GALLOWAY, N.J. - The Cortland softball team split a non-league doubleheader at Stockton University. The Red Dragons scored three times in the top of the seventh to win the opener, 7-4, but lost 4-1 in the second game that was called after the top of the fifth due to darkness.

Cortland (7-5) will play a doubleheader Saturday at The College of New Jersey. The start time has been moved an hour earlier to 11 a.m. due to forecasted rain in the area.

Cortland 7, Stockton 4

Cortland let 3-1 and 4-3 leads slip away, but scored three times in the top of the seventh to earn the victory. Mikayla Shade (Glenmont/Bethlehem) hit a one-out double and pinch runner Alissa De Padua (Milford, Pa/Delaware Valley) moved to third on a Skyler Hoyt (Endicott/Union-Endicott) single. Kaleigh Churchill (Camillus/West Genesee) capped a 3-for-4 game with an RBI single through the left side to put Cortland up 5-4, and Niki Barbato (East Meadow/Holy Trinity) followed with a two-run double to right center.

The Red Dragons led 2-0 in the third. The first run scored on an error, and the second on a Shade RBI double. Shade finished 2-for-4 with two doubles. The lead was pushed to 3-0 in the fourth on a Hannah Feldman (Buffalo/Sweet Home) two-out, pinch-hit RBI single with the bases loaded.

Stockton got a run back in the fourth on Carli Shaw's RBI groundout and tied the game on a two-run error in the fifth. Cortland reestablished a lead in the top of the sixth on a Rosie Phillips (Geneva/Our Lady of Mercy) RBI single. Phillips ended the game 2-for-3 with a walk. The Ospreys tied it in the bottom of the sixth when Danielle Lugo led off with a triple and scored on a Alexandra Cosenzo RBI single.

Jamie Lachall (Philadelphia, PA/Sun Valley) started for Cortland and allowed three unearned runs over four and a third innings. She gave up eight hits and three walks. Sam Van Dorn (Medford/Patchogue-Medford) earned her third straight win, all in relief, after giving up one run over the final two and two thirds innings. She permitted three hits, walked none, and struck out two and is now 4-1 this spring.

Stockton reliever Hannah Bibeault took the loss. She entered in the sixth and gave up the go-ahead runs in the seventh. Starter Victoria Torp was charged with four runs, two earned, on eight hits in five and two thirds innings with one strikeout and two walks. Lugo finished 2-for-3 and Casey Schieda was 2-for-4.

Stockton 4, Cortland 1 (5 inn., darkness)

Torp also started the second game for Stockton (8-6) and allowed only one run on two hits and two walks in five innings. The game was called after Cortland batted in the top of the fifth due to darkness, and since it was not a league game it was declared official at that point instead of halted.

Cosenzo gave the hosts an early 1-0 lead with a solo homer in the first. Cortland knotted the game in the top of the second on Victoria Brown's (Fresh Meadows/Archbishop Molloy) RBI double. The Red Dragons' bid to take the lead was thwarted when Brown was thrown out at home by Shaw from center field trying to tag on a fly ball to end the inning.

Stockton took the lead in the second on a Shaw RBI single. Cortland starter Alexandrea Flint (Dalton/Keshequa) avoided further damage in the inning when she struck out a batter with the bases loaded. The Ospreys, however, picked up two more runs in the third on a Schieda RBI double and a Jessica McDonaugh pinch-hit RBI single.

Torp walked the first batter she faced in the third, but proceeded to retire the final nine batters she faced. The only hit she allowed, other than the Brown double, was a Shade two-out single in the first. Torp improved to 4-3 on the season. Flint, now 1-3, gave up seven hits and four walks and fanned two in four innings. Seven different players recorded one hit apiece for the hosts.