SUNY Cortland Athletics

CANTON, N.Y. - The Cortland softball team posted its highest run total in 23 years in a 20-1 victory at Canton to completed a SUNYAC doubleheader sweep of the Roos. Cortland won the opening game, 16-1. Both games were called after five innings due to the eight-run rule.
 
Cortland (21-14, 12-4 SUNYAC) reached the 20-win mark for the 29th straight full season (the 2020 season was canceled after four games). The Red Dragons are in second place in the SUNYAC standings and wrap up the regular season with a doubleheader at Oswego Saturday at noon. Cortland needs one win over the Lakers to clinch the second seed in the six-team SUNYAC tournament next week at top-seeded New Paltz; the top two teams will be a part of a four-team double-elimination tournament after the third through sixth seeds play single-elimination games.
 
Cortland 16, Canton 1 (5 inn.)
 
Gianna Endieveri (Glens Falls) earned the victory with five innings of two-hit ball. She allowed one unearned run and no walks and matched her career high with 11 strikeouts.
 
Cortland finished with 18 hits. Shelby LaMont (Amsterdam) went 4-for-4 with three doubles, a walk, three RBI and four runs scored and Gabby Baumann (Colonie) was 3-for-3 with a double, three RBI and three runs. Sabrina Chapman (Franklin Square/H. Frank Carey) finished 2-for-3 with three RBI and two runs.
 
Also for the Red Dragons, Danielle DeBonis (Burnt Hills/Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake) went 2-for-4 with two doubles and four RBI and Anj Ferrara (Niskayuna) was 2-for-4 with two RBI. Morgan Ellerbrock (Colonie) ended 2-for-4 with two doubles, a hit by pitch and three runs scored, and Lillian Morse (Burnt Hills/Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake) was 2-for-5 with a double.
 
Ava Bouchey and Ivy Ostrander each went 1-for-2 for Canton.
 
Cortland scored five in the first on two-run singles by Chapman and DeBonis and a Ferrara RBI groundout, and the Red Dragons added two in the second on a LaMont RBI double and Baumann run-scoring single. Canton's run came via double steal of home by Bouchey and second by Ostrander in the bottom of the second.
 
LaMont hit a two-run single, Chapman recorded an RBI infield single, Baumann singled a run, an error allowed a run to score, and Ferrera hit an RBI single in a six-run third to 13-1. Cortland closed the scoring in the fourth on a Baumann RBI double and DeBonis two-run single.
 
Cortland 20, Canton 1 (5 inn.)
 
Kayla Santo (Franklin Square/Valley Stream North) went 5-for-5 with a homer, two doubles, four RBI and three runs scored to lead Cortland's 16-hit attack. She's the first Cortland player to register five hits in a game since Carin Piacente went 5-for-6 in a 22-11 win at Fredonia on April 26, 2003. That game also marked the last time the Red Dragons scored at least 20 runs in a game.
 
Emily Stavola (Somers) finished 3-for-3 with a walk and three runs scored. Laila Smith (Guilderland) was 2-for-3 with a walk, hit by pitch, three RBI and two runs, Sam Pusloskie (Clarence) went 2-for-4 with a walk, three RBI and two runs, and Kayla Pendergast (West Hempstead) finished 2-for-5 with a double, two RBI and two runs. Ferrara walked twice, drove in three runs and scored two runs, while Chapman and Emma Robins (Levittown/Division Avenue) each had a hit, RBI and two runs scored.
 
Sophia Wahl (Schuylerville) picked up the win in the circle after giving up two hits and one run in four innings. She struck out four batters and walked one. Kaitlyn Macumber (Deposit) retired the side in order with one strikeout in the fifth.
 
Bouchey and Bridgette Fox each had a hit, with Fox driving in the run for the Roos (2-24, 1-15 SUNYAC) with a leadoff homer in the second.
 
Santo opened Cortland's six-run second inning with a homer to left. Later in the inning, Smith was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded, a run scored on a wild pitch, Maggie Cummings (Holland Patent) grounded out to drive in a run, and Santo, in her second at-bat of the inning, hit a two-run double to center. Ferrara's sac fly in the third gave Cortland a 7-1 lead.
 
The Red Dragons sent 19 batters to the plate and scored 13 runs in the top of the fourth. The scoring started with a Robins RBI single, a Santo run-scoring double and a Chapman RBI single. Ferrara walked with the bases loaded, and Smith and Pusloskie each hit two-run singles. Emma Morley (Buchanan/Hendrick Hudson) drew a bases-loaded walk, Pendergast hit a two-run double, Ferrara picked up an RBI on a grounder, reaching on an error during the play, and Pusloskie capped the scoring with an RBI single.