PATCHOGUE, N.Y. – Will McCarthy (Farmingdale) allowed one run over six innings and Hunter Holliday (Camden) and Andrew Michalski (Buffalo/St. Francis) each drove in three runs as nationally top-ranked Cortland defeated St. Joseph's College of Long Island, 9-3, in a seven-inning contest to salvage a doubleheader split with the host Golden Eagles. St. Joseph's won the nine-inning opener, 11-9, after rallying for seven runs in the bottom of the eighth to overcome a four-run deficit. 
 
Cortland (7-2) is scheduled to host Ithaca in a non-league game Tuesday at 3 p.m. 
 
St. Joseph's 11, Cortland 9 
 
Cortland fell behind 4-0 in the bottom of the first, but the Red Dragons scored in the fourth on a Holliday RBI double and exploded for six runs in the fifth – the first four on a Danny Coleman (Saratoga Springs) grand slam and the other two on Adam Mieczkowski's two-run homer. Cortland added a run in the top of the eighth on a Matthew Krafft two-out RBI double. 
 
St. Joe's sent 10 batters to the plate in its seven-run eighth. The Golden Eagles loaded the bases on a Charles Rainone infield single, a Joe Sanguedolce double and a Nick Vicino walk. Pinch hitter John Lynch was hit by a pitch to force in a run, and one out later Phil Krpata hit a two-run double to cut Cortland's lead to 8-7. Following an intentional walk to load the bases, Ryan Decoursey hit a grand slam to left to give the hosts an 11-8 lead. 
 
Cortland's rally in the top of the ninth came up just short. James Varian (Hopewell Junction/Trinity-Pawling) and Coleman drew one-out walks and Holliday was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Pinch hitter Paul Franzese's (Somers) groundout to the pitcher drove in a run and put the potential tying run on second, but St. Joe's escaped the jam when Mieczkowski hit a hard lineout to left to end the game. 
 
Coleman finished 2-for-4 with his grand slam, a walk, four RBI and two runs, and Krafft was 3-for-4 with two doubles and an RBI, to lead a 10-hit Red Dragon attack. Decoursey drove in four runs with his grand slam, Paul Gugliuzzo finished 2-for-3 with a walk and two runs, Krpata was 1-for-3 with a walk, two RBI and two runs, and Vicino went 1-for-2 with two walks and two RBI for the Golden Eagles. 
 
Ryan Flansburg (Queensbury) started for Cortland and gave up four runs, but only one earned, in four and two thirds innings. He struck out six, walked two, and allowed three hits. Dylan Beers (Woodbury/Monroe-Woodbury) was the most effective of Cortland's five relievers, allowing one hit, one walk and one run in two and a third innings. He fanned one batter. 
 
Anthony Cinquemani earned the win in relief for St. Joe's despite being charged with two runs in three and a third innings. Michael Manzolillo earned the save. He hit the first batter he faced in the ninth before retiring the final two hitters he faced. 
 
Cortland 9, St. Joseph's 3 
 
McCarthy turned in six solid innings for the win, giving up just four hits and a walk and striking out two. He walked the third batter he faced before retiring eight straight. The lone run he allowed came in the fifth on a Sanguedolce leadoff single, a steal, a two-out John Thatcher single, and two hit batters – the latter being Gugliuzzo to force in a run. 
 
Cortland, however, built a 9-0 lead prior to that point. Holliday hit a three-run double in the second to put the Red Dragons up 3-0, and Michalski singled home two runs in the third to extend the margin to five. Cortland's four-run fifth included a Nick Chemotti (Warners/West Genesee) pinch-hit sacrifice fly, a Michalski RBI bunt single, and a pinch-hit, two-run triple by Luke Shartner (Bayport/Bayport-Blue Point). The Golden Eagles (1-1) scored twice in seventh inning on bases-loaded walks by Gugliuzzo and Rainone. 
 
Michalski finished 3-for-3 with three RBI and two runs, Franzese went 2-for-3 with two RBI, and Holliday was 1-for-3 with a triple, walk and three RBI as Cortland out-hit St. Joe's, 13-6. Sanguedolce finished 2-for-4 for the hosts. Ryan Foran took the loss after giving up seven hits, four walks and five runs in four innings.