BALTIMORE, MD. -  The Cortland baseball team lost a pair of games to wrap up the Baltimore Invitational. The Red Dragons lost 8-5 to Frostburg State, followed by a 4-3 loss to host and seventh-ranked Johns Hopkins on a leadoff homer in the bottom of the 10th.
 
Cortland (4-4), which entered the game ranked first nationally in Division III, will return to action with an eight-game spring break trip to Lexington, S.C., March 11-17. The Red Dragons will play five non-league games there as well as a three-game SUNYAC series versus Brockport.
 
Frostburg St. 8, Cortland 5
 
Frostburg (7-1) hit three homers in a six-run top of the sixth inning to break a 2-2 tie. Jason Paredes and Patrick Bosley led off the frame with back-to-back round-trippers to put the Bobcats up 4-2. After two walks and an error to load the bases, Evan Colon hit a sac fly to drive in a run, and with two outs Logan Corrigan hit a three-run shot to right to give Frostburg an 8-2 lead.
 
Cortland mounted a rally in the bottom of the eighth to close within 8-5. Joe Tardif (Cutchogue/Mattituck) led off with an infield single and Patrick Schetter (Beacon) doubled. Matthew Personius (Binghamton/Chenango Valley) doubled to right to drive in two runs, and he scored later in the inning on a Garrett Heaton (East Patchogue/Bellport) sac fly. A walk brought the potential tying run to the plate, but Mike Livingston struck out the next hitter to prevent further damage.
 
Cortland led 2-0 in the second. Jack Massa (Shoreham/Shoreham-Wading River) led off with a double, moved to third on an error and scored on a Wyatt Myers (Chittenango) RBI groundout. Marcos Perivolaris (Mattituck) followed with an RBI double to right. Frostburg tied the game in the fifth on RBI singles from Colon and Nick Fuhrmann.
 
Paredes went 3-for-5 with a homer and double and Fuhrmann was 2-for-4 to lead Frostburg's 10-hit attack. Brady Adam started and earned the win with seven innings of two-hit ball. He struck out eight, walked four, and gave up two runs, one earned. Livingston gave up only one walk and fanned two over the final inning and two thirds for the save.
 
Isiah Hudson (Hyde Park/FDR) started for Cortland and allowed three hits and three walks in four and two thirds innings. He struck out four batters and was charged with two runs. Jake Casey (Homer), the Red Dragons' third reliever, tossed the final four innings and allowed only two unearned runs. He gave up four hits, walked one and struck out five.
 
Johns Hopkins 4, Cortland 3 (10 inn.)
 
Dillon Bowman hit a leadoff homer to right center in the bottom of the 10th to give Johns Hopkins (3-2) the win. The Blue Jays also defeated Cortland on a walk-off homer last season.
 
Cortland led 3-1 with single runs in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings. The fourth inning run came without a hit on a Heaton walk, a Personius one-out hit-by-pitch, a dropped throw at third on a potential pickoff, and an error on Danny Coleman's (Saratoga Springs) grounder to second. Nate Budge (Central Square/Paul V. Moore) led off the fifth with a double – Cortland's first hit of the game - and eventually scored from third on a Heaton single. In the sixth, Paul Dondero (East Islip) walked with two outs, was safe at second on a dropped throw during a potential pickoff, and scored on Budge's single to center. Budge finished 2-for-4 and was the lone player for either team with multiple hits.
 
Hopkins had tied the game at 1-1 in the fourth when Zach Jaffe led off with a triple and scored on Chris DeGiacomo's sac fly. The Blue Jays tied the game with two in the sixth. DeGiacomo walked with one out and Mike Smith was hit by a pitch. Alex Darwiche doubled to drive home DeGiacomo, and Chris Festa hit an RBI single to left to plate Smith. A double play grounder ended the inning to keep the game tied.
 
Cortland had the best scoring opportunity over the next three innings. In the top of the ninth, Antonio Pragana (Hopewell Junction/John Jay) singled with one out and moved to second on a wild pickoff throw – Hopkins' fifth error of the game. Schetter singled to advance Pragana to third, but a flyout ended the inning. Schetter's single extended his hitting streak to 19 games. He has hit safely in all eight games this season in addition to the last 11 games of the 2017 campaign.
 
Mike Harrington (Glens Falls) started for Cortland and retired the first nine batters he faced before allowing Jaffe's triple. He went five and a third innings and gave up three hits, two walks and three runs with four strikeouts. Sal Zafonte (Sayville) permitted only one hit and fanned three in two and two thirds scoreless innings. Frank Vesuvio (Armonk/Byram Hills) pitched a scoreless ninth before allowing the Bowman homer.
 
Hopkins starter Alex Ross struck out nine batters and walked four in five and two thirds innings. He gave up three hits and three runs, one earned. Josh Hejka earned the win after toeing the mound for the final four and a third innings. He gave up three hits, walked none and struck out four.