ORANGE, CALIF. – Brandon Menzel allowed two runs over seven innings and three homers accounted for six of Chapman's first seven runs as the nationally 22nd-ranked Panthers defeated visiting Cortland, 10-3, in the final game of a three-game, non-league baseball series.
 
Cortland, which defeated Chapman on both Friday and Saturday, dropped to 6-8-1 with the loss. Chapman improved to 9-7.
 
Menzel allowed six hits and one walk with four strikeouts to up his record to 4-0 on the season. Trent Turquand went 3-for-4 with a homer, four RBI and two runs. AJ Anzai was 2-for-3 with a homer and two waks and Kai Osaka added a two-run homer.
 
Chapman took a 4-0 lead in the third on Anzai's leadoff round-tripper, an Osaka two-run homer and Turquand's sac fly. Cortland cut the deficit to 4-2 in the fifth on Nick Plue's (Guilderland) two-run home run, but Turquand hit a three-run shot in the fifth to make it 7-2. Chapman added three in the seventh – two on an error and another on an Austin Dudas RBI single. Cortland closed the scoring in the eighth on back-to-back two-out doubles by Ethan Gallo (Slate Hill/Minisink Valley) and JJ DeLawder (Hyde Park/Franklin D. Roosevelt).
 
Zachary Kringdon (Larchmont/Mamaroneck) went 1-for-1 with a double and a walk in two plate appearances for the Red Dragons. Starter Will McCarthy (Farmingdale) suffered the loss after allowing three runs in two and a third innings. Cortland's strongest relief appearances came from Cam Darrow (South Glens Falls), who allowed no runs or hits and walked two in an inning and a third, and Nolan Smith (Hamburg), who gave up two hits and no runs in an inning and two thirds.
 
Cortland returns to action March 22-23 with a three-game series at Oneonta to open the SUNYAC schedule. The teams play a single game on the 22nd and a doubleheader on the 23rd.