PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. -
Jeff Cooke (Rome/Rome Free Academy) and
Jason Martin (Turin/South Lewis) combined on a four-hitter and
Jack Massa (Shoreham/Shoreham-Wading River) went 3-for-5 with a homer and two RBI as Cortland completed a three-game sweep at Plattsburgh with a 7-1 victory over the Cardinals.
Cortland (26-5, 11-2 SUNYAC), ranked sixth nationally in Division III, concludes its four-day, six-game road trip Sunday with a noon doubleheader at New Paltz.
Cooke, now 6-2 this spring, allowed three hits in six scoreless innings. He struck out four and walked one. Martin notched his first save with three innings of one-hit ball. He fanned two, walked one, and allowed one unearned run.
Ryan Whalen started for Plattsburgh (5-15, 0-9 SUNYAC) and allowed five runs, three earned, on eight hits over four and a third innings.
Cortland scored a run in the first on a two-out error and added another in the third when
Marcos Perivolaris (Mattituck) walked, took second on a
Justin Teague (North Syracuse/Cicero-North Syracuse) single, moved to third on a passed ball and scored on
Patrick Schetter's (Beacon) sac fly liner.
The Red Dragons extended their lead to 5-0 in the fifth. Perivolaris singled and was bunted to second by Teague, and Massa ripped a two-run homer to left. Schetter and
Nate Budge (Central Square/Paul V. Moore) followed with back-to-back doubles to produce the final run.
Plattsburgh's run came in the seventh with the help of two Cortland errors and a Joe Deland RBI single. Cortland closed the scoring in the ninth on a Massa leadoff double, a pair of two-out walks by
Colin BeVard (Syracuse/West Genesee) and
Dom DeMarco (Watervliet/Shaker), and a
Dan Schweitzer (Poughquag/Arlington) two-run single up the middle.
Perivolaris reached base four times on a hit and three walks and BeVard earned his way on base three times with a hit and two walks. Schweitzer finished 2-for-5 with a triple and two RBI and
Steven Figueroa (Bronx/St. Raymond's) was 2-for-5 with two doubles. Jon Craft finished 1-for-3 with a run scored for the host Cardinals.
