CORTLAND, N.Y. –
Sam Van Dorn (Medford/Patchogue-Medford) tossed a one-hitter and three Red Dragons homered as Cortland defeated St. John Fisher, 10-0 in five innings, in the opening game of a non-league doubleheader. The visiting Cardinals rebounded to win the second game, 9-1 in six innings, behind three homers to earn the split.
Cortland (13-10) returns to SUNYAC play with doubleheaders Friday at Brockport, Saturday at Geneseo and Monday at Plattsburgh.
Cortland 10, St. John Fisher 0 (5 inn.)
Van Dorn, now 5-6 on the season, faced the minimum 15 batters and needed only 54 pitches to earn the victory. Fisher's Julia Sortisio led off the game by beating out a slow grounder to shortstop for a single, but she was thrown out trying to steal later in the inning. Van Dorn retired the final 14 batters she faced, three by strikeout.
Cortland scored five times in the bottom of the first on
Hannah Feldman's (Buffalo/Sweet Home) two-run homer, a
Tori Scharff (Poughkeepsie/Arlington) RBI single and a
Cailey Cuttita (Clifton Park/Shenendehowa) two-run single. Feldman's homer was her fifth of the season and the 19th of her career, tying her for fifth place in school history.
In the second inning
Kiley Besko (Poughkeepsie/Arlington) led off with a single and stole second. With one out
Skyler Hoyt (Endicott/Union-Endicott) reached on an infield single and then kept going to second. The throw to second was late and Besko raced home and beat the throw. Cortland's final four runs came via two-run homers from
Ashley Votta (Marlboro) in the third and Scharff in the fourth.
Cuttita finished 2-for-2 with two RBI, Feldman was 2-for-3 with a homer and two RBI, and Hoyt ended 2-for-3 with a double. Scharff was 1-for-2 with a walk and three RBI and
Alyssa Finno (Kingston) reached base three times on a single and two walks.
St. John Fisher 9, Cortland 1 (6 inn.)
Fisher starter Emily Trotman, who gave up seven hits and six runs in an inning and third in the first game, redeemed herself in the nightcap by throwing a complete-game six-hitter with four strikeouts and one walk.
Trotman and Cortland starter
Cady Walts (Cortland) each opened the game with three scoreless innings before the teams put up a run apiece in the fourth – the Cardinals on a MaryClaire Grosvenor solo homer and the Red Dragons on a
Jess Miller (Campbell Hall/Goshen) two-out RBI single.
Fisher tallied five runs, only one earned, off Cortland reliever
Courtney Kane (Bellport) in the fifth. The inning featured four Cortland errors along with a Sarah Kubik three-run homer and a Rachel Evans two-run shot. The Cardinals tacked on three runs in the sixth on a Ashley Prince RBI groundout, an error ,and a Samie Torlish run-scoring single.
Trotman also helped her own cause by going 2-for-2 at the plate with two runs scored and Sortisio was 2-for-3 with a walk, Eight of Fisher's nine starters each recorded at least one hit.
Kelly O'Gorman (Clifton Park/Shenendehowa) was 1-for-2 with a walk and Hoyt went 1-for-2 to lead Cortland.
