BROCKPORT, N.Y. – The Cortland softball team improved to 8-2 in SUNYAC play and 16-11 overall with a doubleheader sweep at Brockport. The Red Dragons won the opener, 11-4, as Cailey Cuttita (Clifton Park/Shenendehowa) went 3-for-4 with a double. Cortland won the second game, 7-3, behind Cady Walts' (Cortland) six innings of three-hit ball with no walks and seven strikeouts. Kelly O'Gorman (Clifton Park/Shenendehowa) finished 3-for-4 with a homer, double, two RBI and two runs and Hannah Feldman (Buffalo/Sweet Home) also homered.
 
Cortland's home doubleheader versus Fredonia has been moved up to Thursday, April 18, at 3 p.m. due to poor weather in the forecast for Friday, the originally scheduled date.
 
Cortland 11, Brockport 4
 
The opening game featured a unique matchup as Cortland senior starting pitcher Sam Van Dorn (Medford/Patchogue-Medford) faced her younger sister Megan, a Brockport freshman. Sam allowed four runs, three earned, over seven innings despite giving up 12 hits and four walks. She struck out six and is now 6-7 on the season. Megan gave up 11 runs, seven earned, on 13 hits with one walk, also in a complete-game seven innings.
 
In addition to Cuttita's three hits, Taylor Felicello (Marlboro) was 2-for-3 with two RBI and two runs and Ashley Votta (Marlboro) went 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI. Meghan Cullen led Brockport with a 3-for-4 effort, including a double, while Jessica Koneski, Alexis Ross and Alison Missavage each finished with two hits.
 
Skyler Hoyt (Endicott/Union-Endicott) singled in a run in the first to put Cortland up 1-0, and the Red Dragons added two in the second on a Felicello RBI groundout, a Votta double and a two-out error.
 
The teams each scored three times in the fourth. Votta singled in a run, followed by an O'Gorman RBI groundout and an Averee May (Highland Falls/James I. O'Neill) sac fly, for the Red Dragons. The Golden Eagles scored on a Missavage RBI double, a Molly Ryan RBI single and a Cameryn Duggan bases-loaded walk.
 
Cortland came back with three in the top of the fifth. Cuttita hit an RBI double and eventually scored on Felicello's sac fly to right. Votta plated the third run with a groundout. Alyssa Finno (Kingston) singled home a run in the sixth to make it 10-3 and an error allowed a run to score in the seventh. Brockport's last run came via a Cortland error in the bottom of the seventh.
 
Cortland 7, Brockport 3
 
Cortland managed only two hits over the first five innings versus Brockport starter Julia Palopoli, but it made them count with solo homers by O'Gorman and Feldman in the top of the fourth to put the Red Dragons up 2-0. Walts was dominant through the first five innings as well, with the only Brockport baserunner during that stretch coming via a Cullen two-out infield single in the fourth.
 
The Red Dragons broke the game open slightly with four runs in the top of the sixth. The inning featured sac flies by Hoyt and Jess Miller (Campbell Hall/Goshen), sandwiched around a Felicello RBI single to short, and the last run scored when Hoyt was able to cross the plate before Felicello was tagged out in a rundown between first and second after the Miller sac fly.
 
Kacie Hubbard broke up Walts' shutout bid with a leadoff homer in the bottom of the sixth. Victoria Thuman followed with a double, but Walts retired the next three batters.
 
O'Gorman's RBI double in the top of the seventh gave Cortland a 7-1 lead. The Golden Eagles made things a little interesting versus reliever Courtney Kane (Bellport) in the bottom of the inning, loading the bases on a hit by pitch, walk and error with no outs. Missavage drove in a run with a sac fly, but Cortland threw out a runner trying to take second after the throw home, and Kane got the next batter to ground out to end the game.
 
O'Gorman accounted for three of Cortland's seven hits. Sabrina Caputo (Westbury/W.T. Clarke) recorded a hit in her lone at-bat as a pinch hitter and May went 1-for-2. Palopoli allowed seven runs, three earned, on seven hits with seven strikeouts and no walks for Brockport (11-15, 2-10 SUNYAC). Thuman finished 1-for-2 and Hubbard and Cullen were each 1-for-3.