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While starting pitcher Alex Weingarten and a pair of relievers were holding visiting Oneonta to just two hits, solo home runs by Conrad Ziemendorf and Donny Castaldo were featured in a 16-hit attack that carried SUNY Cortland to a 13-0 shutout baseball victory on Friday afternoon.
The No. 1 nationally-ranked Red Dragons improved to 10-1 in the SUNY Athletic Conference and 25-2 overall, Coach Joe Brown’s first place squad to host Oneonta in a noontime doubleheader today to complete the three-game series.
Cortland heads into the twin bill riding a seven-game win streak.
Some twenty minutes prior to the first pitch today, the team will honor long-time Red Dragon coach Bob Wallace who passed away last December at age 87. A military recognition ceremony will be held to remember Wallace, who was a Navy veteran. Wallace coached the Red Dragons from 1958-82, and Cortland’s field was named for him in 1996.
Weingarten, now 5-1, allowed both Oneonta hits during his six innings of work. Turner Parry worked the seventh and eighth, giving up one walk and striking out two, before Jason Martin retired the side in order with two strikeouts in the ninth.
First baseman Austin Clock finished 3-for-4 with a double and three RBIs for the Red Dragons, while Anthony Simon was 2-for-3 and Ziemendorf 2-for-4 — each driving home two runs.
The lone base hits for Oneonta (3-8 SUNYAC, 6-16 overall) were a Casy Kies two-out single in the first and a Dillon Merola one-out single in the third. The lone Oneonta player to reach second came with two outs in the eighth when Domenick Desiderio was hit by a pitch and Sean Mullins walked.
Ziemendorf homered with one out in the bottom of the first to put Cortland up 1-0. The Red Dragons sent a dozen batters to the plate in a six-run second inning that featured a Ziemendorf RBI double, a Simon hit-by-pitch with the bases loaded, and a Clock three-run double to left center.
Cortland added a run in the third on Simon’s RBI single. Castaldo hit a solo homer in the fifth, and the hosts added three in the sixth on an error, an Adam Smith bases-loaded walk, and a Nick Hart RBI infield single. Patrick Schetter closed the scoring in the seventh with an RBI single following a Sean Getman two-out double.
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ON SUNDAY, A memorial service will be held for Wallace at the Lynne Parks ’68 SUNY Cortland Alumni House on 29 Tompkins Street in Cortland. The event will run from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m., with a tribute to Wallace beginning at noon.
Shuttle bus service to the Alumni House will begin Sunday at 10:45 a.m. from the Park Center on the lower end of campus. SUNY Cortland President Dr. Erik J. Bitterbaum and Cortland baseball head coach Joe Brown are among those scheduled to make remarks at the tribute.
Wallace and his wife Sally Yaeger Wallace (Class of 53), who coached softball, women’s golf, women’s basketball and women’s swimming during her tenure at Cortland, were both inducted into the Cortland C-Club Hall of Fame in 1979. Following their retirements they traveled across the country as alumni ambassadors for the College. Sally passed away in 2008.