KISSIMMEE, FLA. – Cortland improved to 7-1 on the season with non-league softball wins over Arcadia, 9-1 in six innings, and Gettysburg, 5-3, at THE Spring Games. Cortland wraps up its Florida trip Friday with games against Springfield and Bowdoin.
Cortland 9, Arcadia 1 (6 inn.)
McKenna Barry (Clifton Park/Shenendehowa) improved to 3-0 with the win in the contest, which was called after six innings due to the eight-run rule. She allowed six hits and no walks with three strikeouts and had her shutout bid thwarted when Arcadia scored in the bottom of the sixth. Barry also homered and drove in two runs.
Tori Reich (Cornwall) and
Halle Wright (Ballston Spa) each finished 2-for-3 with a double and walk.
Kaeli McAnally (Islip) was 1-for-3 with a walk, two RBI and two runs.
Nathlalia Dilanni finished 2-for-3 for Arcadia (4-5). Julianna Presto started for the Knights and took the loss after allowing nine runs, six earned, in five innings.
Cortland scored three without a hit in the second.
Danielle DeBonis (Burnt Hills/Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake) led off with a walk, McAnally walked with one out and
Lainie Ornstein (Yorktown Heights/Yorktown) walked with two outs. A wild pitch allowed DeBonis to score, and then a passed ball brought home McAnally. After Arcadia tossed the ball back to the pitcher, Ornstein broke from third and stole home.
Reich doubled and eventually scored on a Barry sac fly in the fourth to make it 4-0. The Red Dragons plated three in the fifth on a McAnally two-run single and a Reich RBI single. Barry homered to lead off the sixth and another run scored later in the inning on an error. Arcadia's run in the sixth came from singles by Allie LaRochelle and Dilanni, a fielder's choice and a Taylor Sommer sac bunt.
Cortland 5, Gettysburg 3
Kim Westenberg (Massapequa Park/Massapequa) upped her record to 4-1 with the win over the Bullets. She scattered 11 hits over seven innings and allowed three runs, two earned, with a walk and three strikeouts.
Gina Meyers (Liverpool) was 2-for-4 with an RBI and
Katie Stork (Massapequa) was 1-for-3 with an RBI.
Gettysburg (7-4) was led by Audrey Bergan, who finished 4-for-4 with an RBI, and Lily Mader, who went 2-for-3 with an RBI. Megan Hughes gave up five runs, but only one earned, over the first three innings to take the loss.
Cortland struck for three runs in the bottom of the first. After a Reich single and a fielder's choice force out, Barry was hit by a pitch and Westenberg reached on an infield single to load the bases. Wright hit a grounder to third and the throw home was off target, allowing two runs two score.
Brooke Scheibe (Sayville) drove in the third run with a groundout to short.
Gettysburg got two runs back in the second. With two outs, Emily Vinal, Clare Sottile, Mader and Bergan strung together four straight singles, with Mader's and Bergan's driving in runs. Cortland answered with a run in the bottom of the second on a Meyers RBI single and another in the third on a Stork RBI single to take a 5-2 lead.
The scored remained 5-2 until the top of the seventh. Bergan led off with a single and moved to third on a pair of groundouts. An error kept the inning alive and allowed Bergan to score, and Zoe Brennan singled to put the potential tying run on base, but Westenberg induced a flyout to center to end the game.
