CORTLAND, N.Y. – Seth Lamando (Hopewell Junction/Roy C. Ketcham) took a no-hit bid one out into the ninth inning before allowing a Wesley Burghardt double as Cortland defeated Brockport, 8-1, in the SUNYAC Baseball Tournament winner's bracket game at Wallace Field.

The nationally top-ranked Red Dragons (35-2) will face Oswego Sunday at noon in the championship round needing just one win in two tries to claim the league title. Oswego, which lost to Brockport Friday, stayed alive with wins Saturday over Fredonia, 9-5, and Brockport, 11-4 - eliminating both of those teams in the process.

Lamando, now 5-0 on the season, was making a push to throw the first SUNYAC tournament no-hitter since Cortland's Brian Rose no-hit Oswego in 1993. He finished the game with 11 strikeouts, two walks and one hit allowed over eight and a third innings.

Lamando retired the first 12 batters he faced, six by strikeout. Brockport put runners on second and third in the fifth with the help of two Cortland errors, but Lamando escaped the jam with a strikeout. Brockport had a runner reach by error in the sixth, as well as via walk in both the seventh and eighth. In the ninth, Lamando struck out the first hitter he faced before Burghardt lined a ball down the left field line to break up the no-hitter. Burghardt eventually scored on a John Craig RBI single off reliever Adam Brant (Staatsburg/Our Lady of Lourdes) to end the shutout attempt.

Brockport's Zack Lander - one of only two pitchers to earn wins versus Cortland this season - kept the Red Dragons off the scoreboard for the first four innings. In the fifth, however, Anthony Simon (Suffern/Don Bosco Prep (NJ)) led off with a double, moved to third on a wild pitch and scored on Austin Clock's (Niskayuna) RBI single. In the sixth, Mark DeMilio (Valhalla) and Nick Hart (Fredonia) each singled and Vinny Bomasuto (Dunkirk) hit a sac fly to left to drive in a run and Cortland led 2-0.

The Red Dragons broke the game open with four runs in the seventh on a Patrick Schetter (Beacon) RBI double and a Bomasuto two-run single, on which a third run scored due to an error. Schetter's two-run triple in the eighth finished Cortland's scoring.

Clock finished 3-for-4 with a double and an RBI, Schetter was 2-for-3 with a triple, double and three RBI, and Hart went 2-for-3 with a walk. Donny Castaldo (Mount Kisco/Fox Lane) was 2-for-2 and Simon ended 2-for-4 with two runs scored.