CORTLAND, N.Y. - Danny Coleman (Saratoga Springs) homered twice and drove in eight runs as nationally sixth-ranked Cortland defeated visiting Brockport, 15-2, in the opening game of a SUNYAC doubleheader at Wallace Field. Brockport won the scheduled seven-inning second game, 3-1 in eight innings. 
 
The teams will complete their three-game series with a single game Saturday at 11 a.m. 
 
Cortland 15, Brockport 2 
 
Coleman's eight RBI are the most by a Red Dragon player since Tyler Phillips drove in eight runs versus Keystone in a 2017 NCAA playoff game. Coleman is only the fifth Cortland player in 25 years to drive in eight runs in a game (Phillips in 2017, Steve Wanamaker vs. Oswego in 2002, Scott Seabury vs. Concordia (Wis.) in 2000 and Billy Bacon vs. New Paltz in 1997). 
 
Coleman hit a three-run homer in the bottom of the third to give Cortland a 3-0 lead. He doubled in two runs during a five-run fourth inning, and he hit a another three-run homer to highlight a five-run sixth inning. He finished 3-for-5. 
 
Four other Red Dragons registered multiple-hit games as part of Cortland's 17-hit attack. Scott Giordano (Croton-on-Hudson/Croton-Harmon) was 3-for-5 with two RBI and two runs and Antonio Pragana (Hopewell Junction/John Jay) reached base in all four of his plate appearances with two hits and two walks and he scored three times. Matthew Krafft (Cornwall) was 2-for-4 with a double, RBI and two runs, while Ben Rhodes (Amsterdam) finished 2-for-4. 
 
Brockport, which had its NCAA Division III-leading 16-game win streak snapped, was led by James Houlahan, who went 2-for-3, and Ryan Mansell, who finished 2-for-4. Tom Kretzler drove in the Golden Eagles' runs with a two-run single in the sixth. 
 
Cortland starter Anthony Fusco (Yorktown Heights/Yorktown) improved to 5-1 after allowing two runs on six hits over six innings. He struck out three and walked one. Mike Hennessy (Stony Brook/Smithtown East) earned his second save after giving up only one hit and facing the minimum nine batters over the final three scoreless innings. 
 
Brockport starter Andrew Huffman entering the game having allowed only one unearned run in 32 and a third innings. He fell to 5-1 on the spring after allowing seven hits, one walk and eight runs, all earned, with two strikeouts over three and a third innings.

Brockport 3, Cortland 1 (8 inn.) 
 
The second game featured a pitching duel between Brockport's Kretzler and Cortland's Ryan Flansburg (Queensbury), who each held the opposition scoreless through the first six innings. 
 
Brockport (19-3, 7-1 SUNYAC) broke through for a run in the top of the seventh when Mansell led off with a double, moved to third on a flyout and scored on a Ryan Voight double to left off Red Dragon reliever Brandon Buchan (Seaford/MacArthur). Cortland (20-7, 7-1 SUNYAC), however, forced extra innings with a run in the bottom of the seventh. Andrew Michalski (Buffalo/St. Francis) singled with one out, moved to second on a balk, tagged and went to third on a lineout to right and scored on Giordano's two-out single to right center. 
 
Brockport's winning rally began with two outs and no one on. The Golden Eagles drew three consecutive walks by Justin Pangburn, Houlahan and Mansell, and Kretzler doubled just over the bag at third off reliever Shane Mugnolo (Howard Beach/Xaverian) to drive in two runs. Cortland put two runners on in the bottom of the eighth against Brockport reliever Matthew Colucci on a Coleman leadoff walk and a two-out Krafft infield single, but Colucci earned the save after getting the next batter to line out to short. 
 
Kretzler, now 4-1 on the season, allowed five hits and three walks with two strikeouts over seven innings. Flansburg retired the first 12 batters he faced before giving up a Voight single to start the fifth. He finished allowing just three hits and no walks in six and a third innings and took a no decision. 
 
Michalski was 2-for-2 and Giordano went 2-for-3 with a walk and RBI to account for four of Cortland's six hits. The Red Dragons left 10 runners on base. Voight went 2-for-3 with a double and RBI for Brockport.