ORANGE, CALIF. – Cortland scored three times in the top of the 11th inning and the Red Dragons defeated nationally 22nd-ranked Chapman, 5-2, in non-league baseball action.
Cortland (6-7-1) and the host Panthers (8-7) will close out their three-game series Saturday at 1 p.m. Pacific time at Hart Park.
Cortland's winning rally started with a one-out
Chris Bonacci (Syracuse/West Genesee) walk.
Nick Chemotti (Syracuse/West Genesee) singled with two outs to move Bonacci to second and
Mat Bruno (Rye) singled to center to drive in Bonacci with the go-ahead run. After Bruno stole second,
Dylan Mackenzie (Canandaigua/Canandaigua Academy) singled to right to bring home two runs.
Chapman took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the third on a catcher's interference call with the bases loaded. Cortland went up 2-1 in the top of the fourth on singles by Bruno and Mackenzie, a fielder's choice, and
Adam Mieczkowski's (Vestal) two-run triple to right center – the lone extra-base hit for either team on the afternoon. The Panthers tied the game in the bottom of the fourth on AJ Anzai's RBI single.
Cortland starter
Luis Misla (Tampa, FL/Riverview) went seven innings and allowed five hits, four walks and two runs, one earned. He struck out six batters.
Zack Zarrilli (Farmingdale), Cortland's second reliever, entered with two outs in the eighth and runners on first and second and struck out a batter to end the threat.
Matthew Nochowitz (Glen Head/North Shore) pitched the final three innings and allowed only one baserunner on a one-out single in the 11th. He struck out three batters and earned his first collegiate victory.
Chapman starter Graham Stogner allowed two runs on five hits over four and a third innings. He fanned five and walked four. Matthew Kuromoto shut down the Red Dragons for the next four and a third innings, giving up just one hit, one walk and one hit batter and striking out seven. Dylan Holt took the loss – he entered in the ninth and pitched a scoreless 10th before being tagged for the runs in the 11th.
Bruno finished 3-for-6 with an RBI and two runs, Chemotti went 2-for-2 with two walks off the bench, Mieczkowski was 2-for-4 with a triple, walk and two RBI, and Mackenzie was 2-for-6 at the plate with two RBI. Anzai was 2-for-6 with an RBI as Chapman's lone player with multiple hits.
