BUFFALO, N.Y. - The Cortland softball team rapped out a combined 26 hits and received solid pitching performances in a sweep at Buffalo State. The Red Dragons won the opener, 12-0 in five innings, and the nightcap, 11-1 in six innings, with both games called due to the eight-run rule.

Cortland (18-17, 11-5 SUNYAC) clinched a SUNYAC playoff berth with the victories. The Red Dragons are currently in second place, a game ahead of Oneonta and two games ahead of both Oswego, Plattsburgh and Buffalo State. Geneseo (13-3 SUNYAC) clinched the league's top seed with a split at Brockport; the Knights will host the six-team SUNYAC tournament May 3-6.

Cortland will close out the regular season Saturday at Fredonia in an 11 a.m. doubleheader. The start time was moved an hour earlier to hopefully avoid bad weather later in the day.

Cortland 12, Buffalo St. 0 (5 inn.)

Cortland scored in every inning, capped by a six-run fifth frame to help give the Red Dragons the win by eight-run rule. Sam Van Dorn (Medford/Patchogue-Medford) earned the victory with four innings of two-hit ball with six strikeouts and two walks. Cady Walts (Cortland) pitched a perfect fifth inning.

Hannah Feldman (Buffalo/Sweet Home) led Cortland's 16-hit attack by going 4-for-4 with a homer, double, four RBI and two runs scored. Kelly O'Gorman (Clifton Park/Shenendehowa) was 3-for-4 with a double, three RBI and three runs, and Sabrina Caputo (Westbury/W.T. Clarke) finished 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run.

Skyler Hoyt (Endicott/Union-Endicott) and Ericka Sadowski (Liverpool) each went 2-for-4. Hoyt drove in two runs and Sadowski had one RBI. Also for the Red Dragons, Cailey Cuttita (Clifton Park/Shenendehowa) was 1-for-2 with a walk and run and Andrea Schoonmaker (Marlboro) went 1-for-3 with a walk and two runs. Hannah Dunlap and Cassie O'Hern each finished 1-for-2 and Danielle Szymkowiak drew two walks for the Bengals.

Feldman drove in a run in each of her four at-bats. She singled home a run in the first, hit a solo homer in the third, hit an RBI single in the fourth and doubled in a run in the fifth.

Caputo's RBI single in the second gave Cortland a 2-0 lead, and the Red Dragons added two in the third on the Feldman homer, a Taylor Felicello (Marlboro) double and a Sadowski RBI single. Cortland's two-run fourth featured back-to-back RBI singles by Hoyt and Feldman. O'Gorman's three-run double extended the lead to 9-0 in the fifth, followed by a Hoyt RBI single, Feldman's RBI double, and an error on a ball hit by Felicello that scored Feldman.

Buffalo State had runners reach second base in the first two innings, but no one else in scoring position after that with only one walk allowed by Cortland's pitchers over the final three innings. Marissa Hayes suffered the loss for the Bengals with 12 runs allowed, 11 earned, in five innings.

Cortland 11, Buffalo St. 1 (6 inn.)

Courtney Kane (Bellport) allowed no runs on three hits over four and two thirds innings for the victory. She struck out six and walked three. Walts went the final inning and a third and gave up one hit and one run.

Cortland hit three home runs, starting with a solo shot by Hoyt in the top of the first and a Tori Scharff (Poughkeepsie/Arlington) solo homer in the second to give the Red Dragons a 2-0 lead. Feldman hit her second homer of the day, and team-high 13th of the season - a three-run shot during a five-run sixth that closed Cortland's scoring. Feldman's 13 home runs this spring are the second-highest single-season total in school history, behind only Meaghan Kohler's 17 round-trippers in 2012.

The Red Dragons added two runs in the third on a Felicello two-run double and two in the fifth on a Felicello sac fly, with a second scoring on the throw during the play. Cortland pushed the lead to 11-0 in the fifth on an O'Gorman sac fly, a Hoyt RBI bunt single, and Feldman's three-run homer.

Buffalo State (11-16, 9-7 SUNYAC) broke up Cortland's bid at a second straight shutout with a run in the bottom of the sixth when O'Hern led off with a double, took third on a wild pitch and scored on a Justine Silva RBI groundout.

Hoyt finished 3-for-3 with a walk, homer, two RBI and three runs, Feldman was 1-for-2 with two walks, a homer and three RBI, and Felicello closed at 1-for-3 with three RBI. O'Gorman was 1-for-2 with a walk, RBI and two runs.

Julia Blujus was 2-for-3 to account for half of Buffalo State's hits. Nicole Adams gave up 11 runs in six innings in the circle.