Diane Cork drew her school-record 83rd career walk and hit a two-run HR in Game 1, and registered her 200th career hit in Game 2
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Box Score 2 CORTLAND, N.Y. -
Diane Cork (Wayland/Wayland-Cohocton) became the sixth player in school history to reach 200 career hits and also broke the school record for career walks as Cortland swept visiting Potsdam in a SUNYAC doubleheader. The Red Dragons won the opener, 4-2, as Cork hit a two-run homer to break a 2-2 tie in the bottom of the fourth. Cortland won the nightcap in five innings, 8-0, with all eight runs coming in the bottom of the third.
Cortland (24-8, 13-1 SUNYAC) currently leads Oneonta (9-5) and Plattsburgh (8-4) in the league standings with four league games remaining. The Red Dragons can clinch the SUNYAC regular-season title with one win next weekend at either Oneonta or New Paltz. Cortland will host Rochester Sunday at 1 p.m. in a non-league doubleheader.
Cork went a combined 3-for-5 in the doubleheader to exactly reach 200 hits. Her walk in Game 1 was the 83rd of her career, surpassing the school mark of 82 by Lucia Meola, her former teammate, from 2010-13. Cork's home run is her team-high fourth of the season and 29th of her career, two shy of the school record of 31 set by another former teammate, Meaghan Kohler, from 2011-14.
Between games of the doubleheader, Cortland honored its four seniors - Cork,
Jamie Bucci (Tarrytown/Sleepy Hollow),
Carrie Stoddard (Liverpool) and
Erin Wolstenholme (Oneonta).
Cortland 4, Potsdam 2
Cortland took the lead for good in the bottom of the fourth when Bucci singled with two outs and Cork homered to left. Potsdam led 1-0 in the top of the second on an Alexis Lerman solo homer, but the Red Dragons put up two runs in the bottom of the frame on an
Andrea Schoonmaker (Marlboro) single and steal, a Wolstenholme RBI double, a
Stephanie Tirone (Amherst/Williamsville South) sac bunt and, two batters later, a Bucci RBI triple.
Potsdam tied the game in the top of the fourth and threatened to take the lead. Lerman singled with one out and stole second. She went to third on an error and scored on Brooke Falsion's two-out RBI single. A Falsion steal put runners on second and third, but Cortland starter
Alexandrea Flint (Dalton/Keshequa) induced a flyout to keep the game tied.
The Bears' other serious scoring threat came in the sixth. With two outs, Samantha Cohn reached on an error and Angela Yodis walked.
Sam Van Dorn (Medford/Patchogue-Medford) entered in relief and initially allowed a single to load the bases, but struck out the next hitter to escape the jam. Van Dorn retired the side in order in the seventh for her fourth save of the season.
Flint improved to 11-2 with the victory. She allowed five hits and two runs, one earned, in five and two thirds innings. She fanned two batters and walked three. Potsdam's Sami Hubinsky allowed 11 hits and four runs in six innings with one walk and one strikeout.
Schoonmaker finished 3-for-3 and Bucci went 3-for-4 with an RBI to lead Cortland's 11-hit attack.
Kaleigh Churchill (Camillus/West Genesee) was 2-for-3, while Cork finished 1-for-2 with two RBI. She broke the walks record with two outs in the bottom of the sixth. For Potsdam, Lerman and Falsion each went 2-for-3 with an RBI, with Lerman scoring twice.
Cortland 8, Potsdam 0 (5 inn.)
Cortland scored eight times in the bottom of the third on a combination of five hits, a walk, a hit batter, and three Potsdam errors. Cork led off the inning with a double, and came up again later and hit an RBI single for her 200th career hit. Other notable plays in the inning included a successful Schoonmaker squeeze bunt to drive in a run, a Wolstenholme RBI groundout, a
Rosie Phillips (Geneva/Our Lady of Mercy) sac fly, and a
Niki Barbato (East Meadow/Holy Trinity) two-run double.
Jamie Lachall (Philadelphia, PA/Sun Valley) recorded eight straight outs to start the game before allowing a Falsion infield single and a Jordan Ott single in the third. Potsdam tried a first-and-third play in an attempt to break the then-scoreless tie, but the Red Dragons executed perfectly on defense and caught Falsion off third base to end the inning. Potsdam also had two runners reach in the fifth, but the first was erased on a pop-up double play, and a groundout ended the game on the eight-run rule.
Lachall improved to 8-5 with a three-hit shutout. She struck out one and walked one in five innings. Potsdam starter Meghan Dougherty gave up three runs, one earned in two-plus innings, with Alissa McCauley allowing five runs, all unearned, also in two innings.
Barbato and Cork each went 2-for-3 with a double. Barbato drove in two runs and Cork scored twice.