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Long-Ball Prowess Powers Cortland Sweep of Potsdam

Tori Scharff hit one of Cortland's three homers in a six-run fourth inning during Game 2
Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 CORTLAND, N.Y. - Cortland hit five home runs, including two each by Kelly O'Gorman (Clifton Park/Shenendehowa) and Hannah Feldman (Buffalo/Sweet Home), in a doubleheader sweep of visiting Potsdam.

Cortland won the first game, 6-3, and the second game, 9-1 in five innings, to improve to 10-9 overall and 3-1 in SUNYAC play. The Red Dragons will travel to nationally 11th-ranked and 2017 national runner-up St. John Fisher for a non-league doubleheader Tuesday at 3 p.m.

Cortland 6, Potsdam 3

Alyssa Salisbury (Rotterdam/Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons) hit a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the fourth to break a 2-2 tie and support her sister, Joelle Salisbury (Rotterdam/Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons), who earned the win in the circle. Joelle went four innings and allowed five hits, no walks and two runs with three strikeouts. Courtney Kane (Bellport) gave up one unearned run on two hits and struck out three over the final three innings for her first collegiate save.

Cortland grabbed a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first. An error allowed the first run to score, and O'Gorman hit an RBI single to plate the second run. Potsdam got a run back in the second on a Lauren Brace solo homer and tied the game in the third on pitcher Samantha Hubinsky's RBI single.

The go-ahead rally in the fourth for Cortland started with bunt singles by Ericka Sadowski (Liverpool) and Tori Scharff (Poughkeepsie/Arlington). On the Scharff single, Sadowski moved to third, with Scharff able to steal second on the play with the base unguarded. (Alyssa) Salisbury's fly ball to center drove home Sadowski.

O'Gorman hit a two-run homer to left in the fifth to push the lead to 5-2, and a throwing error after an Andrea Schoonmaker (Marlboro) single allowed (Alyssa) Salisbury to score all the way from first in the sixth after she reached on a one-out single. Potsdam closed the scoring on a one-out error and two-out Hubinsky RBI double in the seventh.

O'Gorman finished 2-for-3 with a homer and three RBI, Sadowski was 2-for-3, and Taylor Felicello (Marlboro) went 2-for-4 with two doubles and two runs scored. Hubinsky was 3-for-4 at the plate for the Bears, and she allowed six runs, three earned, on 10 hits with a walk and a strikeout in six innings.

Cortland 9, Potsdam 1 (5 inn.)

Cortland broke open a tight game with six runs, including three home runs, in the bottom of the fourth. The Red Dragons grabbed a 3-0 lead in the first on Feldman's three-run homer, but Potsdam got a run back in the third on a Brooke Falsion double, a passed ball, and a Lucy Condon RBI single through the right side.

Feldman and O'Gorman hit back-to-back homers to lead off the fourth. Two batters later, Scharff hit a homer down the left field line to give the Red Dragons a 6-1 lead. Cailey Cuttita (Clifton Park/Shenendehowa) singled, Averee May (Highland Falls/James I. O'Neill) walked, and two batters later Felicello hit a two-run double - her third double of the day - to push the lead to 8-1. Skyler Hoyt (Endicott/Union-Endicott) followed with an RBI single through the left that proved to be the difference as Potsdam failed to score in the fifth, ending the game on the eight-run rule.

Feldman went 2-for-2 with two homers, giving her six for the season. She drove in four runs, scored twice, and was intentionally walked with a runner on first during her second plate appearance in the fourth inning. Felicello went 2-for-3 with a double, two RBI and two runs, while Cuttita and Scharff each were 1-for-2. Scharff's homer was, at least for now, her first official home run as a Red Dragon. She hit a homer versus Rochester last week in a game that was halted by darkness, and it won't count if the game is not completed.

Sam Van Dorn (Medford/Patchogue-Medford) threw a four-hitter over five innings for the win. She struck out six batters and walked one, and the one run she allowed was unearned.

Potsdam (3-11, 0-2 SUNYAC) had four players - Falsion, Condon, Brace and Megan Fish - each finish 1-for-2. Fish started in the circle and allowed five runs on five hits in three innings. She struck out two batters. Alissa McCauley gave up four runs in one inning of work.
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