SALISBURY, MD. – The nationally 14th-ranked Cortland baseball team lost both ends of a doubleheader at top-ranked Salisbury University, falling 9-1 in the first game and 13-5 in the nightcap. 
 
The Red Dragons (1-2) return to action next weekend with three games at the Baltimore Invitational, hosted by Johns Hopkins. Cortland faces the host Blue Jays on Friday, Wittenberg on Saturday and Transylvania on Sunday. 
 
GAME 1: Salisbury 9, Cortland 1 
 
Salisbury's Jimmy Adkins allowed one run on five hits with no walks and seven strikeouts over eight innings for the victory. The Sea Gulls out-hit Cortland, 11-5, in the opener. Jacob Ference was 2-for-3 with a double, walk and RBI, Roman March finished 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI and Danny Sheeler was 2-for-5 with a double and three RBI. 
 
Chris Bonacci (Syracuse/West Genesee) finished 2-for-4, Matthew Krafft (Cornwall) and Andrew Michalski (Buffalo/St. Francis) were each 1-for-3, and Mat Bruno (Rye) drove in a run for the Red Dragons. Anthony Fusco (Yorktown Heights/Yorktown) started and allowed two runs on four hits over three and two thirds innings. Mikey Wandell (Newark Valley) was the most effective of Cortland's four relievers, not allowing any hits or runs over an inning and two thirds. 
 
Salisbury took a 2-0 lead in the first on a Sheeler RBI double and a Stephen Rice RBI single. The Sea Gulls added three in the fifth on Sheeler's two-run single and a March RBI single. Cortland picked up its run in the sixth on Bruno's RBI single. Salisbury's final runs came on a Kavi Caster solo homer in the seventh, and Ference's RBI double and Luke Weddell's run-scoring single in the eighth. 
 
GAME 2: Salisbury 13, Cortland 5 
 
Cortland got on the board in the top of the first when Bonacci singled, went to second on a balk and scored on Luke Schartner's (Bayport/Bayport-Blue Point) RBI double. Salisbury, however, plated three runs in the bottom of the first on a Rice bases-loaded walk, a March hit-by-pitch that forced in a run, and a Zach Geeseman sacrifice fly. The hosts added four runs in the second on Caster's three-run homer and Sheeler's solo homer, and Sheeler hit another round-tripper in the fourth to make it 8-1. 
 
Zachary Kringdon (Larchmont/Mamaroneck) hit a pinch-hit two-run homer in the sixth to cut the score to 8-3, but the Sea Gulls responded in the bottom of the inning with a two-out Kaster triple, a Sheeler intentional walk and a Rice three-run homer to go up 11-3. The lead grew to 13-3 in the seventh on back-to-back RBI doubles from Scott Cameron and Dom Frigiola. 
 
Dylan Mackenzie (Canandaigua/Canandaigua Academy) closed out the scoring for Cortland in the eighth with a two-run homer. Each team finished with 10 hits, but Cortland left eight runners on base. 
 
Schartner and Liam Ward (Albion) each finished 2-for-4 with a double and Mackenzie and Kringdon each drove in two runs with their two-run homers. Starter Dylan Beers (Woodbury/Monroe-Woodbury) took the loss after giving up three runs on one hit with two walks in a third of an inning. Among Cortland's six relievers, Justin Patsey (Hyde Park/Franklin D. Roosevelt) gave up a hit, walk and run in two innings, Tommy Lynch (West Seneca/Canisius) didn't allow any hits and struck out two in an inning and a third, and Liam Krasney (Earlton/Greenville) allowed no hits and one walk in two thirds of an inning. 
 
For Salisbury, Sheeler was 2-for-3 with two homers, two walks, two RBI and four runs and Caster finished 2-for-3 with a homer, triple, three RBI and three runs. Rice homered and drove in four and Cameron Hyder was 2-for-5 with two runs scored. Bryce Sterling started and allowed a run on three hits with two walks and two strikeouts in three innings. Tyler Villa was awarded the victory after giving up two hits, a walk and two runs with two strikeouts over the middle three innings.