CORTLAND, N.Y. – The Cortland softball team dropped a pair of SUNYAC contests to visiting New Paltz. The Red Dragons fell in the opener, 2-1, after leaving runners on second and third in the bottom of the seventh inning, and New Paltz claimed the second game, 8-2, behind a 14-hit attack. 
 
Cortland (11-11, 2-4 SUNYAC) will host Oneonta in a league doubleheader Saturday at noon. 
 
New Paltz 2, Cortland 1 
 
Cortland starter Karlee Weeden (Maybrook/Valley Central) allowed two runs in the top of the first and then shut out the Hawks the rest of the way. She allowed seven hits, struck out seven and walked four over seven innings of work. New Paltz's Lindsay Roman threw a five-hitter for the win. She gave up one unearned run and walked one batter. 
 
New Paltz opened the game with a Rhionna Bianchini single, Jackie Rometo double and Jillian Shelbourne RBI groundout to take a 1-0 lead, and two batters later Sydney Bonewit hit an RBI double to left. New Paltz had runners reach third base in the fourth and fifth innings and second base in the second, third and sixth frames but Weeden pitched out of those jams. 
 
Cortland scored its run in the fourth. McKenna Barry (Clifton Park/Shenendehowa) was hit by a pitch and went to third on a one-out error. Tori Reich's (Cornwall) fielder's choice grounder to short drove home the run. In the seventh, Shannon Scotto (Putnam Valley/Lakeland) led off with a double and pinch runner Megan LaMont (Amsterdam) took third on an Elaina Ornstein (Yorktown Heights/Yorktown) single. Roman got the next batter to ground out back to her, with Ornstein taking second, and a pop-out to second ended the game. 
 
Rometo finished 2-for-4 to lead New Paltz. Ornstein was 3-for-3 and Scotto went 2-for-3 with a double for the Red Dragons. 
 
New Paltz 8, Cortland 2 
 
Sydney Waldon went the distance for the win in the second game for the guests. She allowed two runs on seven hits with three strikeouts and two walks. Bonewit finished 3-for-4 with two RBI, Shelbourne was 2-for-3 with a walk and Jaycee Filancia went 2-for-4 to pace the Hawks' offense. 
 
Kimberly Westenberg (Massapequa Park/Massapequa) and Scotto each were 2-for-3 and Gina Meyers (Liverpool) finished 2-for-4 for Cortland. Julz Koch (New City/Clarkstown South) hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the fifth, following a Scotto single, to account for the Red Dragons' runs. 
 
Emmie Mae Cabrera gave New Paltz (14-10, 5-1 SUNYAC) a 1-0 lead in the first on a fielder's choice grounder, and the Hawks' three-run second included a Bianchini RBI groundout and RBI singles by Rometo and Cabrera. Kelly Marmorowski doubled home a run and Juliet Bernsteint hit an RBI single in the fifth to make it 6-0, and the Hawks added two more in the sixth on a Bonewit two-run single. 
 
Westenberg started for Cortland and allowed four runs, three earned, in two innings. Kaeli Murtagh (Pine Bush) gave up four runs in three and a third innings and Barry didn't allow any runs over the final inning and two thirds.