CORTLAND, N.Y. - The Cortland softball team clinched the second seed for next week's six-team SUNYAC tournament with a doubleheader sweep over visiting Plattsburgh. The Red Dragons won the first game, 10-4, and the second game, 13-0 in five innings due to the eight-run rule.
 
Cortland (25-7, 15-3 SUNYAC) will face fifth seed Fredonia Thursday at noon in the second game of the tournament, hosted by top-seeded New Paltz.
 
Prior to the doubleheader, Cortland honored graduate student outfielder Gina Meyers (Liverpool) and senior second baseman Tori Reich (Cornwall) on Senior Day.
 
Meyers recorded three hits in the opener and two in the nightcap to extend her school-record hitting streak to 31 consecutive games. She's hit safely in every game she's played in this spring. According to the NCAA record book, only six players in Division III history hit safely in 31 or more straight games entering this season. The Division III record is 44 games by Heather Bortz of Moravian between the 2003 and 2004 seasons. The best mark by a SUNYAC player is 38 games by Jennifer Groat of Plattsburgh from April 2017 to April 2018.
 
Cortland 10, Plattsburgh 4
 
Plattsburgh jumped out to a 3-0 lead through an inning and a half. The Cardinals scored twice in the first on a Julia Golino sac fly and a Megan Pillus RBI double and added a run in the second on a two-out error.
 
Cortland scored in the second when McKenna Barry (Clifton Park/Shenendehowa) led off with a walk and Brooke Scheibe (Sayville) hit an RBI double to right center. The Red Dragons, however, left the bases loaded. Cortland took a 4-3 lead in the third on a Meyers triple, an error on a throw after a lineout, a Halle Wright (Ballston Spa) RBI triple and a two-out error.
 
Cortland picked up two runs in the fourth. Lainie Ornstein (Yorktown Heights/Yorktown) singled, stole second and scored on a Reich double. Meyers drove in Reich with a single up the middle. Cortland's four-run fifth included an Ornstein RBI single, a steal of home by Kaeli McAnally (Islip) on a first-and-third double steal with Ornstein, a Reich sac fly and, after a Meyers triple, a Shannon Scotto (Putnam Valley/Lakeland) RBI infield single. Plattsburgh finished the scoring on a Michelle DeFina sac fly in the seventh.
 
Barry tossed a complete game for her 15th win in 17 decisions this season. She gave up seven hits and two walks and allowed four runs, three earned. Plattsburgh starter Morgan Ormerod allowed 10 runs, nine earned, in four and two thirds innings.
 
Wright finished 4-for-4 with a triple, RBI and two runs and Meyers went 3-for-4 with two triples, an RBI and two runs. Reich was 2-for-3 with a double and two RBI, Ornstein finished 2-for-3 with an RBI and two runs and Scheibe went 2-for-4 with a double and RBI. Pillus and Sara Isaacs each registered two hits for Plattsburgh.

Cortland 13, Plattsburgh 0 (5 inn.)
 
Kim Westenberg (Massapequa Park/Massapequa) finished with a two-hit shutout over five innings and is 10-3 this spring. She allowed only an Isaacs one-out single in the fourth and a Dolly Garguilo two-out single in the fifth.
 
Cortland finished with 14 hits. Westenberg went 3-for-3 with a double and three RBI and Meyers was 2-for-3 with an RBI and two runs. Julz Koch (New City/Clarkstown South) and Danielle DeBonis (Burnt Hills/Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake) each hit two-run homers during a six-run fourth inning. Wright went 1-for-3 with a double, two RBI and two runs, Barry doubled and drove in two runs and Ornstein was 1-for-1 with a walk and two runs scored.
 
Westenberg's two-run double and Barry's RBI double staked Cortland to a 3-0 lead in the first. Meyers singled in a run, Wright hit a two-out, two-run double and Westenberg added an RBI single to push the lead to 7-0 in the second. In addition to the Koch and DeBonis homers, Cortland also scored twice in the fourth on a grounder by Barry that brought in a run from third, with a second run scoring from second base due to an error.
 
Golino started for Plattsburgh (11-25, 3-15 SUNYAC) and gave up seven runs in two innings.