PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. - Cortland's offense erupted for a combined 25 runs on 27 hits as the Red Dragaons swept host Plattsburgh, 9-1 and 16-2, in a SUNYAC softball doubleheader. The first game ended in six innings and the second game in five innings due to the eight-run rule.
 
Cortland (12-5, 4-0 SUNYAC) extended its winning streak to 11 games. The Red Dragons will host RPI in a non-league doubleheader Tuesday at 3 p.m.
 
Cortland 9, Plattsburgh 1 (6 inn.)
 
Shelby LaMont (Amsterdam) led Cortland's 12-hit attack by going 4-for-4 with a double and five runs batted in. She drove in at least one run in each of the four innings in which the Red Dragons scored. Katie Stork (Massapequa) was 2-for-3 with a walk and three runs scored, Laila Smith (Guilderland) finished 2-for-4 with two doubles, an RBI and two runs scored, and Maggie Cummings (Holland Patent)  was 1-for-2 with a double and a walk.
 
Gianna Endieveri (Glens Falls) improved to 5-2 after allowing just one hit and one walk in five shutout innings. She struck out five batters. Sophia Wahl (Schuylerville) gave up a hit and an unearned run in the sixth and struck out two.
 
Gwen Noll was 1-for-2 with a walk and Sara Isaacs went 1-for-3 with an RBI double for the Cardinals. Morgan Ormerod went the distance in the circle and gave up nine runs with three strikeouts and two walks.
 
LaMont's RBI single and Shannon Scotto's (Putnam Valley/Lakeland) sacrifice fly staked Cortland to a 2-0 lead in the first. Another LaMont run-scoring single made it 3-0 in the third, and the lead grew to 6-0 in the fifth on a LaMont two-run single and a Kaeli McAnally (Islip) RBI groundout.
 
The Red Dragons stretched their lead to 9-0 in the sixth on a Morgan Ellerbrock (Colonie) RBI single and RBI doubles by Smith and LaMont. Plattsburgh scored in the sixth on Isaacs' one-out RBI double, but Wahl retired the next two hitters on a strikeout and foul out to preserve the eight-run lead and end the game.
 
Cortland 16, Plattsburgh 2 (5 inn.)
 
Cortland struck early and often, sprinting to a 14-0 lead after two innings. The Red Dragons ended the game with 15 hits, paced by Scotto's 3-for-3 effort with a double, two RBI and two runs. Ellerbrock went 2-for-3 with a double, hit by pitch, three RBI and two runs, Smith was 2-for-4 with a walk, two RBI and three runs, and Stork finished 2-for-4 with two doubles and two runs.
 
Also for the Red Dragons, Cummings went 1-for-3 with a double, hit by pitch, two RBI and two runs, and LaMont was 1-for-2 with two walks and an RBI. LaMont finished the doubleheader 5-for-6 with two walks and six RBI.
 
Olivia DiSalvo (Scotch Plains, NJ/Scotch Plains-Fanwood) allowed two runs on four hits with three strikeouts and a walk over four innings to improve to 5-0 on the season. Molly Farley (Goshen/Chester Academy) pitched a scoreless fifth inning, giving up just one walk.
 
Isaacs went 2-for-2 with a double and Alyssa Hemingway was 1-for-2 with a double and two RBI for Plattsburgh (8-9, 2-2 SUNYAC). Cadey Wheat started and allowed six runs, five earned, in two thirds of an inning.
 
Cortland scored six runs in the top of the first. LaMont singled in a run, Cummings was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded, Kayla Pendergast (West Hempstead) drew a bases-loaded walk, and Emma Robins (Levittown/Division Avenue) hit a two-run single with the bases loaded, with a third run scoring on an error.
 
The Red Dragons continued the barrage with eight runs in the second. Scotto doubled in a run, Ellerbrock hit a two-run double and Cummings had an RBI double. Smith hit a two-run single and Scotto, on her second plate appearance in the inning, hit an RBI single. Cortland's last run scored on a two-out error.
 
Cortland put up two more runs in the fourth on RBI singles from Danielle DeBonis (Burnt Hills/Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake) and Ellerbrock. Plattsburgh tallied its two runs in the bottom of the fourth on Hemingway's two-run double.