KISSIMMEE, FLA. – Kelly O'Gorman (Clifton Park/Shenendehowa) hit a two-run, walk-off double in the bottom of the eighth inning as Cortland defeated McDaniel College, 9-8, to close the Red Dragons' week at the D9 Sunkissed Classic.
 
Cortland rallied from a 6-1 deficit in the fifth inning for the win to cap an emotional up-and-down day. The Red Dragons lost their first game of the morning to Washington Colllege of Maryland, 11-10, after holding a 10-0 lead in the third inning.
 
Cortland (5-5) is scheduled to play doubleheaders at The College of New Jersey and Kean University next Friday and Saturday in New Jersey.
 
Washington (Md.) 11, Cortland 10
 
Cortland scored five runs in the top of both the second and third innings to take a 10-0 lead versus the Shorewomen (6-11). The five in the second came as a result of three Washington errors, a Sam Van Dorn (Medford/Patchogue-Medford) RBI single, and two-out RBI singles by Andrea Schoonmaker (Marlboro) and Ericka Sadowski (Liverpool). The five-run third featured a Danielle Olive (Bethpage) two-run double, a Jordyn Steele (Windsor) RBI double and a Sadowski run-scoring single, with the final run scoring when Sadowski was caught stealing in a rundown, but not before Schoonmaker was able to score from third.
 
Washington answered Cortland's five runs in the third with five of its own. Elaina DiPrimio singled in a run, Rachel Butler drew a bases-loaded walk, and Chrissy Segrest hit a three-run double. The Shorewomen added two in the fifth on RBI singles by Butler and Segrest.
 
The comeback was completed with four Washington runs in the bottom of the sixth. With two outs, DiPrimio hit a two-run homer to cut the Cortland lead to 10-9. After two singles and a walk loaded the bases, Taylor Harcum – who entered to pitch in the sixth – hit a two-run single to give the Shorewomen the lead. Harcum retired Cortland in order in the seventh to earn the win.
 
Schoonmaker finished 3-for-4 with an RBI and two runs scored, Sadowski was 2-for-4 with two RBI, and Olive ended 1-for-1 with a double, hit-by-pitch, two runs and two RBI for Cortland. Van Dorn received a no-decision after allowing seven runs, three earned, on six hits in four and a third innings. She struck out nine batters – including five in a row at one point - and walked two.
 
DiPrimio was 3-for-4 with a homer, three RBI and two runs to lead Washington's 13-hit attack. Segrest finished 2-for-3 with a walk, double and four RBI, Butler was 2-for-3 with a walk, two RBI and two runs, and Leah Stokes went 2-for-3 with a double and two runs. Harcum allowed only one hit in two scoreless innings, and Milly Kawabata threw two scoreless and hitless innings with two strikeouts in the fourth and fifth frames.
 
Cortland 9, McDaniel 8 (8 inn.)
 
Cortland sent 10 batters to the plate in a six-run fifth inning to turn a 6-1 deficit into a 7-6 lead. McDaniel (6-10) tied the game in the sixth inning, and the game eventually moved to the eighth inning and the NCAA tiebreaker rule with a runner placed on second to start the inning.
 
In McDaniel's half of the inning, Morgan Scardina was placed on second and moved to third on a Michaela Persinger sac bunt. She then scored on a Tayler Hishon groundout. Cortland started the bottom of the eighth with Averee May (Highland Falls/James I. O'Neill) placed on second. Facing two strikes after a failed bunt attempt, Schoonmaker lined a single to left to put runners on first and third. Sadowski walked to load the bases, and O'Gorman hit a double to left center to score the tying and winning runs.
 
Cortland held a 1-0 lead in the first when Schoonmaker singled and eventually scored on a two-out error. The Green Terror plated three in the top of the third on consecutive two-out RBI singles by Hishon, Megan Coyle and Payton Lewis, added a run in the fourth on a one-out error, and went ahead 6-1 in the fifth on a Alice Wagner two-run homer to right.
 
Cortland's six-run fifth started with six straight hitters reaching. Sadowski walked, O'Gorman doubled and Skyler Hoyt (Endicott/Union-Endicott) hit an RBI single. Alissa De Padua's (Milford, PA/Delaware Valley) bunt single loaded the bases, and Taylor Felicello (Marlboro) hit a two-run double down the third base line to bring the Red Dragons within 6-5. McDaniel got the next two hitters out, but Schoonmaker hit a double to right center that just eluded a diving right fielder to put Cortland ahead 7-6. McDaniel tied it on a Wagner RBI single in the sixth, but left the bases loaded.
 
Schoonmaker finished 3-for-5 with a double, two RBI and two runs. She was a combined 6-for-9 on the day. O'Gorman went 2-for-4 with two doubles and two RBI and Sadowski was 2-for-3 with two walks. Tori Scharff (Poughkeepsie/Arlington) chipped in with a 2-for-4 effort as Cortland outhit the Green Terror, 13-12.
 
Lewis closed the game 3-for-3 with an RBI and Wagner was 2-for-3 with a homer, walk and three RBI for McDaniel. Scardina and Coyle each went 2-for-5.
 
VanDorn picked up the win in relief. She entered with one out in the sixth and tossed two and two thirds innings, allowing two hits and one unearned run (by virtue of the tiebreaker rule in the eighth) with one strikeout. Valerie Lamb was pinned with the loss for McDaniel after pitching the final three innings and giving up three hits and two runs, one earned, with three strikeouts and one walk.