diane Cork (Wayland/Wayland-Cohocton) ended 2-for-3 with two RBI and Rosie Phillips (Geneva/Our Lady of Mercy) was 2-for-2 with two runs scored.

Haley Frati and Sunny Greenberg each went 1-for-3 with an RBI for DeSales, with Frati also scoring twice. Madeleine Nasir and Brittany Hunter were also 1-for-3 each. DeSales starter Andrea Artesani allowed eight runs, four earned, in one-plus innings. Elisa Andrew gave up only one run on four hits in six innings and she retired the last 12 batters she faced.

Cortland scored three in the first on an error and RBI singles from Carrie Stoddard (Liverpool) and Corradina. DeSales knotted the game on a Frati RBI fielder's choice, an error, and a Greenberg RBI single.

RBI singles by Cork and Kaleigh Churchill (Camillus/West Genesee) gave Cortland a 5-3 lead in the second. Barbato followed with a two-run double and Corradina singled home a run to put the Red Dragons ahead 8-3. Cork added an RBI single in the top of the third, and DeSales scored on an error in the bottom of the third to finish the scoring.

Cortland 9, DeSales 0

Lachall's no-hit bid was broken up with one out in the bottom of the sixth inning, which ended up being the final frame as the game was halted by the eight-run rule prior to the seventh. She retired the first 13 batters she faced before Shannon McCann reached on an error in the fifth. Lachall got the next two hitters out to end the fifth, and she struck out the first batter of the sixth before Lyndsay Sotzman beat out a ball hit in front of home plate for the Bulldogs' first hit

Lachall closed out the game with a force out and a foul out for her third win in five decisions this spring. She finished with four strikeouts and no walks.

Mikayla Shade (Bethlehem) went 3-for-4 with a double to lead Cortland's 12-hit attack. Barbato was 2-for-4 with a double and three RBI and Cork recorded a double, three walks and two RBI in four trips to the plate.

Barbato singled home a run in the top of the first, and Cork's two-run double in the second extended the lead to 3-0. Cortland added four runs in the fifth on an Erin Wolstenholme (Oneonta) sac fly and a Skyler Hoyt (Endicott/Union-Endicott) pinch-hit, three-run home run. Barbato closed the scoring with a two-run double in the top of the sixth that set up the eight-run rule being implemented in the bottom of the inning.