SAN ANTONIO, TX – Marc Stockhausen (Bronx/St. Raymond) hit two home runs, but the Cortland baseball team, ranked 24th nationally, dropped a 7-2 decision to nationally seventh-ranked Trinity on Sunday afternoon to close out a four-game series between the sides.
Cortland falls to 7-7 on the year, and will wrap up its Texas Trip tomorrow with a Southwestern before returning home for the opening weekend of SUNYAC play against Oswego on Friday. Trinity improves to 15-4 on the year after winning the final two games for the series split.
Stockhausen finished 2-for-4 for the game, with the two home runs, and two RBI and two runs scored.
Zachary Kringdon (Larchmont/Mamaroneck) was 1-for-2.
Danny Jackson (Lagrangeville/Arlington) and
Adam Mieczkowski (Vestal) both went 1-for-3, with Mieczkowski hitting a double for his hit.
Dylan Tierney (East Greenbush/Columbia) had Cortland's sixth hit.
Starting pitcher
Tyler Blake (Cortland) took the loss and was charged with six earned runs over 1.2 innings.
Warren Miller (Plattsburgh) tossed 3.2 innings in relief, allowing just one run and striking out three batters, while
Talon Elkins (Syracuse/West Genesee) allowed only one hit over the final 2.2 innings with three strikeouts.
Jace Clay pitched effectively for Trinity to win the win, striking out eight batters and scattering six hits and allowing just the two runs over 7.1 innings. Jack Briese did not allow a batter to reach base over the final 1.2 innings to secure the win. Nicholas Lazzara hit a home run and drove in two runs to lead the Tigers.
Cortland scored one run in the top of the first, before Trinity responded with two runs in the bottom of the first and four more in the bottom of the second. The Red Dragons scored once in the top of the third, and Trinity completed the scoring with one run in the fifth inning.
Stockhausen hammered a solo homer to left field with one out in the top of the first inning to give Cortland a 1-0. The lead did not last long, as Lazzara hit his second two-run home run in as many days with one out in the bottom of the frame. The damage could've been worse if not for a strong defensive play by Jackson at second base to catch a Trinity baserunner who had over-run second base on a hit by the batter before Lazzara's homer.
The Tigers struck for four runs, all with two outs in the bottom of the second inning. Trinity loaded the bases with one out on two hits and a walk, before Blake recorded a strikeout for the second out. A wild pitch allowed one run to score, and Blake was relieved by
Eli Stowe (Poughkeepsie/Millbrook). Stowe could not find the strike zone, and the Tigers drew three consecutive run-scoring walks before Miller came in to record the final out of the inning.
Stockhausen drilled his second home run of the game with two outs in the third inning. The junior lined a ball deep to right field, where the ball fortuitously bounced off the glove of the right fielder and over the fence for a home run.
Trinity completed the scoring with a run on a Kaleb Woodward RBI single up the middle in the bottom of the fifth inning.
Mieczkowski had a two-out double the left field line for Cortland in the sixth, but was left stranded. Jackson was the last baserunner to reach for the Red Dragons with a two-out single to right field in the seventh, as Cortland was unable to mount a comeback.
