CANTON, N.Y. - Luke Schartner (Bayport/Bayport-Blue Point) tied a school single-game record with nine runs batted in as the Red Dragons defeated host Canton, 16-4, in the opening game of a SUNYAC doubleheader. The Red Dragons completed the sweep of the Roos with a 14-0 win in the nightcap.
 
The first game was called after seven innings due to the SUNYAC's 10-run rule. Cortland led 9-0 in the second game before scoring five times in the top of the ninth.
 
Cortland (20-10, 10-3 SUNYAC) has won 10 straight games and has reached the 20-win mark for the 35th straight full season (the 2020 season was canceled after 11 games). Cortland and Canton are scheduled to complete their three-game series Saturday at Canton, with the start time now pushed back to 1 p.m.
 
Cortland 16, Canton 4 (7 inn.)
 
Schartner finished the opener 3-for-5 with a homer, double and nine RBI. His nine RBI ties the school single-game record set by both Gary Costanzo at New Paltz in the fall of 1976 (when fall games counted toward school records) and by Dan Myers at New Paltz in 1993. Myers hit for the cycle in his nine-RBI effort.
 
Schartner hit three-run doubles in both the second and fourth innings and hit a three-run homer in the fifth. He grounded out to short to lead off the top of the seventh in his final plate appearance.
 
Danny Jackson (Lagrangeville/Arlington) hit his first collegiate homer and finished with two RBI and two runs scored (he also homered in the second game). Nolan Smith (Hamburg) finished 2-for-3 with a triple, RBI and two runs, Chris Bonacci (Syracuse/West Genesee) went 2-for-3 with a walk and two runs, Dylan Tierney (East Greenbush/Columbia) homered and finished 2-for-5 with two runs and Mitchell Kelly (Webster/Webster Thomas) doubled and drove in two runs.
 
Also for the Red Dragons, Mark Stockhausen (Bronx/St. Raymond) was 1-for-1 with three walks and three runs scored and Talon Elkins (Syracuse/West Genesee) went 1-for-3 with a walk and two runs scored.
 
Luis Misla (Tampa, FL/Riverview) improved to 7-2 with five innings of three-hit ball. He gave up three runs, two earned, with three walks and 10 strikeouts. Misla recorded double-figure strikeouts for the fourth straight game and the fifth time overall this season. Cam Darrow (South Glens Falls) tossed the final two innings and allowed two hits and one run with three strikeouts and no walks in his first appearance of the season.
 
Mark Baybee, Jr. was 1-for-2 with a walk, AJ Campi finished 1-for-3 with a walk and Sal Diaz and Ellezer Vazquez each drove in a run for Canton. Hunter LaValley allowed 14 runs, but only four earned, over four and two thirds innings.
 
Cortland went up 6-0 in the second on a Smith RBI triple, a Jackson two-run homer and Schartner's three-run double. Tierney hit a solo homer in a two-run third, and Schartner's three-run double in the fourth made it 10-1. Kelly drove in his runs with a double in the sixth and a sacrifice fly in the seventh.
 
Cortland 14, Canton 0
 
Matthew Nochowitz (Glen Head/North Shore) pushed his record to 3-0 in the second game with seven shutout innings. He allowed five hits and no walks and fanned 11 batters. Tommy Lynch (West Seneca/Canisius) struck out five of the six batters he faced over two perfect innings to complete the combined shutout.
 
Schartner continued his hot hitting, finished 3-for-6 with a solo homer, double and two runs scored. Zachary Kringdon (Larchmont/Mamaroneck) was 2-for-4 with a homer, triple, two RBI and two runs and Kelly was 2-for-3 with a walk, hit by pitch and RBI. Jackson homered, walked twice and drove in three runs in five plate appearances. Tierney went 2-for-5 with an RBI and two runs, Elkins was 1-for-3 with a double, walk, RBI and two runs, and Stockhausen drove in four runs despite going 0-for-2; he plated runs with a bases-loaded hit by pitch and two sacrifice flies, one of which scored two runs.
 
Diaz, Bradley Mills, Lance Phillips Jr. and Alphonse Fuca each went 1-for-3 for Canton (6-18, 3-10 SUNYAC). Javier Chico started and allowed eight runs in four innings. Cortland scored four times in the second, once in the third and three times in the fourth to go up 8-0. The Red Dragons added a run in the seventh along with their five-run ninth.