CORTLAND, N.Y. – Cortland pitching held visiting Alfred State scoreless for 16 out of 18 innings and Scott Giordano (Croton-on-Hudson/Croton-Harmon) homered in each game as the Red Dragons swept the visiting Pioneers, 6-2 and 8-1, in a pair of nine-inning, non-conference games. 
 
Cortland (2-2) will host Clarkson in a non-league doubleheader Wednesday at 1 p.m. (start time moved a half hour later than originally scheduled). 
 
Cortland 6, Alfred St. 2 
 
Cortland fell behind 2-0 in the top of the first but kept Alfred State off the board the rest of the contest. Shane Mugnolo (Howard Beach/Xaverian) earned the win in relief with six innings of four-hit shutout ball. He struck out five and walked one. AJ Gartland went the distance for Alfred State and allowed nine hits and two walks with one strikeout. 
 
Giordano, Daniel Coleman (Saratoga Springs) and Ben Rhodes (Amsterdam) each went 2-for-3 to account for six of the Red Dragons' nine hits. Giordano and Rhodes each reached base by a hit-by-pitch as well and Coleman added a walk to his two-hit outing, while Matthew Krafft (Cornwall) was 1-for-2 with a double, walk and sac bunt. 
 
Justin LoTemple was 3-for-4 with an RBI, Ryan Santiago was 2-for-3 and Matteo Avallone finished 2-for-4 for the Pioneers, who outhit Cortland, 10-9. 
 
Alfred State's two-run first started with a Tim Holler leadoff triple. He scored on Nick Serce's one-out double, and two batters later LoTemple hit an RBI single to left. 
 
Cortland scored in the second on Chris Bonacci's (Syracuse/West Genesee) RBI single and tied the game in the third when Giordano led off with a double and eventually scored on a James Varian (Hopewell Junction/Trinity-Pawling) sac fly. Giordano broke the tie with a leadoff homer in the bottom of the fifth. Colin BeVard (Syracuse/West Genesee) followed with a triple and scored on a wild pitch. 
 
The Red Dragons extended the lead to 5-2 in the sixth when Rhodes singles, moved to second on a Krafft sac bunt, took third on a groundout and scored on a wild pitch. Cortland completed the scoring in the eighth on an AJ Fenton (Kings Park) sac fly that plated Coleman, who had led off the inning with a single.

Cortland 8, Alfred St. 1 
 
Zack Durant (Verona/V-V-S) earned the win in the nightcap after allowing just four hits and two walks over the first five innings. He struck out six, walked two, and did not allow any runs. Spencer Weyand (Hornell) pitched the next three frames and gave up one run on one hit and two walks with three strikeouts. Rhodes pitched a scoreless ninth. 
 
Krafft led a 14-hit attack by going 3-for-4 with a triple and two RBI. Coleman went 2-for-2 with a walk, RBI and two runs and Mat Bruno (Rye) was 2-for-4 with an RBI. Giordano and Bryan Rivera (Rochester/Greece Arcadia) each finished 2-for-5, with Giordano driving in two runs. Avallone was 2-for-3 with a walk and Josh Laurie went 2-for-4 to lead Alfred State. 
 
Cortland grabbed a 3-0 lead in the second on a Krafft two-run triple and an Andrew Michalski (Buffalo/St. Francis) sac fly. Coleman singled home a run in the third, and Cortland's lead remained at 4-0 until the seventh. 
 
Giordano led off the bottom of the seventh with a homer, and later in the inning Coleman walked and eventually scored on a wild pitch to extend the Red Dragon lead to 6-0. Alfred State broke up the shutout bid in the top of the eighth on Brody Burdett's two-out RBI double, and Cortland wrapped up the scoring in the bottom of the eighth on a Giordano single that drove home Fenton, who led off the inning with a double, and a Bruno sac fly – Cortland's fourth sacrifice fly of the doubleheader.