ONEONTA, N.Y. - The Cortland softball team rallied from early deficits in both games to sweep a SUNYAC doubleheader at Oneonta, 4-2 and 8-3, on Monday. Cortland improved to 12-4 overall and evened its conference record at 2-2. The doubleheader began at 11 a.m. and ended at 3:05 p.m., less than 20 minutes before the long-anticipated solar eclipse reached its maximum of near totality.
 
Cortland's originally scheduled home non-league doubleheader versus RPI on Tuesday has been postponed. The Red Dragons are scheduled to host Brockport on Friday and Geneseo on Saturday in league doubleheaders, weather permitting.
 
Cortland 4, Oneonta 2
 
McKenna Barry (Clifton Park/Shenendehowa) went the distance for the win in the opener, allowing five hits and two runs, one earned, with one walk. Oneonta starter Marissa Dionisio pitched three innings and faced one batter in the fourth. She was charged with two runs on two hits with four walks and two strikeouts and took the loss. Anna Torgersen gave up one hit and two unearned runs over three innings. She walked three and struck out one.
 
Oneonta led 1-0 in the first when Sophia Mangone singled and pinch runner Maya Nelsen eventually scored on a two-out Ava Thys RBI single. Cortland tied the game in the top of the third. Gina Meyers (Liverpool) tripled with two outs and Halle Wright (Ballston Spa) walked. Wright continued advancing toward second after the walk and eventually was tagged out in a rundown, but not before Meyers was able to score.
 
Cortland broke the tie with three runs in the fifth. Lainie Ornstein (Yorktown Heights/Yorktown) walked and Tori Reich (Cornwall) singled. Meyers grounded out to second to advance the runners and, with two outs, Barry and Scotto drew back-to-back walks, the latter forcing home Ornstein. Oneonta misplayed a ground ball on the next play to allow two runs to score.
 
Oneonta opened the bottom of the seventh with a Victoria Hussey walk and Ella Stewart single. Cortland turned a third-to-first double play for the first two outs. An error on the next batter allowed a run to score, but Barry got the next batter to fly out to end the game.
 
Cortland won despite managing only three hits - one each by Reich, Meyers and Wright - although the guests did draw seven walks, including two each by Wright and Barry. Five Oneonta players finished with one hit apiece. Mangone ended 1-for-2 with a hit-by-pitch.

Cortland 8, Oneonta 3
 
Oneonta struck for three runs in the first off Cortland starter Kaeli Murtagh (Montgomery/Pine Bush) despite recording just one hit. The hosts executed a first-and-third play immediately following Adriana Fiori's bunt single to score a run. Another first-and-third play, after Mangone's steal of second, brought home the second run, and Hussey drove in the third run with a sacrifice fly.
 
Oneonta also threatened in the second, loading the bases with no outs on consecutive singles by Thys, Emily Brown and Gianna Cancelleri. Murtagh escaped that jam with a shallow flyout to center, a fielder's choice that resulted in a force out at home, and a groundout to short.
 
Cortland took the lead with six runs in the top of the third. Reich and Meyers each doubled, with Reich holding at third, and Wright hit a sac fly to right to drive home Reich. Barry followed with a two-run blast to left to tie the game. With two outs, Brooke Scheibe (Sayville) and Katie Stork (Massapequa) each singled, a wild pitch advanced the runners to second and third, and Julz Koch (New City/Clarkstown South) walked to load the bases. Pinch hitter Gabby Baumann (Colonie) reached on an infield single to drive in Scheibe and Reich hit a two-run single to plate Stork and Koch.
 
Barry entered to pitch after Oneonta drew a leadoff walk in the bottom of the third. She went the final five innings allowing no runs on four hits with one strikeout and no walks to earn her second win of the day. She's now 8-1 on the season.
 
Cortland added two runs in the top of the sixth when Barry singled, Scheibe drew a one-out walk, Stork walked to load the bases and Koch hit a two-run single to left.
 
Cortland finished the game with 16 hits. Reich went 3-for-4 with a double, walk and two RBI, Stork finished 2-for-3 with a double and a walk, Scheibe was 2-for-4 with a walk and two runs, Wright ended 2-for-4 with an RBI and Barry went 2-for-5 with a homer, two RBI and two runs.
 
Thys and Cancelleri each finished 2-for-3 for Oneonta (6-12, 2-2 SUNYAC). Starter Cadence Brennan allowed five runs on eight hits over two and two thirds innings for the loss.