CORTLAND, N.Y. - The Cortland softball team opened SUNYAC play with a pair of shutout victories over visiting Canton. The Red Dragons won both games by 11-0 scores, each called after five innings due to the eight-run rule.
 
Cortland (6-12, 2-0 SUNYAC) will host Oswego in a league doubleheader Monday at noon. That twinbill was originally scheduled for Saturday before being postponed by rain.
 
Cortland 11, Canton 0 (5 inn.)
 
McKenna Barry (Clifton Park/Shenendehowa) and Sophia Wahl (Schuylerville) combined on a 1-hit shutout. Barry went three perfect innings, striking out six batters, to improve to 2-4 on the season. Wahl allowed one hit and fanned five over the final two innings. Ava Hayes broke up Cortland's no-hit bid with a single to the hole between short and third with one out in the top of the fifth.
 
Cortland finished with 15 hits. Barry was 3-for-3 with an RBI, Maggie Cummings (Holland Patent) hit a three-run homer and finished 2-for-2 with a walk and Lainie Ornstein (Yorktown Heights/Yorktown) was 2-for-2 with two runs scored. Halle Wright finished 2-for-3 with a double, two RBI and two runs, Laila Smith (Guilderland) went 2-for-3 with a double, walk, RBI and two runs, and Kaeli McAnally (Islip) finished 2-for-3 with a double and two runs. Shannon Scotto (Putnam Valley/Lakeland) drove in three runs.
 
Canton's Ace Rogers went four innings in the circle, allowing 11 runs, six earned.
 
Smith doubled in a run and Scotto plated a run with a groundout in the first. Cortland's six-run second featured a Wright sac fly, with a second run scoring on the play due to an error, followed later by a Barry RBI single and a Cummings three-run homer - her first collegiate round-tripper. Wright singled in a run and Scotto hit a two-run single in the third.
 
Cortland 11, Canton 0 (5 inn.)
 
Gianna Endieveri (Glens Falls) and Molly Farley (Goshen/Chester Academy) teamed for a two-hit shutout in Game 2. Endieveri went the first three innings for the victory, allowing two hits and one walk and striking out seven batters. She improved to 3-3 on the season. Farley gave up one walk and a hit batter and struck out three over the last two innings.
 
Rogers went the distance again for Canton (0-15, 0-4 SUNYAC). Torie Moore and Sarah Balcom each went 1-for-2 for the Roos, with Moore also drawing a walk. Endieveri escaped a first-and-third jam with a strikeout in the first, and Canton had runners on first and second with one out in the fifth before Farley ended the game with a flyout and strikeout.
 
Cortland totaled 13 hits, with five players recording two apiece. Wright was 2-for-2 with two walks, two steals, two RBI and two runs scored. Ornstein finished 2-for-2 with an RBI and two runs, Julz Koch (New City/Clarkstown South) was 2-for-3 with four RBI, McAnally went 2-for3 with two runs scored and Smith finished 2-for-4 with an RBI and two runs. Cummings was 1-for-3 with a double and RBI.
 
The Red Dragons opened with two in the first on RBI doubles by Scotto and Cummings. Wright and Koch each had two-run singles in a four-run second, and Cortland's five-run third featured an Ornstein RBI single, with a second run scoring on the play after Ornstein got into a rundown, along with a Smith RBI single and a Koch two-run single.