CORTLAND, N.Y. – Alexandrea Flint (Dalton/Keshequa) threw six shutout innings and freshman Kelly O'Gorman (Clifton Park/Shenendehowa) hit her first collegiate homer as Cortland blanked nationally seventh-ranked St. John Fisher, 5-0, to earn a doubleheader split with the visiting Cardinals. Fisher won the opener, 3-1, behind Lindsey Thayer's two-hitter

Cortland (17-7), which did not commit an error in the doubleheader, will return to SUNYAC play with doubleheaders Friday at Potsdam at 3 p.m. and Saturday at Plattsburgh at noon. The Red Dragons are currently 6-0 in the conference.

St. John Fisher 3, Cortland 1

Thayer, an All-American in each of her first two seasons at Fisher, improved to 12-4 after allowing two hits and one unearned run over seven innings. She finished with no walks and six strikeouts, less than half of her 13-plus strikeouts per seven innings season average. Jamie Lachall (Philadelphia, PA/Sun Valley) allowed eight hits and three runs with no walks and four strikeouts and fell to 6-3 with the loss.

The Cardinals scored all three of their runs in the top of the second. Sarah Kubik led off with a single. Jessica Sardina singled with one out, and Emma Savas hit a two-out, two-run single to left. Savas took second on the throw home, and she scored on Kristina Balsano's RBI single to right center.

Cortland put up a run in the bottom of the third. Ericka Sadowski (Liverpool) reached second on a one-out throwing error and scored on a two-out Rosie Phillips (Geneva/Our Lady of Mercy) single to center. The Red Dragons stranded runners on third base in the second and sixth innings.

Kubik finished 3-for-3 and Savas went 2-for-3 with two RBI for the Cardinals.

Cortland 5, St. John Fisher 0

Flint allowed five hits and no walks and fanned one batter for her sixth wins in nine decisions this spring. Sam Van Dorn (Medford/Patchogue-Medford) retired the side in order in the seventh.

Cortland pounded out 12 hits, including two each by Phillips, Kaleigh Churchill (Camillus/West Genesee) and Niki Barbato (East Meadow/Holy Trinity). Churchill also drew a walk to reach base in all three of her plate appearances. O'Gorman finished 1-for-2 with a walk, RBI and two runs, and Sadowski was 1-for-3 with a double and RBI.

The Red Dragons grabbed a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the second. The inning started with a weird sequence as Churchill led off with a single and Barbato put down a sacrifice bunt. Barbato was safe at first on a wild throw, but Churchill tried to score on the play and was thrown out by Fisher right fielder Ashley Prince. Barbato, however, advanced to third on the play and scored on a two-out wild pitch. O'Gorman walked with two outs, and Sadowski followed with a liner up the middle that she legged out for an RBI double.

Skyler Hoyt (Endicott/Union-Endicott) singled with two outs in the third, Churchill lined a single off the pitcher, and Barbato hit an RBI single to left to score pinch runner Danielle Olive (Bethpage). O'Gorman's leadoff homer to left in the fourth extended the lead to 4-0, and the Red Dragons added a run in the fifth when Churchill walked with one out, Barbato singled up the middle, and pinch hitter Hannah Feldman (Buffalo/Sweet Home) lined an RBI single to right center.

Fisher's best scoring chance came in the top of the first. Julia Sortisio and Danielle Ventrone led off the game with back-to-back singles and Prince bunted the runners to second and third. Flint got the next batter to ground out to short, with the runners holding, and she escaped the jam with a groundout to second.

Flint allowed only three more hits - a Savas single in the second, a Sam Schermerhorn double in the fourth, and a Sortisio single in the fifth - but all came with two outs. Sortisio finished 2-for-3 for the Cardinals (19-5), and Monica Moses took the loss after allowing eight hits and four runs over four innings with a walk and two strikeouts.