Cortland Completes Dominating Weekend Sweep of Oswego with 10-0 Victory

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CORTLAND, N.Y. – Three Cortland pitchers combined on a six-hit shutout and Dylan Mackenzie (Canandaigua/Canandaigua Academy) drove in three runs as the Red Dragons defeated visiting Oswego, 10-0, in a SUNYAC baseball matchup halted after seven innings due to the league's 10-run rule. 
 
Cortland (11-7, 3-0 SUNYAC) completed a three-game weekend sweep of the Lakers, including two wins on Friday. The Red Dragons outscored the Lakers by a combined 35-4 score, with all three wins ending by the 10-run rule in seven innings. 
 
James LaBruno (Oceanport, NJ/Shore Regional) earned the win as part of a predetermined pitching alignment. He allowed three hits and no walks and struck out one in two and a third innings. Bradley Battaglini (West Islip) gave up three hits with a strikeout and no walks in one and two thirds innings and Liam Krasney (Earlton/Greenville) earned a save after retiring all nine batters he faced, three by strikeout, over three innings. 
 
Mackenzie finished 2-for-3 with a sacrifice fly and three RBI, Chris Bonacci (Syracuse/West Genesee) was 2-for-4 with a walk, two RBI and two runs, and Mat Bruno (Rye) went 2-for-4 with a double, RBI and two runs as part of Cortland's 10-hit attack. 
 
Oswego starter Kieran Finnegan allowed six runs, three earned, on seven hits with three walks over three and two thirds innings. The Lakers committed four errors that led to six unearned runs. Six different Oswego players each went 1-for-3 at the plate. 
 
Mackenzie gave Cortland a 1-0 lead in the first with an RBI single. Oswego (5-11, 0-3 SUNYAC) threatened in the second after a two-out error put a runner on second, but on an ensuing Frankie Levanti single the runner was thrown out at the plate by Bonacci from center field. 
 
The Red Dragons extended their lead to 3-0 in the third on a Mackenzie sac fly and a Zachary Kringdon (Larchmont/Mamaroneck) RBI single. Oswego put runners on first and third on singles by Julian Drew and Anthony Barone in the fourth before a flyout ended the threat. 
 
Cortland added three in the fourth on a Bonacci RBI groundout, a Mackenzie RBI single and a Bruno run-scoring double. Hunter Holliday (Camden) doubled to lead off the fifth and eventually scored on a Matthew Krafft (Cornwall) sac fly to make it 7-0, and the Red Dragons walked off in the bottom of the seventh with three runs, two as the result errors sandwiched around a Bonacci RBI infield single.