SALEM, VA. – The Cortland baseball team dropped a pair of decisions at Roanoke College, falling, 10-2, in a game that was halted on Wednesday and resumed on Thursday, and losing, 8-5, on Thursday. 
 
Cortland (11-5), ranked second nationally in Division III, will host Johnson & Wales University of Rhode Island in a doubleheader at Wallace Field on Friday at 1 p.m. – a nine-inning game followed by a seven-inning contest. The teams will also try to play a game on Saturday, weather permitting. 
 
Roanoke 10, Cortland 2  (Wed.; completed Thu.)
 
Cortland scored twice in the top of the first inning but was held scoreless the rest of the way by the Maroons. The game was halted by rain in the bottom of the sixth inning with Roanoke leading, 8-2, and the remainder of the game was completed on Thursday. 
 
Cortland's two runs were the result of a Nick Chemotti (Warners/West Genesee) walk, a Mat Bruno (Rye) double, and two passed balls. Roanoke picked up a run in the second on a Jonny Wall double, a groundout and a wild pitch. 
 
The hosts took the lead in the fourth on Owen Lawn's three-run homer. Mason Staz singled in two runs in the fifth to make it 6-2, and the Maroons added three in the sixth on a Carson McCusker RBI single, a Jacob Bonzon squeeze bunt and a Will Smith RBI double. The last of those three runs came after the game resumed on Thursday. Roanoke's final run occurred in the seventh when Wall doubled and eventually scored on an error. 
 
Shane Mugnolo (Howard Beach/Xaverian) started for Cortland and in his first appearance of the season allowed one run on two hits with no walks and two strikeouts in three innings. Bruno finished 2-for-4 with a double. Jackson Murphy won in relief for Roanoke after allowing only two hits and no runs in four and a third innings. Lawn finished 2-for-3 at the plate with a walk, three RBI and two runs, Smith went 2-for-5 with a triple, double and RBI, and Wall was 2-for-4 with two doubles and three runs scored. 
 
Roanoke 8, Cortland 5 (Thu.)
 
Cortland took a 4-0 lead into the bottom of the sixth before Roanoke scored six times, capped by Connor Butler's two-out grand slam. The Red Dragons got back within a run at 6-5 in the top of the eighth on back-to-back two-out doubles by Danny Coleman (Saratoga Springs) and Antonio Pragana (Hopewell Junction/John Jay), but wild pitches led to two Roanoke runs in the bottom of the eighth. 
 
Cortland struck for two runs in the third on Coleman's RBI walk and a wild pitch later in the inning. Scott Giordano (Croton-on-Hudson/Croton-Harmon) and Coleman hit back-to-back homers in the sixth to make it 4-0. Coleman finished 2-for-3 with a homer, double, two RBI and two runs scored. Anthony Fusco (Yorktown Heights/Yorktown) started and took the loss after giving up six runs, two earned, on nine hits in six innings. He struck out five and walked two. 
 
Butler finished 2-for4 with the grand slam along with a walk and two runs scored. Lawn was 3-for-5 and Staz went 2-for-4 with a walk, Braeden Farrell notched the win in relief with an inning and a third of scoreless ball. Austin Bansek, Roanoke's sixth pitcher of the game, registered the save after allowing no runs on two hits over the final inning and a third.