SALISBURY, MD. – Lynchburg rallied from a 5-1 deficit and eventually won on a Brittany Coffey bases-loaded single in the bottom of the eighth as the Hornets defeated Cortland, 6-5, in the opening game of a non-league doubleheader. Lynchburg completed the sweep with a 9-3 win in the second game behind a combined one-hitter from Michelle Lehan and Kayley Cox.

Cortland dropped to 0-3 with the losses. The Red Dragons head west March 17-21 for a spring break trip in California that features doubleheaders at Cal Lutheran, Chapman, La Verne and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps.
 
Lynchburg 6, Cortland 5 (8 inn.)
 
Cortland scored four runs in the third to break a 1-1 tie, but Lynchburg answered with three in the bottom of the inning and tied the game in the fifth. The Red Dragons committed six errors, including three in the third. Sam Van Dorn (Medford/Patchogue-Medford) took the loss despite only one of the six runs she allowed being earned. She struck out five, walked four and allowed eight hits in seven and a third innings.
 
Cortland outhit the Hornets, 12-8, led by Kelly O'Gorman's (Clifton Park/Shenendehowa) 3-for-5 effort with one RBI. Tori Scharff (Poughkeepsie/Arlington) was 2-for-4 with a double and two runs scored, Sabrina Caputo (Westbury/W.T. Clarke) was 2-for-4 with a run scored, and Kiley Besko (Poughkeepsie/Arlington) singled twice off the bench.
 
Mackenzie Chitwood and Taylor Mabry each went 2-for-3 and Jordyne Vance was 2-for-4 for Lynchburg. Kayley Cox earned the win in relief with four innings of three-hit shutout ball. She fanned four batters.
 
With the game tied after seven innings, the teams went to the NCAA tiebreaker rule in the eighth where a runner is placed on second to start the inning. Cortland was retired in order without scoring in the top of the seventh. In the bottom of the inning, Chitwood bunted to move the runner to third. Cortland then issued a pair of intentional walks before Coffey hit the game-winning single.
 
Lynchburg 9, Cortland 3
 
Lynchburg took advantage of a two-out error and scored five unearned runs in the top of the first inning. The error was followed by a Coffey RBI single, a Vance RBI double, a two-run double by Sarah Commons and a Kortney Leazer RBI single. Commons finished 3-for-4 with two RBI, while Leazer and Haylee Wood each were 2-for-3 with a walk.
 
Cortland scored three in the fourth while recording its lone hit. Besko and O'Gorman led off with walks and, with one out, Hannah Feldman (Buffalo/Sweet Home) hit a three-run homer to left. The Red Dragons had only one other baserunner in the game on an O'Gorman one-out walk in the first. Following Feldman's homer, Lehan retired the last two batters of the fourth and Cox recorded nine consecutive outs to end the game and earn the save.
 
Lynchburg broke the game open with four runs in the top of the seventh on Kayla Hugate's RBI single, a Chitwood two-run single and, after two walks, a Olivia Herman bases-loaded hit by pitch.