CORTLAND, N.Y. – The Cortland baseball team remained unbeaten in SUNYAC play with a 6-3 win over visiting Plattsburgh in the first game of a three-game weekend series at Wallace Field. The teams will play a doubleheader in Cortland Saturday at noon.
 
Devin Georgetti (Rochester/Gates Chili) tossed seven shutout innings for the victory. He allowed five hits and one walk and struck out three. Plattsburgh starter Kolby Mordecki gave up five runs, two earned, on five hits over seven innings. He struck out three and walked three.
 
Cortland (10-8-1, 4-0 SUNYAC) opened the scoring in the bottom of the first. Chris Bonacci (Syracuse/West Genesee) reached second on an error and Luke Schartner (Bayport/Bayport-Blue Point) walked. Bonacci tagged and went to third on a flyout and scored on Dylan Mackenzie's (Canandaigua/Canandaigua Academy) lineout sac fly to center.
 
The Red Dragons scored two in the second on a Nick Marola (Saratoga/Scotia-Glenville) RBI single and a Schartner RBI groundout. Mat Bruno's (Rye) two-out, two-run single in the fifth pushed the lead to 5-0 and Cortland added a run in the eighth on Bonacci's two-out RBI bunt single that came to rest right on the third-base line.
 
Plattsburgh (11-5, 2-2 SUNYAC) threatened in the fifth with runners on first and third with two outs, but a diving catch by Schartner in right field ended the inning. In the sixth, the Cardinals loaded the bases with no outs on a Mike Rasquin walk and singles by Alex Kornblau and Kyle Cremin. Georgetti escaped the jam after he caught a liner and doubled up the runner at third, followed by a strikeout to end the inning.
 
Plattsburgh made things interesting with three runs in the ninth. Conner Gonzalski and Aidan Diltz led off with singles, and a one-out Dan Novelli single loaded the bases. Joey Di Rocco doubled down the left field line to bring home two runs and Ben Catrambone's groundout to short drove home a run before a groundout to second ended the game.
 
Kornblau, Diltz and Novelli each finished 2-for-4 as Plattsburgh outhit Cortland, 10-6. Adam Mieczkowski (Vestal) went 1-for-2 with a walk, hit by pitch and two runs scored, Marola was 1-for-3 with and RBI and Kameron Hartenstein (Meriden, CT/Maloney) finished 1-for-3 for the Red Dragons.