CORTLAND, NY – Marc Stockhausen (Bronx/St. Raymond) hit a grand slam in the fifth inning, and Nick Marola (Saratoga/Scotia-Glenville) set a tournament record with four doubles, as the top-seeded Cortland baseball team opened the 2025 State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) Baseball Tournament with a 6-3 victory over fourth-seeded Oneonta on Thursday afternoon at Wallace Field.

Cortland improves to 27-11 on the year, and will face third-seeded Oswego on Saturday at 10 a.m. Oneonta will face second-seeded New Paltz in an elimination game at 1 p.m. on Saturday.
 
Marola went 4-for-4 with his four doubles, and added two runs scored and one RBI. Stockhausen was 1-for-4, and his four RBI extended his team lead to 41 on the year. Talon Elkins (Syracuse/West Genesee) and Dylan Tierney (East Greenbush/Columbia) each batted 2-for-4.
 
Luis Misla (Tampa, FL/Riverview) started and tossed 5.0 innings and allowed two earned runs with nine strikeouts to record the win in his eighth straight start. Nick Hanson (Ladera Ranch, CA/Aliso Niguel) pitched two innings and allowed one run. Tommy Lynch (West Seneca/Canisius) and Zack Zarrilli (Farmingdale) combined to toss a scoreless eighth, and Matthew Nochowitz (Glen Head/North Shore) pitched a scoreless ninth inning to record the save.
 
Anthony Foglia went 2-3 with two home runs and drove in all three Oneonta runs. Josh Gilkey had a hit and scored a run. Starting pitcher James Torres took the loss for Oneonta, surrendering five runs in five innings. Martin Thorsland tossed 2.0 scoreless innings in relief.
 
Cortland struck first with a run in the bottom of the second inning. After the first two batters of the inning were retired, Mitchell Kelly (Webster/Webster Thomas) laced a double to deep right field. Marola followed with the first of his doubles, a line drive into left center to score the run.
 
Misla was able to pitch out of trouble in the third and fourth innings, stranding runners on second and third in the third inning, and leaving the bases loaded in the fourth by inducing a flyout by Foglia to center.
 
In the top of the fifth, Oneonta scored twice to take a 2-1 lead. Gilkey laced a one-out single into right field, and Foglia followed with a deep two-run homer to right field.
 
Cortland immediately responded with four runs in the bottom half to re-gain the lead. Marola led off with a double down the left field line, and Chris Bonacci (Syracuse/West Genesee) drew a four-pitch walk. Lucas Granger (Horseheads) beat out a bunt single to load the bases, before Stockhausen hammered a grand slam down the left field line on the first pitch he saw to make it 5-2.
 
Hanson entered to pitch in the sixth inning for Cortland and retired the side in order in the sixth and seventh innings, including striking out the side in the sixth. In the eighth inning, he allowed a leadoff homer to Foglia and a walk, before Lynch came on in relief to retire two batters on a fielder's choice and a flyout. Zarrilli entered into the game in a lefty-specialist situation against the left-handed hitting Brendan Duffy, and struck out Duffy looking to keep the game at 5-3.
 
Marola hit his fourth double of the game on a grounder down the left field line leading off the eighth inning. He moved to third on a sacrifice bunt by Bonacci, and came in to score on Adam Mieczkowski's RBI single to left for a 6-3 Cortland lead.
 
Nochowitz entered the game in the ninth and pitched into trouble after allowing two walks and allowing another runner to reach on his own fielding error, before striking out the final batter with the tying run on base to secure the win.