BALTIMORE, MD. – Mat Bruno (Rye) and Danny Coleman (Saratoga Springs) each homered and all nine Cortland starters registered at least one hit as the nationally second-ranked Red Dragons defeated host and fourth-ranked Johns Hopkins, 9-4, during the opening day of the Baltimore Invitational. 
 
Cortland (4-0) continues play in the tournament Saturday at 9:30 a.m. against 19th-ranked North Carolina Wesleyan. 
 
Bruno finished 2-for-5 with two RBI and two runs, Scott Giordano (Croton-on-Hudson/Croton-Harmon) went 2-for-4 with two RBI and Paul Franzese (Somers) finished 2-for-4 with an RBI. Antonio Pragana (Hopewell Junction/John Jay) doubled, walked, drove in a run and scored three times. 
 
Cortland starter Anthony Fusco (Yorktown Heights/Yorktown) pitched the first three and a third innings and gave up four hits and three runs, one earned, with a walk and a strikeout. Matt Funk (Pine Plains) entered in the fourth, allowed one run on one hit in an inning and two thirds, and earned the win as Cortland took the lead with five runs in the top of the fifth. 
 
Brendan Disonell (Clifton Park/Shenendehowa) was nearly flawless over the final four innings for the save. He started the bottom of the sixth and retired the first 10 batters he faced before allowing a one-out double in the bottom of the ninth. He walked the next batter, but induced a pair of flyouts to end the game. 
 
Johns Hopkins, playing its season opener, was led by AJ King, who went 2-for-3 with a walk, homer, and two RBI, and Sam Frank, who finished 2-for-4 with a homer and two runs scored. Kieren Collins started for the Blue Jays and gave up eight hits and six runs over four and two thirds innings. Matt Savedoff allowed two runs, one earned, on three hits in three and a third innings of relief. 
 
Hopkins, an NCAA Division III World Series team along with Cortland last spring, took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the second. After a one-out error and a hit-by-pitch, the next batter flied out to center, with the runner from second tagging to third. Sam Browning and King followed with RBI singles. 
 
The Red Dragons started the third with a single and walk, although a pickoff erased the runner at second after a failed bunt attempt. Bruno, who missed the bunt, redeemed himself with a two-run homer to right center to tie the game. Hopkins regained the lead in the bottom of the fourth on Frank's leadoff homer to right. 
 
Cortland's decisive five-run top of the fifth started with a Ben Rhodes (Amsterdam) double, a groundout that moved Rhodes to third, and a one-out Pragana RBI double. Bruno singled, and Giordano gave Cortland the lead with a sac fly to left. Coleman then ripped a two-run homer to right center to knock out Collins, and the Red Dragons added another run on a James Varian (Hopewell Junction/Trinity-Pawling) double and Franzese RBI single. 
 
The hosts got a run back when King led off the bottom of the fifth with a homer to right. Neither team scored again until Cortland registered an unearned run in the eighth. Franzese beat out an infield single to short, stole second, went to third on a flyout and scored on a passed ball. Cortland added a run in the ninth on an error, a balk, and a Giordano RBI single.