CORTLAND, NY - The Cortland baseball team hammered out 16 runs to earn a 16-1 victory over Oneonta in the championship round of the 2025 State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) Baseball Tournament on Sunday on Wallace Field.

Cortland improves to 29-11 on the season, and earns an automatic berth into the NCAA Division III Tournament with the win. The Red Dragons will find out the location, and their opponent for the NCAA Regional, on Monday at noon on the NCAA Selection Show on NCAA.com. Oneonta finishes the season with a 25-17-1 record. 

Cortland finished with 16 hits in the contest, including a 3-for-4 performance with two RBI and two runs from Zachary Kringdon (Larchmont/Mamaroneck). JJ DeLawder (Hyde Park/Franklin D. Roosevelt) came off the bench to provide a three-run home run and a double in his two plate appearances. Talon Elkins (Syracuse/West Genesee) and Chris Bonacci (Syracuse/West Genesee) each batted 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored. Marc Stockhausen (Bronx/St. Raymond) batted 2-for-3 with two RBI and a run scored, while Nolan Smith (Hamburg) was 1-for-3 with a home run. 

Tournament MVP Nick Marola (Saratoga/Scotia-Glenville) went 1-for-2 with two walks, an RBI, and a run scored. He also broke the tournament single-game record with four doubles on Thursday in a win over Oneonta. Marola was joined on the SUNYAC All-Tournament Team by Elkins, Stockhausen, Smith, and Luis Misla (Tampa, FL/Riverview).

Dylan Beers (Highland Mills/Monroe-Woodbury) started for the Red Dragons, earning the win after tossing 3.0 scoreless innings with five strikeouts in a predetermined pitching rotation. Brady Mazzeo (Averill Park) pitched 4.0 scoreless innings in relief, allowing just one hit and striking out three. Ryan Banks (Woodbury/Syosset) gave up one run in one inning of work, and Will McCarthy (Farmingdale) tossed a scoreless ninth inning to close out the victory.  

Brendan Duffy had two of Oneonta's five hits, going 2-for-3 with a homer. Duffy was joined on the SUNYAC All-Tournament Team by Anthony Foglia, who went 1-for-3 on Saturday and homered twice on Thursday against Cortland, and pitchers Jake Quigley and Martin Thorsland, who each pitched on Saturday to help Oneonta advance to the championship round. 

Beers recorded three strikeouts for Cortland in a scoreless top of the first, and Cortland struck for four runs in the bottom half of the inning. Dominic Colarusso, Oneonta's starting pitcher, allowed a leadoff single up the middle by Elkins, and Bonacci followed with a bunt single. Stockhausen drilled a double into left center to drive in a run, and Kringdon sent an RBI single through the right side to make it 2-0. After a walk by Smith, Marola grounded an RBI single through the right side to extend the Cortland lead to 3-0, and Oneonta pulled Colarusso without getting an out. Cortland added another run in the inning on a fielder's choice by Dylan Tierney (East Greenbush/Columbia).

Cortland added five runs in the bottom of the fourth to blow the game open. Lucas Granger (Horseheads) led off with a walk, and came around to score after a throwing error on Elkins' bunt single. Bonacci then ripped an RBI double into left center, and Kringdon had an RBI single into left center. Adam Mieczkowski (Vestal) drove in two more runs with a double to right field.

Cortland scored a pair of unearned runs in the fifth on a sacrifice fly by Elkins and an RBI single by Stockhausen, and score two more times in the sixth on a leadoff homer to left center by Smith and a sacrifice fly by Tierney. 

Duffy led off the top of the eighth inning with a home run for Oneonta's lone run, and Cortland struck for three more runs in the bottom of the eighth on DeLawder's three-run homer to right field.

McCarthy worked around a leadoff single by Foglia in the ninth, retiring the next three batters in order to secure the win.  
 

2025 SUNYAC All-Tournament Team
Jacob Sanders, Oswego
Daniel Winchester, Oswego
Brendan Duffy, Oneonta
Anthony Foglia, Oneonta
Jake Quigley, Oneonta
Martin Thorsland, Oneonta
Talon Elkins, Cortland
Luis Misla, Cortland
Nolan Smith, Cortland
Marc Stockhausen, Cortland
MVP - Nick Marola, Cortland