LEXINGTON, S.C. – Cortland pitching allowed only one run over 18 innings as the nationally top-ranked Red Dragons swept Case Western Reserve, 8-0 and 3-1, in a non-league doubleheader at the Lexington County Stadium. Zack Durant (Verona/V-V-S) allowed two hits in six scoreless innings as the starter in Game 1 and Brendan Disonell (Clifton Park/Shenendehowa) allowed one run over six relief innings to earn the win in Game 2.
 
Cortland took three out of four games versus the Spartans in the weekend series and is now 10-3 on the season. The Red Dragons will continue their Spring Break trip Tuesday with a game at William Peace University in Cary, North Carolina. Case Western is now 4-8 on the season.
 
Cortland 8, Case Western Reserve 0
 
Durant allowed two hits and two walks and struck out four as he picked up his first victory of the season. He combined on the shutout with Patrick Dalton (Bethpage) and James LaBruno (Oceanport, NJ/Shore Regional). Dalton fanned four batters in two perfect innings. LaBruno walked two batters to start the ninth but settled down to retire the next three hitters.
 
Scott Giordano (Croton-on-Hudson/Croton-Harmon) finished 2-for-4 with a first-inning two-run homer to extend his hitting streak to 18 games (the streak was snapped in the second game). Hunter Holliday (Camden) was 2-for-3 and Nick Chemotti (Warners/West Genesee) went 1-for-2 with two walks and two runs scored.
 
Nick Denove took the loss for the Spartans after allowing five runs, three earned, on eight hits over seven innings. He struck out four and walked one.
 
Cortland led 2-0 after Giordano's two-run shot in the first, and the scored stayed that way until the bottom of the fifth when the Red Dragons plated two runs. Chemotti walked and Luke Schartner (Bayport/Bayport-Blue Point) put down a sacrifice bunt. A wild throw by the catcher on the play allowed Chemotti to score and Schartner to move to second. A passed ball advanced Schartner to third and Andrew Michalski drove him home with a sac fly to center.
 
The Red Dragons' final three runs came in the eighth on a Danny Coleman (Saratoga Springs) RBI single, a pair of walks, a wild pitch that scored Coleman, and a Ben Rhodes (Amsterdam) RBI fielder's choice.
 
Case had runners in scoring position three times. A runner on second in the third inning was thrown out after trying to advance to third on a potential wild pitch. Trey Haley doubled with one out in the fifth but got not farther, and the Spartans stranded runners on first and third in the ninth.
 
Cortland 3, Case Western Reserve 1
 
Will McCarthy (Farmingdale) started for Cortland and went the first three innings. He allowed four hits and one walk and did not give up a run. Disonell started the fourth and went the rest of the way for the win. Over six innings he gave up one run on five hits and two walks and struck out six.
 
Cortland scored in the first when a Coleman single combined with an error allowed a run to score. Coleman's solo homer in the fifth made it 2-0. Case answered with a Jacob Lott sac fly in the sixth, but the Red Dragons picked up a run in the seventh on a Chris Bonacci (Syracuse/West Genesee) RBI infield single.
 
Coleman finished 3-for-4 with a homer, Bonacci was 2-for-2 with a double and an RBI, and James Varian (Hopewell Junction/Trinity-Pawling) went 2-for-3 with a double and a walk. Giordan and Rhodes each drew two walks, although Giordano was hitless in his three official at-bats to end his 18-game hitting streak.
 
Jack Anderson led Case with a 3-for-4 outing. Zack Carinci was 2-for-3 with a walk and Jay Smith finished 2-for-5. William Bouma took the loss after giving up two runs, one earned, over five frames. He allowed eight hits and two walks and struck out five.
 
Each team left 12 runners on base in the contest. Case left two guys on in each of the first three innings as well as in the sixth and seventh innings. Cortland failed to score despite loading the bases in the third and eighth innings.