ONEONTA, N.Y. - The Cortland baseball team reached the 30-win mark after completing its regular-season schedule with a doubleheader sweep over New Paltz, 18-3 and 12-3. The games were originally scheduled to be played at New Paltz but were moved to a neutral field at SUNY Oneonta due to weather and field conditions at New Paltz. 
 
Cortland (30-10, 15-3 SUNYAC), ranked 13th nationally in Division III, has won 30 or more games each of the last 17 seasons (not counting the COVID-shortened 2020 season) and 27 times in the last 28 complete seasons. 
 
The Red Dragons will be the second seed in next week's four-team, double-elimination SUNYAC tournament. Oswego will be the top seed and tournament host, while Brockport is the third seed and Plattsburgh is the fourth seed. The tournament begins Thursday with Oswego playing Plattsburgh at noon and Cortland facing Brockport at 3:30 p.m. 
 
Cortland 18, New Paltz 3 
 
Cortland jumped out to a 10-0 lead after three innings in the seven-inning opener. The Red Dragons added a run in the fourth and seven in the sixth and finished with 14 hits. 
 
Andrew Michalski (Buffalo/St. Francis) went 2-for-4 with a double, three RBI and two runs and James Varian (Hopewell Junction/Trinity-Pawling) was 2-for-3 with a double, two RBI and two runs. Danny Coleman (Saratoga Springs) finished 1-for-2 with two walks and two RBI, Paul Franzese (Somers) doubled, walked and drove in two runs in two plate appearances, and Dylan Tierney (East Greenbush/Columbia) went 1-for-2 with two RBI. 
 
Nick Harvey was 2-for-3 with a walk and Jordan Rios went 2-for-4 with two RBI for the Hawks. New Paltz scored its three runs in the fifth on Dean Stalzer's bases-loaded walk and a Rios two-run single. 
 
Cortland starter Anthony Fusco (Yorktown Heights/Yorktown), pulled after three innings shutout innings due to a predetermined pitch count, earned the win to improve to 8-2. He allowed three hits and two walks. Justin Patsey (Hyde Park/FDR), making his first collegiate pitching appearance, gave up only one walk and struck out one in an inning and two thirds as the first of five Cortland relievers. New Paltz starter Bobby Ramsey allowed nine runs in two-plus innings. 
 
Varian's two-run single and Franzese's two-run double highlighted a four-run first inning. Coleman singled in two runs in the second, and the Red Dragons added four in the third on a Ben Rhodes (Amsterdam) bases-loaded hit-by-pitch and a Michalski three-run double. Matthew Krafft (Cornwall) drove in a run with a sac fly in the fourth, and Cortland's seven-run sixth featured RBI singles by Adam Mieczkowski (Vestal), Dylan Mackenzie (Canandaigua/Canandaigua Academy) and Mat Bruno (Rye), Tierney's two-run single, an Anthony Pericolosi (Rockville Centre/South Side) RBI double and a Mitchell Kelly (Webster/Webster Thomas) RBI groundout.

Cortland 12, New Paltz 3 
 
Cortland broke open a tight game in the middle three innings. The Red Dragons led 1-0 after three frames before scoring four in the fourth, two in the fifth and five in the sixth to take a 12-2 lead. 
 
Will McCarthy (Farmingdale), like Fusco on a predetermined pitch count, went four innings for the victory. He gave up two runs on two hits with one walk and is now 4-0 this spring. Brendan Disonell (Clifton Park/Shenendehowa) followed with two hitless innings, striking out one and walking one. Matt Funk (Pine Plains) allowed one hit in a scoreless seventh, Liam Krasney (Greenville) allowed a run in the eighth, and Brandon Buchan (Seaford/MacArthur) retired the side in order in the ninth. 
 
Five Red Dragons registered multiple hits as Cortland out-hit the Hawks, 17-6. Scott Giordano (Croton-on-Hudson/Croton-Harmon) went 3-for-3 with a triple, double, two walks and three RBI. Coleman finished 3-for-4 with two doubles a walk and two RBI, Michalski ended 2-for-4 with an RBI and two runs, Rhodes was 2-for-3 with an RBI, and Krafft finished 2-for-5 with an RBI and two runs. Antonio Pragana (Hopewell Junction/John Jay) was 1-for-2 with a walk, hit by pitch, sac fly and three runs scored and Franzese finished 1-for-3 with two walks.
 
Rios paced New Paltz (14-22, 6-12 SUNYAC) by going 2-for-4 with three RBI. Dominic Schuch started for the Hawks and gave up five runs in three and a third innings. 
 
Coleman's RBI single gave Cortland a 1-0 lead in the top of the first. The Red Dragons stranded seven baserunners over the first three innings before breaking through for four in the fourth on a Varian two-run single, a Coleman RBI double and a Bruno RBI groundout. 
 
New Paltz put up two runs in the fourth after two hit batters and a Rios two-run double. Cortland responded with two in the top of the fifth on a Michalski sac fly and Giordano RBI triple, and the Red Dragons broke open the game with five in the sixth on back-to-back RBI singles by Krafft and Rhodes, a Pragana sac fly, a Michalski single and a Giordano two-run double. The Hawks closed the scoring in the eighth when Rios hit a two-out RBI single.