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jdex

#3270
Cortland (31-7) opens World Series play Friday evening in Grand Rapids IA vs. Salisbury MD (29-4) at  8:45 Eastern. Eight teams in action

RDragons in four team pod with Salisbury, Wheaton MA (20-5) and Rowan NJ (29-4). Latter pair square off at 6:30 Eastern. Teams vie in pod in double elimination format, with leader moving into best-of-3 final series  against leader of pod that includes .....

Friday foes Washington MO (32-4) vs. Johns Hopkins MD (15-4) at noon Eastern, St. Thomas MN (34-8) vs. Adrian MI (36-8) at 3:15 Eastern

jdex

#3271
Cortland drops 11-1 World Series opener to Salisbury MD in Friday late, late game in Grand Rapids IA.  Sea Gulls score four  in the first including S. Rahill three-run home run off S. Roberts (LP 2-1, 3.1inn, 5h, 7r, 5er, 3bb, 1k). Gulls 7-0 command entering the fifth when J. Varian gets Corts on the board with homer to left-center. S. Giordano, M. Bruno both 2x4 for Cortland. Lefty J. Balzan WP (8-1, 9inn, 9h, 1r, 1er, 0bb, 9k). Rahill 3x4, 3r, 4bi for Salisbury which faces Wheaton MA in Saturday late night show
     RDragons resume play late Saturday afternoon (early eve?) vs. Rowan NJ in losers bracket elimination game. Rowan tumbles 6-0 Friday to Wheaton MA
Cortland  ..1-9-2
Salisbury ..11-13-0

mr_b

Quote from: jdex on June 05, 2021, 09:16:48 AM
Cortland drops 11-1 World Series opener to Salisbury MD in Friday late, late game in Grand Rapids IA.  Sea Gulls score four  in the first including three-run home run off S. Roberts.
     RDragons resume play late Saturday afternoon vs. Rowan NJ in losers bracket elimination game
Any thoughts on the strategy behind using a relief pitcher (Roberts; 13 games, only 4 starts) in a starting role when there are others (Durant, 10 starts; Flansburg, 9 starts; Buchan, 6 starts; Mugnolo, 7 starts) with more starts and very solid numbers?  Now Cortland faces Rowan in an elimination game this afternoon.  The first game (Adrian vs. Johns Hopkins) in Cedar Rapids starts at 11 AM ET.


jdex

#3273
Quote from: mr_b on June 05, 2021, 09:53:27 AM
Quote from: jdex on June 05, 2021, 09:16:48 AM
Cortland drops 11-1 World Series opener to Salisbury MD in Friday late, late game in Grand Rapids IA.  Sea Gulls score four  in the first including three-run home run off S. Roberts.
     RDragons resume play late Saturday afternoon vs. Rowan NJ in losers bracket elimination game
Any thoughts on the strategy behind using a relief pitcher (Roberts; 13 games, only 4 starts) in a starting role when there are others (Durant, 10 starts; Flansburg, 9 starts; Buchan, 6 starts; Mugnolo, 7 starts) with more starts and very solid numbers?  Now Cortland faces Rowan in an elimination game this afternoon.  The first game (Adrian vs. Johns Hopkins) in Cedar Rapids starts at 11 AM ET.
Not a big surprise to this Dragon follower. From top to bottom this has not been a stellar Cortland pitching staff -- to say the least. Search for arms was on from the start of the season. No one really stepped up. Coach was quick with the hook. Durant the most experienced by far and he had issues with any length. Roberts didn't have much success till the tailend of the season, then came on. His late season work is probably why Cortland is even where it is. He toiled as a frosh for nat'l champ Cal Lutheran a few years back, but had never excelled at Cortland.
The fact that Cortland was unable to get out of the region early in the season as has been its custom perhaps showed up as well. Those early games in the past allowed Coach to work his staff. As the season progressed the SUNYAC didn't offer a ton of challenges. Cortland didn't even face a very good Oswego team till the conference tourney -- and then it took a superb Roberts' relief effort to advance. So to some extent he was tourney tested.
Believe this team overachieved with solid defensive play and its hitting which improved as the season progressed.
BYW, Salisbury pretty deep most everywhere. Didn't start its top pitcher last night.

jdex

#3274
Cortland overcomes Rowan NJ 4-2 in Saturday late night World Series elimination contest in Grand Rapids IA. Four run eighth inning does the job after pitchers ruled earlier and the Jersey Profs hold 1-0 lead. R. Flansburg (4.2inn, 6h, 1r, 1er, 1bb, 4k) and B. Gauthier (WP 6-2, 4.1inn, 3h, 1r, 1er, 2bb, 3k) provides the RDragons pitching lift. Rowan's fifth inning tally sees J. Marks with leadoff double, sac bunt and V. Cruz two out rbi single to left. Earlier, Rowan twice leaves runner at third. Cortland threatens in the second on S. Giordano single and D. Coleman one-out double. Strikeout, flyout ends the bid.
    Decisive Cortland eighth opens with B. Rhodes double to right. When A. Michalski bunt is thrown away, Rhodes scores tying run and Michalski reaches third. M. Krafft delivers rbi single through drawn infield. C. BeVard drops rbi double barely into right for 3-1 lead. Controversial fourth run comes on double steal of second and home, with pinch-runner P. Franzese first ruled out at the plate ....then safe following lengthy umpire video review which notes catcher's mitt holding the ball come off on the tag. Gauthier yields two doubles for Rowan's second run in the ninth. Prof lefty E. Atiya (LP 9-2, 7.1inn, 7h, 3r, 1er, 1bb, 6k) gives Cortland hitters fits into the eighth. Krafft 2x3, r, bi, bb; Giordano 2x4 for Dragons. R. McIsaac 2x5, bi, 2 2bh; Marks 2x3, 2r, bb, 2 2bh for Profs
    Cortland lives to play Sunday at 5:30 (count on LATER) vs. Wheaton MA whose nine was edged 11-9 late Saturday (early Sunday) by Salisbury MD
Rowan(29-6) ..2-9-1
Cortland(32-8).4-8-0

jdex

#3275
Cortland bows out of World Series with tough 11-8 loss to Salisbury MD on Sunday night/Monday morning in Grand Rapids IA. RDragons in their second game of the night and hold 8-7 lead into Salisbury bottom of the ninth. Three hit batters prove pivotal -- two with the bases loaded to drive in tying and winning runs. Corts go 1-2-3 in their ninth. RDragons trail in the game till M Bruno's two-run home run in the seventh for the 8-7 control -- their only lead of the game. Salisbury moves into Monday's championship best of 3 series vs. St. Thomas MN.
Salisbury ..11-17-1
Cortland....8-14-3
     
Earlier Sunday eve, Cortland eliminates Wheaton MA 6-2 and needed to defeat Salisbury Sunday, then again Monday to gain the overall final. Against Wheaton, Dragons use four-run top of the ninth inning to break 2-2 deadlock. Is CSt first lead of the game and setup by two walks and hit batter with no outs. M. Krafft sends roller into right field for two rbi single. Another run scores on outfield overthrow before C. Bonacci single to left drives in the sixth run. Dragon L. Krasney relieves M. Funk (WP, 5.2inn, 6h, 1r, 1er, 2bb, hbp, 73p). Inherits two runners but retires three straight Lions in the bottom of the ninth.
       Wheaton with a second inning run and adds Z. DeMattio long leadoff home run in the sixth for 2-0 lead. Meanwhile, Lions' hurler J. Roberge (8.1inn, 7h, 5r, 3er, 3bb, 3k, 2hbp) frustrates Cortland which leaves sacks loaded in the fifth and hits into DPs in 6th, 7th, 8th innings. Still, Dragons manage 2-2 tie with two runs in the seventh on Krafft rbi groundout and and error. Krafft 3bi finiah; S. Giordano 3x4, bb and terrific play in CF. Z. Durant starts on Cortland mound and works into the third. Wheaton's S. Quigley, DeMattio two hits each.
Cortland ...6-9-1
Wheaton...2-8-2

jdex

Cortland World Series conqueror Salisbury MD wins '21 title with two straight stops of St. Thomas MN in best-of-3 finals series in Grand Rapids IA. Sea Gulls score 2-1 and 4-2 verdicts Monday and Tuesday. Salisbury sails through tourney unbeaten for first baseball national crown.

Wold Series all-tourney team includes RDragons' outfielder Scot Giordano

jdex

Think Cortland gets early NY jump on the baseball season? Alfred State on Saturday debuted at preseason top-ranked Salisbury MD, dropping 17-7 and 13-3 nine inning tussles. Sea Gulls stretch win skein to 16 including 14 to finish national title run in '21. Two of those wins were at the expense of RDragons during the World Series.
Cortland -- ranked No. 2 in '22 preseason polls, for whatever those things mean -- begins its schedule Friday at Salisbury. Pair clash again Sunday, and both meet Widener PA on Saturday.
RDragons and Gulls returning substantial veterans, Salisbury with WS MOP Jackson Balzan.

Jim Dixon

I will get a chance to see Cortland when they visit Roanoke.  Having moved to the lower 48last year, I sat out the regular season last year but have a couple games already on my radar.

Caz Bombers

#2 Cortland at #1 Salisbury in the middle of February...maybe they re-match in May in the Don't Call It The College World Series

jdex

Debuting Cortland erupts for seven runs in the second inning and turns back host Salisbury MD 7-3 in mid-40s, windy Friday afternoon conditions. All of the scoring came in the first three innings of a matchup between 1-2 preseason poll-sitting foes who both return much of last season's World Series outfits. Salisbury is the national defending champs and today started WS most outstanding player J. Balzan on the mound. Sea Gulls stake lefty to 1-0 first inning lead that could have been much more. Salisbury kayoes RDragon starter R. Flansburg with three walks and sac fly. S. Weyand relieves and gets sharp DP grounder to shortstop B. Rhodes. Weyand winds up the winning pitcher when Corts send 13 to the plate in decisive second frame. With leadoff single, D. Coleman scores ahead of J. Varian home run to left into a stiff wind. P. Franzese plates third run with two-bagger and S. Giordano two more with another double. Coleman's second hit of the inning drives home the seventh run.
Salisbury (2-1) notches game's final two runs in the third. M. Funk (2inn), newcomer A. Fusco (2.1inn) and L. Krasney (2.2) complete Cortland's pitching rotation in five-hitter, with eight bb, , 3k. Gulls also send five to the mound with 5bb, 8k. Dragon returning All America S. Giordano 3x5 at the plate, collecting hits in each of the first three innings. S. Cameron with 2bi from Salisbury dh slot. Hosts strand 11, Corts 9.
Cortland faces Widener (0-3) Saturday morning in Salisbury and meets Sea Gulls again Sunday.

jdex

#3281
Cortland flexes offensive muscle to put down Widener PA (0-4) by 17-10 count Saturday morning at Salisbury MD where sunny skies still yield 40-degree windy conditions. M. Bruno three-run home run to right in the fourth inning gives RDragons 9-8 lead that was never overtaken. The veteran Bruno knocks in seven runs, going 3x6, 3r, 3bh, hr. Ex-Oswego Laker H. Holliday scores five times (3x3, bi, 2bb, 2 2bh).

Corts trail 7-5 and 8-6 in early going. Score in seven of nine innings including four in the ninth. Total 18 hits as S. Giordano is 4x5, 2r, 3bi, bb. D. Coleman is 3x6, r, bi; M. Kraft 2x5, 3r, 2bi. Widener ss K. Brex collects half of his side's 10 hits (5x6, 4r, 3bi), homers and doubles twice.
Five hurlers toil for winners. Frosh P. Dalton -- third to the mound -- gets the win (2.2inn, 1h, 1r, 1er, 3w, 3k). Starting junior J. Labruno works 1.1 innings. Cortland pitchers walk 10 -- 3 intentionally --- and get errorless support. Widener starter L. Nihill takes the loss (3.1inn, 8h, 9r, 5er, 2bb, 2k).

Cortland (2-0) plays Salisbury on Sunday for the second time in three days. Sea Gulls (2-2) drop 4-1 Saturday afternoon verdict to Widener (1-4) whose Pride strike for four ninth inning runs.

jdex

#3282
Cortland lets big lead get away late before A. Pragana rbi single in the 10th and T. Kensey clutch double play relief work provide 10-9 victory over homestanding Salisbury on Sunday afternoon. Verdict completes RDragons' season opening three games on the Sea Gulls' Maryland campus. Cortland twice beats its host around a win over Widener PA. Dragons and Gulls enter play second and first respectively in preseason polls. 
Six Salisbury runs over the eighth and ninth innings wipe out onetime 8-3 Cortland Sunday advantage. Sophomore righthander Kensey keeps Dragons alive. In his first collegiate mound appearance and summoned with the winning run on third and a runner on first, Kensey's second pitch results in a doubleplay. Then in Cortland's 10th B. Rhodes is hit by a pitch, moves around to third before Pragana chopper through the middle. Another Gulls' comeback is snuffed by a Kensey around-the-horn DP in the bottom of the 10th.

S. Giordano run-scoring single in the top of the first helps stake Corts to 2-0 lead. They never fall behind although Giordano's hit is lone Dragon safety till the sixth inning. Salisbury threatens often in the early going. Pulls even at 2-2 in the fifth. An inning later, D. Coleman puts Cortland up 3-2 with rbi single. Four-run seventh features Coleman's full-count bases loaded-clearing double to left, and a run in the eighth makes it 8-3. Gulls climb within 8-6 in the eighth, and after P. Franzese single adds to Cortland lead in the ninth, knot things 9-9 with three-run bottom of the ninth. C. Hyder leadoff homer ignites Salisbury rally capped by K. Caster two-run single to right with one out. Kensey comes to the rescue and notches the win (1.2inn, 1h, 1bb), stranding a runner in scoring position.

Salisbury (2-3) outhits Cortland 18-12. Coleman, M. Bruno and Rhodes with two hits apiece for the Dragons. S. Rice 4x4 with three doubles for the Gulls. Corts starter Z. Durant (3inn, 4h, 1bb, 1k) works in and out of early trouble. Six more take the mound for CSt. B. Epstein LP (1.2inn, 3h, 1r, 1er). Sea Gull B. Thalheimer throws first six frames (5h, 4r, 3er, 1bb, 4k)

Cortland back in action next week in Baltimore for three games starting Friday vs. Johns Hopkins (0-0). N.C. Wesleyan (3-3) is the Saturday foe, MIT (0-0) Sunday. Salisbury entertains Oswego for Saturday dh, Sunday single.



jdex

#3283
Cortland runs its record to 4-0 with Friday's 9-4 win over Johns Hopkins in sunny, chilly Baltimore. RDragons surge for five runs in the fifth ining to overcome 3-2 deficit against the preseason fourth-ranked Blue Jays who were making their first start. B. Disonell, third Cortland pitcher, closes things out retiring 12 of 14 Jays (4inn, 1h, 1bb, 1k). Dragons bang out 12 hits, half in the decisive fifth when S. Giordano sac fly provides 3-2 lead. D. Coleman two-run homer to right-center makes it 6-3. Earlier, M. Bruno two-run home run ties at 2-2. Bruno, Giordano and P. Franzese all with 2x4 games.
Bruno in left and Pragano in right make extraordinary catches -- Pragano eighth inning grab described as a "full superman dive" on Hopkins' video call.
Jays' starter K. Collins takes the loss (4.2inn, 6r, 6er, 8h, 1bb, 2k). Hopkins with six hits. Each team with an error -- the Cortland boot making two JH runs unearned off Cortland starter A. Fusco (3.1inn, 3r, 1er, 4h, 1bb, 1k). Cortland on the same field Saturday meets No. 19 North Carolina Wesleyan (3-3). then faces MIT on Sunday. 
Corts' cf S. Giordano and 3b D. Coleman on weekly d3 team for opening week performances.

New Paltz in Virginia Beach tumbles twice Friday, 8-2 to host Virginia Wesleyan (4-1) and 5-4 to debuting Ithaca. Hawks with shortlived 1-0 lead in top of the first vs. Wesleyan which seals verdict with 5-run seventh. B. Moeller LP (6inn, 3r, 3er, 0bb, 7k).
NP in afternoon clash with debuting Ithaca takes 4-3 top of the ninth lead when M. Boccaross delivers rbi double with two out. IC in the bottom of the inning gets C. Pederson game-tying double followed by two throwing errors allowing him to score with no outs. Ithacan K. Lambert (7inn) and NP N. Harvey (6inn) both work deep into the tilt.
Hawks (2-3) open last weekend in Maryland, beating host Mt. St. Mary's 15-1 and 7-3 before bowing 8-5.

Oswego begins campaign Saturday at No. 1 ranked Salisbury (2-3) in Maryland. Single game Sunday.

Plattsburgh plans Sunday opener at NY Maritime (dh)

Brockport scratches Friday date at Scranton. Eagles on Saturday at New Jersey City U. and Sunday vs. Kean at Union NJ

jdex

#3284
Cortland suffers first loss in 5-3 Saturday verdict to 19-ranked North Carolina Wesleyan at cold Baltimore. NCW Battling Bishops (4-3) break 2-2 tie with two-run eighth inning -- throwing error and hit batter producing the pair, and another run after Cortland miscue in the ninth. RDragons use four of their total 10 hits by nine players for two scores in the first frame. S. Giordano (2x5) and D. Coleman poke rbi singles. Wesleyan's E. Jackson (3x4, 2r, 2bi) homers in the third and keys Carolina crew decisive eighth inning with leadoff single. Ace lefty D. Carter (7inn, 8h, 2r, 0er, 1bb, 2k) keeps Cortland at bay. D. Cheeley closes (0er). Dragon mound rotation opens with R. Flansburg (6inn, 4h, 2r, 2er, 1bb, 6k) and follows with J. Lebruno (LP), M. Hennessy (0inn), B. Battaglini (2inn).
    North Carolina Wesleyan follows with 7-0 blanking of season opening MIT in second game of tripleheader. Johns Hopkins (0-1) winds up the day 12-2 winners vs. MIT.
    Cortland (4-1) on Sunday meets MIT in Baltimore followed by Hopkins/NC Wesleyan clash.
NC Wesleyan  5-7-5
Cortland          3-10-3

Oswego downs Salisbury 3-2 in second game of dh in Maryland on Saturday after succumbing 15-2 in Lakers' opening game. R. Weiss single to left drives in winning OState run in the top of the ninth and reliever B. Wilcox (3inn, 2h, bb, 2k) strands two Sea Gulls in the bottom of the ninth. Salisbury (3-4) scratches out two runs without a hit against A. VanFosse (6inn, 0h, 2r, 1er, 2bb, 5k). Oswego hits safely in each of the first seven innings. Gets J. Drew (3x5) run on wild pitch in the third and F. Levanti's game-tying rbi two-out single in the sixth. Lakers with 11 hits but leave 13 runners on base.
    First game sees Sea Gulls score in seven of eight at-bats.  Laker R. Enos 2x2, 2r, bb. OState with five hits, three errors. Salisbury notches 18 hits, no errors. J. Sharma first to the hill for visitors (3inn, 6r, 2er).
    Oswego and Salisbury meet again Sunday.

New Paltz 13-8 Saturday victim of Ithaca in Virginia Beach rematch of IC opener on Friday. Bombers (2-0) on 10 run tear over first five innings. B. Shirley 3x5, 3r, 4bi, bb, hr paces Ithaca whose G. Merod and C. Pederson have three-hit games as IC has 16. In Hawks' 12 day R. Mackle 3x5, 2r; M. Boccarossa 4bi. Z. Grimes WP (5inn). Ithaca vs. Virginia Wesleyan (4-1) this afternoon. NP 2-4

Brockport lifts off in 8-1 winning style at New Jersey City on Saturday. Post at least one run in each of the first four innings for 5-0 cushion. Play errorless ball and have five hits. T. Kretzler 1x2, r, 2bi, bb; R. Mansell 3r, 2bb; N. Pastore 2r. A. Huffman (WP, 4.1inn, 3h, 3bb, 8k), J. DelVecchio, C. Meldrim fan 16 and toss shutout till the ninth. NJ City (1-1) with six hits, two miscues. Port goes against Kean on Sunday at Union NJ.

Oneonta dh at Rutgers-Camden ppd. to Sunday in Camden NJ