CORTLAND, N.Y. - Mat Bruno (Rye) homered twice and drove in five runs as Cortland defeated visiting Fredonia, 11-4, in the opening game of a SUNYAC baseball doubleheader. The nationally sixth-ranked Red Dragons (18-6, 5-0 SUNYAC) completed the sweep with a 9-2 win in the seven-inning nightcap, breaking open a tie game with two runs in the fifth and six in sixth. 
 
The start time for the final game of the three-game series has been moved up an hour to 11 a.m. on Sunday at Wallace Field. 
 
Cortland 11, Fredonia 4 
 
Anthony Fusco (Yorktown Heights/Yorktown) allowed just two hits and one run with four strikeouts and no walks over six innings to improve to 4-1 on the season. He retired the first 12 batters he faced before allowing a Pat Bigham leadoff single in the fifth. Brendan Disonell (Clifton Park/Shenendehowa) pitched a perfect seventh and eighth innings with three strikeouts. Fredonia scored three of its four runs in the ninth. 
 
Cortland finished with 14 hits. In addition to Bruno's performance, Danny Coleman (Saratoga Springs) went 3-for-4 with a homer, double, two RBI and two runs, Scott Giordano (Croton-on-Hudson/Croton-Harmon) was 3-for-4 with two doubles and three runs, and Matt Funk (Pine Plains) came off the bench to finish 2-for-2 with a double and RBI. 
 
A two-out error in the first set up a Bruno two-run homer to put Cortland on top, 2-0. Paul Franzese (Somers) drove in a run with a sacrifice fly in the second, and the Red Dragons added a run in the fourth when Coleman doubled with one out and eventually scored on a Fredonia double-error with two outs. 
 
Fredonia's run in the top of the fifth came via an Ethan Blaisdell RBI groundout. Cortland answered with four in the bottom of that frame - the first on a Matthew Krafft (Cornwall) RBI fielder's choice and the other three on Bruno's three-run homer to left center. 
 
Cortland wrapped up its scoring in the seventh. Giordano doubled with one out and Coleman hit a two-out, two-run homer to right center. Funk doubled home a run later in the inning. 
 
Fredonia's three-run ninth included a Johnny Genau solo homer and a Jordan Maher two-run single. Fredonia starter Kevin Mahon allowed eight runs, five earned, in six innings. 

Cortland 9, Fredonia 2 
 
Through the first four innings the game shaped up as a duel between Cortland starting pitcher Ryan Flansburg (Queensbury) and Fredonia starter Nathan O'Brochta. Fredonia took the lead in the top of the first when Tyler Phillips singled with two outs, stole second and scored on a Luke Kenyon RBI single. Cortland tied the game in the bottom of the first on singles by Krafft and Giordano and a Bruno RBI double. 
 
Fredonia threatened in the top of the fourth as Kenyon led off with a single and Tylor Murphy doubled to right to put runners on second and third and no outs. With Cortland's infield playing in, the next batter lined out to Ben Rhodes (Amsterdam) at shortstop, and he flipped the ball to third baseman Coleman to complete a double play. Flansburg struck out the next hitter to keep the game tied. 
 
Cortland took the lead in the bottom of the fifth. A one-out walk and two-out walk put runners on first and second, and James Varian (Hopewell Junction/Trinity-Pawling) cleared the bases with a two-run double to right center. 
 
The Red Dragons broke the game open with a six-run sixth inning. The inning featured two runs scoring on wild pitches, along with a Coleman sacrifice fly, a Franzese two-run double and a Rhodes RBI single. Fredonia scored in the seventh on a Phillips RBI double but left runners on second and third when a diving stop by Krafft at first robbed the Blue Devils of a potential two-run hit and ended the game. 
 
Flansburg notched the win, going five innings and allowing one run on six hits with four strikeouts and a walk. Shane Mugnolo (Howard Beach/Xaverian) earned the save, giving up a run on four hits over the final two innings. He fanned three and walked one. O'Brochta, despite his strong start, eventually was tagged for six runs on eight hits over five-plus innings with five strikeouts and four walks. 
 
Eight of Cortland's nine starters had at least one hit. Chris Bonacci (Syracuse/West Genesee) finished 2-for-4 and Coleman and Varian were each 1-for-2 with a walk. Varian and Franzese each had two RBI. For Fredonia (9-10, 0-5 SUNYAC), Kenyon went 3-for-4 with an RBI, Phillips was 2-for-4 with an RBI and Bigham was 2-for-4.