BALTIMORE, MD. – Five Cortland pitchers combined on a one-hit shutout as the nationally top-ranked Red Dragons improved to 7-0 with a 9-0 win at Johns Hopkins University in the opening game of a two-game weekend series. The teams will play again at Hopkins Sunday at 1 p.m.

Ben Moxley (Oneonta) started for Cortland as part of a predetermined pitching rotation and earned the win with two hitless innings. He struck out three and walked two. Jeff Cooke (Rome/Rome Free Academy) struck out four and walked one in four innings, followed by Jason Martin's (Turin/South Lewis) inning and a third of perfect relief with one strikeout. Patrick Healy (Massapequa) allowed the Blue Jays' lone hit while recording the final two outs of the eighth, and Nick Di Benedetto (Nanuet) threw a 1-2-3 ninth with one strikeout.

Cortland allowed only four baserunners in the contest - two by walk in the second, one by walk in the third, and Zach Robbins' one-out single to left in the eighth that broke up the Red Dragons' no-hit bid.

Cortland finished the game with 14 hits. Steven Figueroa (Bronx/St. Raymond's) finished 3-for-4 with a triple, double, three RBI and two runs scored. Connor Griffin (Cortland) was 2-for-3 with two RBI and a run, while Conrad Ziemendorf (Penfield/Webster Schroeder) and Austin Clock (Niskayuna) each finished 2-for-5. Ziemendorf tripled and scored twice and Clock drove in a run.

Also for the Red Dragons, Matt Michalski (Buffalo/St. Francis) was 1-for-2 with a double, walk and RBI and Fabio Ricci (Hawthorne/Westlake) went 1-for-2 with a walk, RBI and two runs scored.

Cortland grabbed a 3-0 lead in the top of the first on Figueroa's two-run triple and Griffin's RBI infield single. The Red Dragons added three more runs in the third on a Ricci RBI single, a Griffin squeeze bunt and a Clock RBI groundout.

Michalski doubled in a run in the fifth to extend the lead to 5-0, and the Red Dragons closed out the scoring in the sixth on RBI singles by Paul Dondero (East Islip) and Figueroa.

Harrison Folk started for JHU (1-3-1) and allowed six hits and six runs over three innings. He struck out two and walked one. Wyatt Lam allowed three hits and one run with one strikeout over two innings, and Sean McCracken, the Blue Jays' third reliever, tossed two and two thirds innings of one-hit scoreless ball with three strikeouts.