CORTLAND, N.Y. – Mat Bruno's (Rye) grand slam highlighted a seven-run top of the 10th inning and Cortland defeated visiting Fredonia, 13-6, in the second game of a SUNYAC doubleheader. Cortland won the opener, 7-0, as Bryan Bernard (Howell, NJ) and Shane Van Dam (Cranford, NJ) combined on a four-hit shutout with 14 strikeouts. 
 
The series was originally scheduled to be held at Fredonia but was moved to Cortland due to field conditions, and as a result Fredonia batted last. 
 
Cortland (19-7, 9-0 SUNYAC) extended its winning streak to 14 games and took over sole possession of the conference lead with the victories. The Red Dragons are scheduled to host St. Lawrence in a non-league game Wednesday and a three-game series with Oneonta, the league's second-place team (5-1 conference record), on Friday and Saturday. 
 
Cortland 7, Fredonia 0 
 
Bernard improved to 3-1 with six innings of three-hit ball. He struck out seven and walked one. Van Dam notched his second save after going the final three innings and allowing just one hit and no walks with seven strikeouts. Fredonia starter Nate O'Brochta gave up five runs, one earned, on four hits with two strikeouts and four walks in five and two thirds innings. 
 
Zachary Kringdon (Larchmont/Mamaroneck) finished 2-for-5 with a homer and three RBI, Dylan Mackenzie (Canandaigua/Canandaigua Academy) was 2-for-4 with two RBI and two runs and Nick Chemotti (Warners/West Genesee) was 2-for-4 with a walk to lead Cortland's offense. Garrett Stuckey, Mario Williams, Jordan Maher and AJ Roach each went 1-for-3 for Fredonia. 
 
Cortland scored on an error in the first inning and added three in the third on a Mackenzie two-run single and Kringdon RBI single. Chris Bonacci's (Syracuse/West Genesee) sac fly made it 5-0 in the sixth, and Kringdon closed the scoring with a two-run homer in the seventh. 
 
Cortland 13, Fredonia 6 (10 inn.) 
 
Cortland persevered in the nightcap, scoring seven times in the top of the 10th after Fredonia rallied from a 6-2 deficit with three runs in the fifth and one in the eighth. In the 10th, the Red Dragons loaded the bases with one out on Matthew Krafft (Cornwall) and Bonacci hit by pitches, sandwiched around an Andrew Michalski (Buffalo/St. Francis) single. Chemotti was hit by a pitch to force in the go-ahead run, and Bruno followed with a grand slam to left to give Cortland a 11-6 lead. Later in the inning, Krafft hit a two-run single to close out the scoring. 
 
Tommy Lynch (West Seneca/Canisius), Cortland's fourth reliever, earned the victory after going the final three and two thirds innings. He allowed one run on three hits with six strikeouts and no walks. Fredonia's Nick Syposs was the tough-luck loser. He held Cortland to one hit and no runs over five innings after entering to start the top of the fifth before being charged with three runs in the 10th. 
 
Cortland finished with 14 hits, led by Krafft's 4-for-5 performance with a hit by pitch, three RBI and two runs. Bruno went 2-for-5 with a walk and four RBI, Chemotti also drove in four runs and ended 1-for-4 with a walk, hit by pitch and two runs, and Dylan Tierney (East Greenbush/Columbia) was 2-for-5 with a walk. 
 
Stuckey finished 3-for-4 with a walk, two RBI and two runs to lead the Blue Devils. Maher was 2-for-5 with an RBI and Chet Palmer went 2-for-5. 
 
Fredonia led 2-0 early on a Stuckee RBI triple and Williams RBI single. Cortland got a run back in the second on Mitchell Kelly's (Webster/Webster Thomas) solo homer and took the lead with five runs in the top of the fourth. Krafft's RBI single tied the game, Chemotti hit a three-run triple three batters later to put the Red Dragons up, 5-2, and Chemotti scored on a wild pitch. 
 
Fredonia's three-run fifth featured a Tyler Curtis two-run double and RBI singles by Stuckee and Maher. In the bottom of the eighth, Jake Wentland singled with one out, stole second with two outs and scored the tying run on a Brady Ventura single. Fredonia had a chance to win the game in the bottom of the ninth when Stuckee singled with two outs and stole second, but Lynch fanned the next batter to send the game to extra innings.