PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. – Adam Mieczkowski (Vestal) homered twice and tripled in the opener and homered again in the nightcap as the Cortland baseball team clinched the SUNYAC regular-season title with a sweep at Plattsburgh. The Red Dragons (26-9, 16-2 SUNYAC) won the first game, 15-2 in seven innings, and the second game, 6-2. 
 
With the league regular-season crown, Cortland has earned the right to host the four-team SUNYAC postseason tournament May 11-14. 
 
Cortland 15, Plattsburgh 2 (7 inn.) 
 
Shane Van Dam (Cranford, NJ) earned the win in the opener with five innings of two-hit shutout ball. He struck out 11 batters and issued no walks. 
 
Mieczkowski was 3-for-4 at the plate with two homers, a triple, five RBI and three runs scored in one of the larger parks nationally in Division III. Chip Cummings Field features dimensions of 350 feet down the lines, 385 feet in the power alleys and 402 feet to center. He hit a two-run homers to left in the second and fourth innings and an RBI triple down the right field line in the fifth. 
 
Dylan Mackenzie (Canandaigua/Canandaigua Academy) went 3-for-5 with an RBI and two runs, Nick Chemotti (Warners/West Genesee) finished 2-for-3 with a double and RBI, Matthew Krafft (Cornwall) was 2-for-4 with two RBI and Chris Bonacci (Syracuse/West Genesee) ended 2-for-5 with a triple, two RBI and two runs. Cortland finished the game with 17 hits. 
 
Plattsburgh starter Chris Santic allowed seven runs, four earned, on eight hits in two and a third innings. He struck out three and walked one. The Cardinals scored their two runs in the bottom of the seventh on an Angel Espinal RBI fielder's choice and a Ben Catrambone RBI single, but it wasn't enough to keep the game from being called due to the SUNYAC's 10-run rule. 
 
Cortland scored at least once in each of the first five innings. Mat Bruno (Rye) doubled in a run in the first. A five-run second included a Bonacci two-run triple and a Chemotti RBI single prior to Mieczkowski's first homer. Krafft singled in a run in the third, and Mieczkowski's two-run blast in the fourth preceded a Zachary Kringdon (Larchmont/Mamaroneck) RBI single and a Krafft RBI fielder's choice. The Red Dragons' three-run fifth was fueled by Mieczkowski's RBI triple, a Mackenzie RBI single and an Andrew Michalski (Buffalo/St. Francis) bases-loaded walk. 
 
Cortland 6, Plattsburgh 2 
 
Cortland broke a 2-2 tie with a run in the top of the sixth on a Chemotti RBI single, and the Red Dragons added two in the seventh on a wild pitch and a Krafft RBI bunt single. Krafft also plated a run with a sac fly in the ninth. 
 
Mieczkowski staked Cortland to a 2-0 lead with a two-run homer to center in the first. Plattsburgh tied the game with single runs over the first two innings. Nick Cergol tripled in a run in the first and Adam Wein singled in a run in the second. 
 
Cortland's first three pitchers each went an inning and a third. Will McCarthy (Farmingdale) started and allowed four hits and two runs. Bryan Bernard (Howell, NJ) gave up two hits and no runs with a walk and a strikeout and Tommy Lynch (West Seneca/Canisius) allowed a hit, a walk and no runs. He earned the win as he was the pitcher of record when Cortland took the lead for good in the top of the fifth. 
 
Anthony Fusco (Yorktown Heights/Yorktown) shined the rest of the way for Cortland, earning a five-inning save after giving up no runs on only one hit and two walks with one strikeout. 
 
Krafft and Chemotti each finished 3-for-4, with Krafft driving in two runs and Chemotti with one RBI. Mieczkowski was 1-for-4 with a homer, walk and two RBI. Alex Kornblau went 2-for-4 with a double and a walk and Cremin was 2-for-4 with a double for Plattsburgh (12-20, 4-11 SUNYAC). Cardinals' starter Andrew Veit allowed six runs on 10 hits with five strikeouts and a walk in eight innings.