ONEONTA, N.Y. – The Cortland baseball team clinched the SUNYAC regular-season title and earned the right to host the conference postseason tournament May 2-4 with a doubleheader sweep at Oneonta. The Red Dragons (25-7, 13-2 SUNYAC) won the opener, 17-0, and the second game, 11-4. Cortland has hosted the SUNYAC tournament every year since 1997.

Game 1: Cortland 17, Oneonta 0

Brandon McClain (Coram/Longwood) took a perfect game two outs into the fifth inning of the seven-inning opener before hitting a batter and allowing a single to Casey Kerdesky. McClain improved to 7-1 with five innings of one-hit ball. He struck out six and walked none. Travis Laitar (Fergus, ON/Centre Wellington) pitched a perfect sixth and Pat Bronson (Waverly) allowed a single but induced a double play grounder in a three-batter seventh.

Cortland scored six runs in the first inning on a P.J. Rinaldi (Bethel, CT) three-run homer, a Bryan Marotta (Clifton Park/Shenendehowa) RBI double and an Anthony Simon (Suffern/Don Bosco Prep (NJ) two-run single.

The lead grew to 10-0 in the fourth on four consecutive bases-loaded walks by Simon, Donny Castaldo (Mount Kisco/Fox Lane), Vinny Bomasuto (Dunkirk) and Matt Michalski (Buffalo/St. Francis). Two runs scored in the fifth on an error and a Marotta RBI single.

Cortland completed the scoring with five runs in the seventh. James Quinn (Guilderland) singled in a run, followed by an Austin Clock (Niskayuna) two-run double and RBI singles by Connor Griffin (Cortland) and Matt Duggan (Ft. Lauderdale, FL/St. Thomas Aquinas).

Cortland finished with 20 hits, including six players with multiple hits. Chris Jackson (Wappingers Falls/Roy C. Ketcham) went 3-for-4 with a double and two runs scored and Rinaldi was 2-for-3 with a homer and three RBI. Simon finished 2-for-2 with three RBI, Marotta and Clock each went 2-for-3 with two RBI and two runs scored, and Max Rosing (Rockville Centre/South Side) was 2-for-3.

Nate Eastman suffered the loss for Oneonta after giving up 11 hits and 10 runs, seven earned, in three and two-thirds innings.

Game 2: Cortland 11, Oneonta 4

Brandon Serio (Bedford Hills/Fox Lane) struck out nine batters and allowed four hits, two walks and two runs over six innings for the win. He's now 7-2 on the year. Tyler Brien (Ilion), Cortland's third reliever, entered in the bottom of the eighth with two outs, two on and Cortland leading 7-4. He struck out the first batter he faced to end the inning and retired the side in order in the ninth for his first save of the season.

Cortland scored a run on a two-out balk in the first and went up 3-0 in the fourth on Tim Panetta's (Mount Kisco/Fox Lane) two-run single. Oneonta cut the deficit to one at 3-2 on Stephen Provenzano's first collegiate home run, a two-run shot in the bottom of the fourth.

The guests created a little bit of distance with a run in the fifth on an Anthony Iacomini (South Salem/John Jay-Cross River) RBI groundout and another in the sixth when Jackson tripled and scored on a Mitch Hollander (Woodbury/Syosset) RBI single.

Oneonta scored in the seventh when Joe Franke doubled with one out and scored on a Matt Mastroianni RBI single. Cortland added two runs in the eighth on a wild pitch and a Panetta RBI bunt single, and the hosts responded with a run in the bottom of the inning on a Wayne Baker RBI single before Brien closed the inning. Cortland put the game out of reach with a four-run ninth that featured two-run singles by Conrad Ziemendorf (Penfield/Webster Schroeder) and Panetta.

Panetta finished 3-for-4 with five RBI and Hollander was 2-for-3 with an RBI. Eastman was 2-for-4 with two RBI to lead Oneonta (9-19, 4-6 SUNYAC).