CORTLAND, N.Y. – Cortland's offense combined for 28 runs and 35 hits, including a combined 7-for-7 performance by freshman Tori Reich (Cornwall), as the nationally 21st-ranked Red Dragons swept visiting New Paltz, 14-1 and 12-4, in a SUNYAC East doubleheader. The first game was called after five innings and the second in the sixth inning due to the eight-run rule. Cortland's combined 35 hits are its most since a 35-hit doubleheader at Morrisville State in 2009.
 
Cortland (8-2, 5-1 SUNYAC East) actually rallied to win in both games after falling behind 1-0 in the first inning of the opener and 4-0 in the first inning of the nightcap.
 
The Red Dragons will travel to Oneonta on Saturday for a noon doubleheader. The teams were originally scheduled to play later in the month, but the games were moved to Saturday after Cortland's originally schedule doubleheader at Potsdam was postponed.
 
Cortland 14, New Paltz 1 (5 inn.)
 
New Paltz, playing its first games of the season, scored a run in the first on a Nina Simms double and a Sydney Bonewit one-out RBI single. Cortland, however, sent 11 batters to the plate and scored six runs in the bottom of the first. Lexi Szesnat (Colonie) singled home two runs, Alyssa Finno (Hurley/Kingston) hit an RBI groundout and Sabrina Caputo (Westbury/W.T. Clarke) hit a two-run single to put Cortland up 5-1. Kelly O'Gorman's (Clifton Park/Shenendehowa) single – her second hit of the inning – drove in the final run of the inning.
 
The Red Dragons added four runs in the third on an O'Gorman RBI double, a Taylor Felicello (Marlboro) two-run double, and a wild pitch. Cortland tacked on four runs in the fourth on O'Gorman's RBI single, a wild pitch, and a Szesnat two-run double.
 
Cortland finished the game with 16 hits in four innings at the plate. O'Gorman went 4-for-4 with three RBI and three runs scored, Reich was 3-for-3 with two runs, Szesnat finished 2-for-4 with four RBI, and Cailey Cuttita (Clifton Park/Shenendehowa) was 2-for-2 with a hit by pitch. Felicello was 1-for-2 with two walks, two RBI and two runs. Simms and Bonewit each went 2-for-3 to account for four of New Paltz's five hits.
 
Karlee Weeden (Maybrook/Valley Central) pitched the first four innings for the victory and is now 4-0 on the spring. She gave up one run on five hits with two walks. Lindsey Richards (Liverpool/Cicero-North Syracuse) tossed a 1-2-3 fifth inning with one strikeout.
 
Cortland 12, New Paltz 4 (6 inn.)
 
Reich went 4-for-4 with a triple and three RBI to complete her 7-for-7 afternoon. Cortland pounded out 19 hits, including 14 over the final three innings during which the Red Dragons a combined 11 runs.
 
Cuttita was 3-for-4 with a double and two runs and ended the day 5-for-6, while Szesnat was 3-for-4 with a double and an RBI and finished the day 5-for-8 with five RBI. O'Gorman added two hits, including a double, in four at-bats and drove in two runs. She closed the day a combined 6-for-8 with five RBI and four runs. Meg Peace (New Paltz/Kingston) came off the bench to go 2-for-2 with two RBI and two runs scored, Caputo was 2-for-3 with a walk and two runs, and Gina Meyers (Liverpool) ended 2-for-3 with a double, RBI and two runs.
 
Courtney Kane (Yaphank/Bellport) entered in relief to start the top of the second and held New Paltz scoreless over five innings for the win. She gave up five hits, struck out one and walked one, and improved her record to 3-1 with the victory.
 
New Paltz jumped out quickly with four runs on four hits in the top of the first. Bonewit doubled home two runs, Celia Santini added an RBI single, and Carol Ann Campsey plated a run with a sacrifice fly. Cortland got a run back in the third on a Szesnat two-out single that drove in O'Gorman, who led off the inning with a single and was bunted to second by Felicello.
 
Cortland took a 5-4 lead with four runs in the bottom of the fourth. Jess Miller (Campbell Hall/Goshen) led off with a walk, and pinch runner Megan Lamont (Amsterdam) moved to second on a groundout. Caputo singled to center, with Lamont scoring after an error on the play, and Reich singled to put runners on first and third. Meyers hit a smash up the middle that found the gap for an RBI double, and an O'Gorman RBI groundout tied the game at 4-4. Felicello hit a double to right center to bring home Meyers with the go-ahead run, although she was thrown out trying to extend the play to a triple to end the inning.
 
The Red Dragons busted the game open with five runs in the fifth. The nine-batter inning was highlighted by a Cuttita leadoff double, singles by Szesnat and Peace, the latter of which drove in a run, a Finno sac fly that plated Szesnat and, two batters later, a Reich two-run triple on a lined hit that took a bad hop and eluded the New Paltz right fielder. O'Gorman also contributed an RBI single in the frame.
 
Cortland completed the scoring in the sixth on RBI singles by Peace and Reich, the second of which created the eight-run margin that ended the game.