BB: SUNYAC

[jdex]

Oswego back in action Monday afternoon at Liberty League leading RIT and cruises to a 16-6 victory. Lakers by 7-0 into Tech's fourth. Six-run eighth allows daylight. B. Hamilton 4x5, 2r, 5bi, 2bh; J. Giller 3x5, r, 4bi, 2bh. Five Oswegos take a turn on the mound. M. Kelly works the first two, T. Cronin the following pair. P. Brown closes. Oswego 16 hits, two errors; RIT 10 hits, five errors
Oswego 24-8 and hosting Ithaca Tuesday. RIT 19-9

Liberty quite the scramble what with Rochester dropping three of four weekend scraps to Clarkson. RIT currently 13-4 (19-8 overall), UR 15-5 (24-11), RPI 15-5 (17-13), Clarkson 13-5 (20-6), Union 11-9 (18-12). Upcoming weekend four-game series have RIT at RPI, UR at Union, St. Larries at Union. Top four to conference playoffs and nat'l tourney berth for winner

Cortland (32-2) gains a bit more D3 No. 1 support, polling 22 first place votes. Frostburg (32-3) second with 3 first place ballots. Wisc-Whitewater (25-4) third, Birmingham-So. (34-8-1) fourth, Salisbury (25-4) fifth. Former No. 5 Kean (28-10) slips to ninth. Oswego among others with votes.
   Cortland home Tuesday vs. Cazenovia, Brockport home Tuesday vs. Rochester and Wednesday vs. RIT, Oneonta home vs. Elmira while Plattsburgh is at Norwich VT for dh

[jdex]

Cortland captures 15th straight win in 11-2 fashion vs. visiting Cazenovia. Caz grabs shortlived 1-0 lead in the second. Corts quickly answer with two runs ignited by A. Clock double (3x4, 2r, bi, 2 2bh). Add three scores in the third. Finishes with 15 hits, no errors. M. Michalski 2x3, r, bi, 2bh; N. Hart 2x3, 2bi; P. Schetter 2x2, bi; C. Ziemendorf 0x0, 2r, 3w, sb. Cortland uses four pitchers. N. Benedetto opens and works 4.1 innings. P. Healy, J. Martin, R. McAlary have stints. Caz six hurlers led by S. King's 2.2 innings. Caz with six hits, two errors.
Cortland 33-2, Cazenovia 10-17

Oswego stunned by five-run Ithaca ninth and loses 6-4 in Oswego. Lakers take 4-1 lead into the final frame. Tallies three times in the third on throwing error, W. Randall rbi single, E. Hamilton sac fly. T. Thompson (3x4) homers in the fourth for IC. IC strings six hits into five-run climactic ninth. R. Henchey with two-run single to left. D. Boresta base hit to short ties it. C. Belyea sac fly to center precedes C. Brown rbi double to left. Oswego uses three pitchers in the ninth, M. Putillo getting the worst of IC attack. J. Wagner closes for Bombers. Z. Dickstein works seven, T. Hill the eighth. C. Arcuri pitches for OSt. through five innings. R. Donnelly with three strong innings. D. Kohlman starts the ninth. Exits quickly
Oswego 24-9. Ithaca 14-13

Brockport whacks Rochester 6-2. Eagles score in the third on C. Davis rbi single for 1-0 edge. UR within 3-2 after 7 1/2. Eagles get three in the home eighth. D. Stackhouse hurls for the Eagles for five innings (0r, 2h, 1w, 5k). N. Pontari, S. Kawalski, N. Jerolimov finish. C. Davis 2x4, r, bi, 2bh; S. Peake 2x2, bi. D. Strandberg starts for UR.
Brockport 19-14. Rochester 24-12

Oneonta on short end of 11-4 contest vs. Elmira. Pioneers score six times in the fifth inning. Elmira with 13 hits, one error. OSt nine hits, five errors
Oneonta 7-23. Elmira 3-27

Plattsburgh sweeps Norwich 7-3, 6-3 in VT. Cardinals credited with four runs in the fifth innings of each seven inning game. Those bursts overcome deficits. In the first game salvo F. Buksa (3x4, r, 3bi) doubles to right to send home the tying run before TJ Montalbano pokes a two-run single. B. Latulipe 3x4, 2r; B. Rombauts 2x3, bi. S. 'I' Orr raises his pitching mark to 6-3 (7inn, 3er, 2w, 3k). In the key fourth inning of the second game Montalbano and T. Bulich contribute rbi blows. Latulipe, M. Krogh with two hits each. Only one earned run for each side. A. Kramer the pitching winner (6.1inn, 8h, 0w, 5k). N. Lupo relieves
Plattsburgh 14-20. Norwich 7-20

[jdex]

Oneonta bounces back, whips Mount St. Mary 8-0 in Oneonta. OSt embarrassed yesterday by Elmira. Senior K. Jordan tosses Wednesday shutout with two-hitter (9inn, 1w, 2k) in farewell appearance. Visitors get one-out infield single in the fourth and leadoff double in the eighth. RDragons breathe three-run fire in the third on an error, sac fly and J. Franke double. Oneonta manages 12 hits, one error. M. Cruz 2x5, bi, 2 2bh; S. Mullins 2x4, r; Franke 2x3, r, bi, 2bh; C. Kerdesky 2x2, r, 2bi; L. Gizzarelli 2x4, bi, 2bh
Oneonta 8-23. MSM 11-18
Oneonta home game Thursday vs. Ithaca canceled. IC, 11 inning winner over St. Lawrence, is 15-13 and hosting Nat'l tourney hopeful Stevens in three weekend games

Brockport bows 8-7 to RIT at the Port. RIT strikes for four runs in the sixth to overcome 7-4 Eagles edge built on four-run fifth. C. Davis 2x5, E. Carrera 2bi. D. Fera in three inning stint leads five Bport pitchers. Third hurler K. Perez absorbs the loss. RIT's S. Flanagan 3x5, r, 2bi. Guests use a handful of pitchers. Port seven hits, no errors. RIT 14 hits, two errors
Brockport 19-15. RIT 20-9

Fredonia at home beats Penn St-Behrend 6-3 to avenge earlier setback. Three-run eighth carries Blue Devils to victory. R. Mendiola, K. Sherman, S. Zaprowski hits decisive. Freds escape bases loaded PS-B jam. Two runs in. M. Wilhelm leaves 'em loaded with flyout to right. Six Devils pitchers. Mendiola 2x2, r, bi, 2bh. Fredonia 10 hits, two errors. PS-B 11 hits, two errors
Fredonia 14-17. PS-B 23-10-1

ABCA (coaches) weekly poll returns Cortland to No. 1 followed by familiar four of Frostburg MD, Wisc-Whitewater, Salisbury MD, Birmingham-So AL. Latter pair switch slots from previous week among top 30. Oswego goes from 29 to 30. Liberty's Clarkson, Empire 8's Stevens NJ receive votes.

Just how deep is this Cortland crew? Backup OFer Fabio Ricci on this week's D3 Team of the Week. During RDragon 5-0 week the junior Ricci 7x8 with 3w, 6r, 2bh, 3bh in the four games he appeared. He reached base in his first 10 plate appearances (7h, 3w)

[jdex]

Cortland puts down Fredonia 14-5 in first game of double elimination tourney at Cortland. Corts have four-run first. M. DeMilio opens with a triple. Hosts score seven in the fifth. B. Serio pitches 7.1 innings for CSt (1r, 0er, 0w, 5k) ub 82 pitch effort. N. Hart 3x3, 4bi; DeMilio 2x4, 2r, 2bh, 3bh, hbp; A. Clock 1x3, r, 3bi, 2bh; A. Simon 2x4, 2r; P. Schetter 2bi. Blue Devils' J. Harford starts, leaves after one inning. Cortland 15 hits, three errors. Freds six hits, one error and scores four in the ninth. Cortland top seed, Fredonia No. 4
Cortland 34-2, Fredonia 14-18.
Fredonia faces Oswego  in Saturday morning elimination go

Third seed Brockport hangs  for 8-7 victory over No. 2 Oswego. Bport breaks 2-2 tie with six-run fifth inning. Sends 11 to the plate, six hit safely. Chase Laker starter M. Kelly. G. Ruddy (3x6, r, 3bi, 2bh, 3bh) triples home two off reliever P. Brown who otherwise serves well. Oswego then closes the gap, capitalizing on shoddy Brockport defense -- five errors with three in two-run OSt eighth inning to close within the final score. J. Prouse starts for Bport. Yields in the sixth to ace D. Stackhouse. Eagles with 17 hits, Oswego 13. Port's Ruddy, W. Burghardt, J. Craig, J. Keaney with three hits apiece. B. Hamilton 3x4 for Oswego
Brockport 20-15, Oswego 24-10
Brockport vs. Cortland early Saturday afternoon in winners bracket


Cortland first in NCAA NY Region list this week. Oswego second, Brockport fifth

[jdex]

Oswego eliminates Brockport 11-4 and will go against Cortland on Sunday needing to beat the RDragons twice in tourney double elimination play at CSt. Clash Sunday. Monday game if needed. Lakers put up five runs in the third and seventh innings. Collect 15 hits behind R. Donnelly (3-1) near complete game (8.2 inn, 4r, 1er, 8h, 6w, 3k). Leadoff bat D. Saccocio 2x5, 2r, 3bi, hr; J. Rauseo 3x4, r; w. Randall 4x4, r, bi. Port's T. Clifford the LP (6.2inn, 8r, 8er, 11h, 1w, 0k)
Oswego 26-10, Brockport 20-17

Cortland downs Brockport 8-1. RDragon pitcher S. Lamando loses no-hit bid when W. Burghhardt doubles to left with one-out in the ninth.  Removed after 117 pitches for A. Brant who yields J. Craig rbi single. Lamando walks two, fans 11. Corts open things up with four runs in the seventh, two in the eighth in winners bracket game of double elimination tourney at CSt Wallace Field. Corts score one in the fifth on A. Clock (3x4, r, bi, 2bh), one in the sixth on V. Bomasuto sac fly, and four in the seventh on P. Schetter (2x3, 3bi) rbi single, Bomasuto two-run single and Port error. Schetter, in the lineup when 3b M. Michalski departs with injury, triples home two in the eighth. Lamanda retires the first 12 Porters. Z. Lander gives way after 6.1 innings (5r, 5er, 8h, 2w, 1k). Corts with 13 hits, three errors that allow Eagles to threaten when contest was scoreless. Port with two hits, one error. D. Castaldo 2x2, r; N. Hart 2x3, r; M. DeMilio 2r
Cortland 35-2, Brockport 20-16

Oswego lives. Bumps off Fredonia 9-5 in tourney elimination game at Cortland where Laker J. Giller 4x5, 2r, 5bi, hr.
Oswego stakes out 6-0 lead through five frames. Fredonia closes to 6-4 with four-run seventh featuring R. Mendiola two-run single. Giller leads off OSt seventh with home run. Freds get one back without a hit in the eighth. Leave bases loaded when just-inserted M. Putillo's first pitch results in a groundout. Oswego strikes for two insurance runs in the eighth. Three hit batters load the bases before Giller two-run single. Oswego with three homers -- Giller, E. Hamilton (in first inning) and R. Donnelly.
B. Karinchak pitches 6.1 innings for Oswego (4r, 3er, 10h, 2w, 9k, 122 pitches). C. LaFlamme, Putillo follow. Z. Jordon works 4.1 innings for Freds (6r, 5er, 11h, 1w, 3k). J. DiLeo, B. Gauthier out of the pen. Q. Danahy 3x5, r for Freds. Winners with 13 hits, two errors; BDevils 13 hits, one err
Oswego 25-10, Fredonia 14-19.

[jdex]

Cortland captures another conference tourney pennant -- its 33rd, with 10-3 spilling of Oswego at CSt Wallace Field. RDragons off to quick 5-0 lead by the second inning. Oswego within 7-3 and fills the bases with no outs in the sixth. Scores once and Cortland RF D. Castaldo diving catch the third out. RDragons M. DeMilio (4x5, 3r, 2bi) and V. Bomasuto hit home runs in the bottom of the sixth. Oswego leaves bases loaded in the eighth.
Laker J. Rauseo (4x4) homers in the fourth. A. Weingarten on the RDragon hill (5inn, 3r, 3er, 6h, 2w, 3k) until relieved by A. Brant in the sixth. He extinguishes OSt uprising. Bomasuto closes and as dh goes 2z2, r, 3bi, hr, sac bt, sf, hbp. P. Schetter 2x4, r; F. Ricci 2x4, r, bi; C. Ziemendorf 2x4, r, w. C. Arcuri lasts an inning for Oswego. JM Guarino takes over. A. Stuart and Kohlman finish
Cortland with automatic bid to NCAA tourney regional which it hosts in Auburn. Oswego no doubt in tourney as well
CSter M. DeMilio the tourney mvp
Cortland 36-3, Oswego 27-11

Oswego forces one-game-winner-take-all tourney game with earlier Sunday 3-1 streak stopping win over Cortland at CSt Wallace Field in first game Sunday. T. Cronin pitches complete game win with 117 throws. Gives six hits, three walks, three hbp and fans two. Strands 10 RDragons and halts their 17 game winning streak that started April 7 with 10-inning victory over the Lakers in Cortland.
Oswego scores in the fourth and eighth innings on wild pitches. Cortland cuts the advantage to 2-1 in its eighth before W. Randall walk, stolen base, sac bunt and K. Simmons rbi single to center vs. reliever T. Brien adds daylight. B. McClain (7inn, 1r, 1er, 7h, 2w, 1k, 105 pitches) goes for Cortland till T. Laitar out of the pen. Cortland strikes on C. Ziemendorf double and A. Simon bad hop rbi single to center. Oswego with nine hits, seven LOB. Randall 3x3, w;  B. Hamilton 2x5 for the Lakers. Cortland with the game's lone error.

[jdex]

Cortland adds Wednesday home game with St. John Fisher. Fisher 15-3 in last 18 games (21-17 overall) including today's come-from-behind 8-6 win over RIT. Plays at Brockport tomorrow in a busy week in an apparent bid to build a resume worthy of an NCAA tourney regional at-large selection. Beyond the Cortland game SJF heads to Utica for the Empire 8 tourney (no automatic Nat'l bid at stake)

Stevens of the Empire 8 drops Monday evening 6-5 decision at Rutgers-Camden to wind up the Ducks' regular season. Also hopeful of regional at-large consideration, Stevens is 27-12. Lost 2-of-3 vs. Ithaca (17-14) over the weekend while Fisher went 2-1 vs. Houghton (17-20).

Today's Oswego home game vs. Clarkson canceled. Lakers entertain Cazenovia in Wednesday twinbill

[jdex]

Brockport blitzed by St. John Fisher 18-4 at the Port. First six SJF batters with 13 of Cardinals 20 hits. Fisher with 10 earned runs. Sloppy play early. SJF with 6-3 lead in the third vs. Port ace D. Stackhouse who yields  C. Woolhiser  three-run HR, S. Barley solo HR. J. Kenney leads off third with HR to left for Brockport. Fisher pours over eight runs in the sixth inning on six hits, two errors. Three scores come on J. Vivinetto home run. Reliever N. Pontari takes brunt of Fisher spree. D. Pisciotto on the Fisher slab for five innings. Bport nine hits, four errors
Fisher at Cortland Wednesday
Fisher 22-17. Brockport 20-17


Cortland takes all but one of 25 first place ballots to keep No. 1 D3 weekly top 25 poll slot with 36-3 record through Sunday voting. Frostburg MD 35-5 second, Wisc-Whitewater (1 No. 1) 30-7 third, Salisbury MD 27-4 fourth, Kean NJ 32-10 fifth. Oswego, Clarkson and Stevens receives votes in media poll

ABCA (coaches) weekly top 30 poll finds the above first four the same. Baldwin-Wallace OH (31-8) fifth and Kean NJ gains from 10th to sixth. Former No. 5 Birmingham-So ALA goes from fifth to 11th. Oswego leads others receiving votes. Clarkson also mentioned

[FranElia]

I want to apologize for forgetting to place nominations this week for Team of the Week. Of course there's no guarantee Seth Lamando would have been chosen if I did nominate him, but he would have had a good chance. I just totally forgot about the nomination until after the deadline had passed.

Fran Elia
Cortland SID

[magicman]

You're excused Fran. Just don't let it happen again.   Congratulations to you and jdex for the SUNYAC championship once again and also for the #1 ranking that the Red Dragons have held onto for so long. Good luck in the Regionals and beyond (I hope).

Good luck to the Women's softball team, also SUNYAC Champions as they host a regional this weekend. 

Good luck also today to the SUNYAC Champion Men's Lacrosse team against Springfield. Go Red Dragons.

And last but not least I hope the SUNYAC Champions Women's Lacrosse team can bring home the Walnut and Bronze this year.

Heady times in Cortland (and Auburn) this week and next with all 4 teams hosting NCAA tournament games. Wish I lived there so I could watch them all.   

[jdex]

Cortland today with an added home game with St. John Fisher. Hmmmmmmm ..........Obviously means much to the Cardinals, who embarrassed a decent Brockport yesterday at the Port. Fisher with 16 wins in its last 19 games and certainly trying to impress NCAA playoff regional inspectors. Guess here is strong finish in the upcoming Empire 8 tourney, alongside a strong SOS (currently 53) will assure a berth no matter today's outcome.

Cortland no doubt will be ready to go, though coach Joe Brown's priority is getting his troupe ready for next week's regional. He has already attained a major goal -- taking the automatic NCAA slot by capturing the conference. Has always been RDragons primary target to this date. Would figure Fisher will see a predetermined pitching rotation, most likely not including top four starters

Oswego home doubleheader today vs. Cazenovia canceled. As we stated at the conclusion of conference tourney, Lakers an NCAA lock. Just saw where their SOS is 14!

[Bombsquad]

The SOS that is listed on the D3baseball page from what I understand is not the same one/formula that is used to determine final schedule strength.  I want to say we went around on this on here in the past in regards to a possible Ithaca bid.  Maybe John McGraw knows more on this? 

[jdex]

The SOS that is listed on the D3baseball page from what I understand is not the same one/formula that is used to determine final schedule strength.  I want to say we went around on this on here in the past in regards to a possible Ithaca bid.  Maybe John McGraw knows more on this?

Below preludes D3 updated team-by-team SOS:

The NCAA Division III postseason selection committee determines strength of schedule using opponents' winning percentage and opponents' opponents' winning percentage. A team's SOS is two-thirds opponents' winning percentage (OWP) and one-third opponents' opponents' winning percentage (OOWP).
Those numbers follow, calculated by PrestoSports.

We've sorted these teams by their strength of schedule. This is only part of the process used to determine who will get selected to the NCAA Tournament.

Records and winning percentage are based on in-region games only. OWP: Opponents' winning percentage. OOWP: Opponents' opponents' winning percentage. SOS: two-thirds OWP and one-third OOWP.

[jdex]

Cortland bows 12-8 to St. John Fisher and its 25 hit barrage against nine RDragon pitchers at C-land. Cardinals overcome 8-6 deficit after six innings.  M. Kelsey opens SJF seventh with home run to left. V. Bomasuto relieves and yields four straight Fisher singles to take charge. Cards have four-run second, Corts five-run fourth. Not one of Cortland hurlers has much luck. Every SJF starter contributes a hit and eight have multi-hit games. C. Woolhiser 4x5, 2r, 3bi; M. Cahill 4x6, 2r, bi; M. Kelsey 4x6, 2r, bi. Three others with three hits each. J. Amann goes five for Cards who summon top reliever K. Berge in the sixth. He quiets the host. Cortland gets leadoff HR by D. Castaldo. Only four Dragon runs earned. SJF with four errors. Corts with 13 hits, no errors. A. Simon 3x5, r, 2bi
Cortland 36-4. Fisher 23-17 and opening Empire 8 tourney Thursday at host Utica

[Bombsquad]

Thanks JDEX.  Fisher making a case it seems.  Dangerous team, for some reason has struggled at times but this little stretch of games and the results could be a real testament to pitching depth.  I looked at the box scores, they have their better starters still in the tank for the conference tournament.