BALTIMORE, MD. – Cortland, ranked 14th nationally in Division III, split two games during Friday's action at the Baltimore Invitational, hosted by Johns Hopkins University. The Red Dragons lost to the host Blue Jays, 6-0, early in the day before returning in the evening to defeat Transylvania University, 13-1. 
 
Cortland (2-3) was scheduled to play Wittenberg on Saturday, but that game has been canceled due to the weather. Cortland will return to action next weekend with three games at Shenandoah University in Virginia - two with Susquehanna on Friday and Sunday and one with the host Hornets on Saturday. 
 
Johns Hopkins 6, Cortland 0 
 
Gabriel Romano earned the win for the host Blue Jays, allowing six hits and no walks and fanning five over six innings. Jaspar Carmichael allowed three hits and struck out four and Bearden Awadzi gave up a walk and hit a batter in a scoreless ninth to complete the combined shutout. 
 
Hopkins did most of its damage in a five-run second inning. With one out, Dillon Souvignier walked, James Stevens doubled and Caleb Cyr walked to load the bases. The Red Dragons committed an error on a potential double play grounder to third to allow a run to score and, following a strikeout for the second out, Tripp Myers and Matthew Cooper hit back-to-back two-run doubles. Hopkins added a run in the fifth on a Souvignier RBI single. 
 
Cortland loaded the bases with two outs in the fourth before grounding out to end the inning. The Red Dragons also had runners on second and third in the sixth after a Zachary Kringdon (Larchmont/Mamaroneck) leadoff single and a Mat Bruno (Rye) two-out double but couldn't score. Each team finished with nine hits. Cortland stranded 12 runners and Hopkins left 11 runners on base. 
 
Stevens finished 2-for-3 with a walk and Cooper was 2-for-5 with two RBI for the hosts. Bruno and JJ DeLawder (Hyde Park/Franklin D. Roosevelt) each went 2-for-4 for Cortland. Cortland starter Justin Patsey (Hyde Park/Franklin D. Roosevelt) allowed five runs, but only one earned, in an inning and two thirds. Cortland's bullpen allowed just one run over the final six and a third innings, led by James LaBruno (Oceanport, NJ/Shore Regional) giving up one hit and one walk and striking out one in an inning and a third, Brendan Disonell (Clifton Park/Shenendehowa) allowing a run on two hits with a walk and strikeout in two innings, and Matteo Ragusa (New York/Poly Prep Country Day) tossing two and two thirds innings of scoreless ball with one hit and one walk allowed and two strikeouts. 
 
Cortland 13, Transylvania 1 
 
Cortland trailed 1-0 entering the bottom of the third before tying the game on a DeLawder RBI single. The Red Dragons took the lead with three in the fourth on a Chris Bonacci (Syracuse/West Genesee) bases-loaded walk, a balk, and a DeLawder RBI groundout, then added three in the fifth on RBI singles by Hunter Holliday's (Camden) and Andrew Michalski (Buffalo/St. Francis) and a Bonacci run-scoring double. 
 
Cortland broke the game open with two more three-spots in the seventh and eighth innings. Dylan Mackenzie (Canandaigua/Canandaigua Academy) hit a three-run homer in the seventh, while Dylan Tierney (East Greenbush/Columbia) hit an RBI double and Mitchell Kelly (Webster/Webster Thomas) cracked a pinch-hit, two-run homer in the eighth. 
 
Will McCarthy (Farmingdale) started for Cortland and allowed one run on four hits with one walk in four and two thirds innings. He was pulled after allowing a one-out hit and a two-out walk in the top of the fifth with Cortland leading 4-1. Mikey Wandell (Newark Valley) entered with the potential tying run at the plate and walked a batter before getting a flyout to end the threat. He was awarded the victory since, with McCarthy not pitching five innings, he was deemed the "most effective" reliever due to his success in the toughest situation faced by the Red Dragon bullpen. 
 
With Cortland ahead 7-1, Liam Krasney (Earlton/Greenville) tossed two hitless innings with three strikeouts. Shane Van Dam (Cranford, NJ) struck out three and allowed one hit in the eighth and Tommy Lynch (West Seneca/Canisius) gave up one hit and fanned two in the ninth. 
 
Bruno was 2-for-2 with two runs scored, Kringdon went 2-for-3 with a walk and Mackenzie finished 2-for-5 with three RBI as part of Cortland's 13-hit attack. 
 
For Transylvania (0-1), Trent Youngblood was 2-for-3 with a walk and Henry Mitcham drove in the Pioneers' run with an RBI groundout. Starter Connor Arnold allowed four runs in three and a third innings.