FREDONIA, N.Y. - The Cortland softball team remained unbeaten in SUNYAC play with a doubleheader sweep at Fredonia. The Red Dragons eked out a 1-0 win in the opener and won 11-2 in the nightcap to improve to 10-12 overall and 6-0 in the conference.
 
Cortland will host Morrisville in a league doubleheader Friday at 3 p.m.
 
Cortland 1, Fredonia 0
 
Cortland scored an unearned run in the top of the first and held on the rest of the way for the victory. McKenna Barry (Clifton Park/Shenendehowa) evened her record at 4-4 with the win, allowing three hits and three walks in six-plus innings. Gianna Endieveri (Glens Falls) entered with a runner on and no outs in the seventh and earned her first save. She induced a fielder's choice force out, followed by a strikeout, and after Fredonia's Mia Elckhoff stole second, Endieveri struck out another batter to end the game.
 
Halle Wright (Ballston Spa) finished 2-for-3, Barry drew two walks and Shelby LaMont (Amsterdam) and Lainie Ornstein (Yorktown Heights/Yorktown) each went 1-for-3.
 
Fredonia's Kendall Phillips allowed six hits and four walks and fanned six batters in seven innings. Brooke Caldwell, Allie Wandell and Avery Hill each finished 1-for-3 and Madison Lowe drew two walks.
 
Cortland's first-inning run came via a Wright single, a wild pitch and a dropped fly ball. The Red Dragons eventually left 11 runners on base in the game - two each in the first four innings and one each during the final three frames. Fredonia threatened in the second when Hill led off with a double and Lowe walked, but Hill was erased on a flyout double play and another flyout ended the threat.
 
Cortland 11, Fredonia 2
 
Endieveri, coming off her save in the opener, started Game 2 and went four innings for the win to improve to 5-3. She gave up no runs on three hits and one walk with three strikeouts. Molly Farley (Goshen/Chester Academy) allowed two unearned runs over two innings with two hits, two walks and one strikeout and Sophia Wahl (Schuylervill) retired the side in order in the seventh.
 
Cortland finished with 14 hits. Kayla Pendergast (West Hempstead) and Laila Smith (Guilderland) each hit their first collegiate homers. Pendergast finished 2-for-4 with a homer, triple and four RBI and Smith was 2-for-5 with a homer, RBI and two runs. Wright finished a homer shy of hitting for the cycle, ending 3-for-5 with a triple, double, RBI and three runs scored. Maggie Cummings (Holland Patent) was 2-for-4 with two RBI, Kaeli McAnally (Islip) finished 2-for-4 and Barry was 1-for-3 with a hit by pitch and two RBI.
 
Fredonia (7-13, 5-3 SUNYAC) was led by Kayla Lynn, who went 1-for-2 with a double and RBI, and Lowe, who was 1-for-1 with two walks. Sabrina Edwards-Smith allowed four runs, three earned, in the first inning and a third.
 
Cortland took a 2-0 lead in the first on a Cummings two-run single and added two in the second on Barry's two-run single. Smith homered in the fourth to make it 5-0 and Pendergast tripled in a run in the fifth to extend the lead to 6-0.
 
Fredonia posted its two runs in the bottom of the fifth on Lynn's RBI double and a dropped fly ball. The Red Dragons busted open the game with five runs in the seventh, starting with Pendergast's three-run homer. Wright later tripled in a run and scored on a throwing error during the play.