ITHACA, N.Y. – Nationally 12th-ranked Cortland scored 10 runs over the first four innings and defeated host Ithaca College, 13-4, in a non-league matchup. The Red Dragons improved to 30-7-1 on the season and reached the 30-win mark for the 16th time in the last 17 years.

Sophomore Matt June (Colonie) finished 3-for-4 with a triple, walk, RBI and four runs scored. He extended his hitting streak to 17 games with a leadoff single in the top of the first inning. Senior Adam Dimino (Honeoye Falls/Honeoye Falls-Lima) went 2-for-5 with a triple, three RBI and two runs scored and junior Jason Simone (Utica/Thomas R. Proctor) drove in three runs.

Senior Andersen Gardner (Fairport) drove in a run with a second-inning sacrifice fly for his school record-tying 149th career RBI. He currently shares the record with Scott Weston, who amassed his RBI total from 1997-2000.

Junior Travis Ratliff (Levittown/Division Avenue), the first of six Cortland pitchers, earned the win and is 7-0 on the season. He allowed three hits and no runs, walked two and struck out three in two and a third innings before being removed after eclipsing his 50 pitch-count limit. Junior Mike Assmann (Auburn) gave up one run and struck out two over three and two-third innings to help the Red Dragons maintain the lead.

T.J. Abone went 2-for-4 with a homer, two RBI and two runs scored for Ithaca (15-14). David Ahonen finished 2-for-4 with an RBI and Russ Martens went 2-for-3. Andrew Wall was Ithaca's most effective pitcher, retiring all nine batters he faced from the fourth through sixth innings.

Cortland scored twice in the first, including a Simone RBI single, and three times in the second on a Dimino fielder's choice, Gardner's sac fly and a throwing error. The Red Dragons' five-run fourth inning featured RBI singles by June and Dimino, an RBI grounder by Simone, a Kevin Jackson (Wappingers Falls/Roy C. Ketcham) bases-loaded walk and a John Zilnicki (Riverhead) sac fly.

Cortland's final three runs came in the eighth on back-to-back triples by June and Dimino, a Simone RBI fielder's choice and a Kris Gentzke (Clarence Center/Clarence) sac fly.

For Ithaca, Ahonen singled in a run in the fifth, and in the seventh, Abone hit a two-run homer and Rob Zappia singled home a run.

Cortland will host the four-team, double-elimination SUNYAC tournament Friday-Sunday, May 7-9. Cortland will play Friday at 3:30 p.m. in the tournament's second game.

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