OSWEGO, N.Y. - Erin Wolstenholme (Oneonta) hit a solo homer to lead off the top of the seventh to break a 7-7 tie and Cortland defeated host Oswego, 9-7, in the opening game of a SUNYAC doubleheader. The Red Dragons completed the sweep with an 11-5 victory in Game 2 with their second straight 16-hit game.

Cortland improved to 20-4 overall to reach the 20-win mark for the 20th straight year, and the Red Dragons currently lead the SUNYAC with a 9-1 league mark. Cortland returns to action on Tuesday with a 3 p.m. non-league doubleheader at nationally 20th-ranked St. John Fisher.

Cortland 9, Oswego 7

Cortland led 6-1 entering the bottom of the fifth, but Oswego scored three times in both the fifth and sixth innings, sandwiched around a Cortland run in the sixth, to tie the game at 7-7. Wolstenholme broke that tie with her third home run of the season, and the Red Dragons added an insurance run later in the seventh on a Niki Barbato (East Meadow/Holy Trinity) RBI single.

The Red Dragons led 4-0 in the second on a Rosie Phillips (Geneva/Our Lady of Mercy) two-run double, a Jamie Bucci (Tarrytown/Sleepy Hollow) RBI single and, two batters later, a Barbato RBI single. The lead extended to 5-0 in the third on a Stephanie Tirone (Amherst/Williamsville South) squeeze bunt.

Alexis Nasca led off the bottom of the fourth for Oswego with a double and eventually scored on a Melanie Klauser RBI single, but Cortland got that run back on Tirone's RBI single in the top of the fifth.

Oswego started its rally with three in the fifth on a Nasca sac fly, a Gabriella Vertuccio RBI double and a Sarah McCullough RBI single. Cortland put up a run in the sixth on Mikayla Shade's (Bethlehem) RBI double, but the Lakers tied the game on a Jacquie Porrreca two-run single and a Nasca sac fly.

Diane Cork (Wayland/Wayland-Cohocton) finished 3-for-4 with a double and a walk and Shade was 3-for-5 with two doubles, an RBI and two runs. Phillips ended 2-for-3 with a double, walk, two RBI and two runs and Bucci went 2-for-3 with a walk and RBI. Also for the Red Dragons, Barbato finished 2-for-4 with two RBI and Wolstenholme went 2-for-4 with an RBI.

Oswego ended the game with 14 hits, led by 3-for-4 performances from Erin Sweeney and Tori Trovato. Sweeney doubled and scored twice. Porreca finished 2-for-4 with two RBI and Nasca was 1-for-2 with two RBI.

Alexandria Flint (Dalton/Keshequa) started for Cortland and allowed four runs, two earned, in four and a third innings. Sam Van Dorn (Medford/Patchogue-Medford) earned the win after giving up three runs over the last two and two thirds innings. She is now 4-0 on the year. Brittany Sears went the distance for Oswego and is now 4-6.

Cortland 11, Oswego 5

Cortland got off to another quick start with five runs in the top of the first to quickly knock out Oswego starter Alexandria Connelly. Five of the first six batters reached, including Kaleigh Churchill (Camillus/West Genesee) with an RBI double, Shade with an RBI single and Andrea Schoonmaker (Marlboro) with a two-run double. Nasca came in to relieve and got the second out before allowing an RBI double by Jamie Corradina (Dobbs Ferry).

Claire Hewitt's RBI single put Oswego on the board in the second. Cortland tallied a run in the third on Carrie Stoddard's (Liverpool) pinch-hit RBI single, and the Red Dragons went up 7-1 in the top of the fifth on a Corradina RBI single.

Oswego got a run back in the bottom of the fifth on a Porreca RBI single, but left runners on second and third. Cortland went up 8-2 in the sixth on Skyler Hoyt's (Endicott/Union-Endicott) pinch-hit homer, and the Red Dragons pushed their advantage to 11-2 in the seventh on Corradina's RBI groundout and Cork's two-run single. The hosts closed the scoring with three in the bottom of the seventh - one on a Sweeney RBI double and two on an error. A lineout double play with runners on first and second ended the game.

Schoonmaker went 3-for-4 with a double, two RBI and two runs and Wolstenholme was 3-for-4 with two runs scored. Corradina finished 2-for-3 with a walk, double and three RBI and Hoyt went 2-for-2 with a homer and double in her two plate appearances. Cork was 2-for-5 with two RBI to extend her on-base streak to 22 games. Jamie Lachall (Philadelphia, PA/Sun Valley) improved to 6-3 with a complete-game effort. She allowed five runs, three earned.

Hewitt led Oswego (10-10, 4-6 SUNYAC) by going 2-for-3 with an RBI and Porreca was 1-for-2 with two walks and an RBI. Connelly was charged with the loss after giving up five runs in a third of an inning. Nasca pitched the final six and two thirds innings.