CORTLAND, N.Y. – Will McCarthy (Farmingdale) tossed an eight-hit shutout as the Cortland baseball team defeated Oneonta, 5-0, to complete a doubleheader sweep of the visiting Red Dragons. Cortland won the opener, 13-2 in seven innings, despite trailing 2-0 after four innings. 
 
Cortland extended its winning streak to 17 games and is now 22-7 overall and 12-0 in the SUNYAC. Oneonta fell to 19-9 overall and 5-4 in the league. 
 
Cortland 13, Oneonta 2 (7 inn.) 
 
Cortland trailed 2-0 after four innings as Oneonta starter Devin Rooney kept the hosts off the board until the fifth. Oneonta took the lead in the top of the fourth on a Joe Ottaviano RBI groundout and an error. 
 
Cortland took the lead with four runs in the bottom of the fifth on a Nick Chemotti (Warners/West Genesee) bases-loaded walk, a Mat Bruno (Rye) sacrifice fly and an Adam Mieczkowski (Vestal) two-run double. The Red Dragons then sent 13 batters to the plate in a nine-run sixth inning. The outburst featured an Andrew Michalski (Buffalo/St. Francis) RBI single, another Chemotti bases-loaded walk, consecutive bases-loaded hit by pitches by Bruno and Mieczkowski, a three-run double by Hunter Holliday (Camden) and a Matthew Krafft (Cornwall) two-run triple. 
 
Justin Patsey (Hyde Park/Franklin D. Roosevelt), the second of three Cortland relievers, earned the win. He tossed two and a third hitless innings with three strikeouts and a walk. Bryan Bernard (Howell, NJ) started and allowed no runs on three hits and a walk with one strikeout in an inning and two thirds. Holliday finished 2-for-3 with a double, walk, three RBI and two runs and Krafft went 1-for-2 with a triple, two walks, two RBI and two runs. Mieczkowski drove in three runs and Chemotti and Bruno each had two RBI. 
 
Rooney suffered his first loss in six decisions this spring. The four runs he allowed were unearned. He gave up three hits and four walks and fanned four in four and two thirds innings. Matt Sandoval went 2-for-3 to account for half of Oneonta's four hits. 
 
Cortland 5, Oneonta 0 
 
McCarthy upped his record to 5-0 on the season while becoming the first Cortland pitcher to toss a shutout of at least nine innings since Matt Valin defeated Fredonia, 1-0 in 10 innings, in the 2019 SUNYAC playoffs. McCarthy allowed eight hits - one each in the second through ninth innings - with six strikeouts and no walks. Oneonta starter Michael Sadowski allowed four runs on seven hits in five and a third innings. He fanned three and walked three. Logan Carriero gave up one run on four hits over the final two and two thirds innings. 
 
Cortland scored in the first on Holliday's two-out RBI single. The Red Dragons added two runs in the fourth, one on a wild pitch and the other on Michalski's RBI single. Cortland scored in the sixth on a Chris Bonacci (Syracuse/West Genesee) RBI single and closed the scoring in the eighth on a Michalski squeeze bunt. 
 
Krafft finished 3-for-3, Holliday was 2-for-3 with a walk and an RBI and Zachary Kringdon (Larchmont/Mamaroneck) went 2-for-4 with two runs scored for Cortland. Sandoval was 2-for-4 for Oneonta.