CORTLAND, N.Y. – Cortland overcame an early 2-0 deficit and the nationally 24th-ranked Red Dragons won their home opener versus Keuka College, 16-2.

Senior Kevin Jackson (Wappingers Falls/Roy C. Ketcham) went 3-for-3 with three RBI after entering the game as a defensive replacement in the top of the fifth inning for the Red Dragons (12-5). Junior Billy Ribeiro (Congers/Nyack) hit a two-run homer and finished 1-for-3 with a walk and three RBI, senior Khyle Dimino (Brighton) went 2-for-2 with a walk and three RBI and senior Damon Arnold (Wellsville) was 2-for-3 with an RBI.

Junior Kris Gentzke (Clarence Center/Clarence) earned his first victory with five innings of six-hit ball. He struck out six, walked four and gave up two runs. He allowed four hits and a walk in Keuka's two-run first inning before settling down over the next four innings.

Matt Dunn went 2-for-4 with an RBI and Neil Halvorsen drove in a run for the Storm (0-3). Ted Black drew three walks and scored once in five plate appearances. Jason Kirkum suffered the loss after allowing five runs, one earned, in three innings. He gave up six hits and three walks.

Keuka scored its two runs on first-inning RBI singles by Halvorsen and Dunn. The Storm, however, left the bases loaded in the inning, and stranded 13 runners in the game – 10 over the first four innings.

Dimino's two-out, bases-loaded infield single plated a run for Cortland in the first. The Red Dragons added four in the third on a Dimino RBI single, Ribeiro's two-run homer to right and, two batters later, an Arnold RBI single.

Cortland picked up three more runs in the fourth when Keuka reliever Kyle Sherin walked three straight batters with the bases loaded. Jackson singled in a run in the fifth, and Cortland's six-run seventh inning included RBI singles by Shawn Bailey (Webster/Webster Schroeder), Dan Kaplan (Penfield) and Jackson as well as an RBI groundout by Dean Butler (Bristol, VT/Mount Abraham Union). Cortland's final run came on a Jackson single in the eighth.

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