BALTIMORE, MD. – Damian Yenzi's three-run homer broke a 1-1 tie in the fifth and Nicklaus Brown allowed four hits over eight innings as Marietta defeated Cortland, 10-1, on the final day of Johns Hopkins' Baltimore Invitational.

Marietta improved to 3-0 after completing a three-day tournament run with wins over Johns Hopkins, Roanoke and Cortland. The Red Dragons, ranked seventh in the latest D3baseball.com national poll, dropped to 4-5 with the loss.

Brown struck out nine batters and walked only one for the victory. Isaac Danford gave up a hit, a walk and a hit batsman but got out of a bases-loaded jam in the ninth.

Wyatt Myers (Chittenango) gave Cortland a 1-0 lead with a one-out homer in the bottom of the second inning. The Pioneers tied the game in the fourth on an Alex Page solo homer, and Brown got out of a second-and-third, one-out situation in the bottom of the fourth with two strikeouts.

In the fifth, one-out singles by Jared Weiss and Drew Wilkinson set up Yenzi's two-out, three-run homer. Marietta scored three unearned runs in the sixth and Logan Vietmeier hit a two-run homer in the seventh to push the lead to 9-1. Yenzi closed the scoring with an RBI single in the eighth.

Myers finished 2-for-3, James Varian (Hopewell Junction/Trinity-Pawling) was 1-for-3 with a double and Andrew Michalski (Buffalo/St. Francis) ended 1-for-3 for Cortland. Anthony Donofrio (Massapequa/St. Anthony's) drew walks in his two plate appearances after entering as a pinch hitter in the sixth.

Weiss was 2-for-3, Yenzi finished 2-for-5 with four RBI and Vietmeier was 1-for-4 with a walk, two RBI and two runs scored for Marietta. Page was 1-for-3 with two walks, an RBI and two runs.

Starter Joe Valentino (West Islip) allowed five hits and no walks and struck out five in five innings for the Red Dragons.