NEW PALTZ, NY – The Buffalo State softball team fell to Cortland by a final score of 6-0 on Sunday afternoon. With the defeat, Buffalo State was eliminated from the SUNYAC Tournament, ending with a third-place finish.

THE BASICS
FINAL SCORE: Cortland – 6, Buffalo State – 0

LOCATION: Mary Gray Deanne Field – New Paltz, NY

RECORDS: Cortland (28-8, 3-1 SUNYAC Tournament), Buffalo State (17-19, 2-2 SUNYAC Tournament)

INSIDE THE BENGAL BOX SCORE

·        Grace Albano (N. Tonawanda, NY/Niagara Wheatfield) recorded the lone Buffalo State hit.

·        Izzy Pezdek (Lancaster, NY/Grand Island) pitched the first 2.2 innings, allowing three earned runs, while Kaitlyn Schnitzer (Lancaster, NY/Lancaster) tossed the final 3.1 innings in relief, allowing just one earned run.

HOW IT HAPPENED

·        The Bengals were retired in order in the first three innings, but Pezdek pitched well to keep Cortland off the board in the first two innings.

·        In the bottom of the third, the Red Dragons struck for three runs on two hits, two walks, and a hit by pitch to go up 3-0.

·        With one out in the fourth, the Bengals got their first baserunner on a walk to Mya Hurley (Amherst, NY/Amherst). However, Hurley was stranded on first base after a lineout and a flyout.

·        Cortland scored twice in the fourth inning by taking advantage of two Buffalo State errors to go ahead 5-0.

·        The Red Dragons completed the scoring with a run in the bottom of the fifth inning on an RBI double by Julz Koch.

·        Albano singled to center in the top of the sixth to break up the no-hitter, but that was the last baserunner for the Bengals, as the next two hitters in the inning and the three batters in the seventh were retired.

FOR THE FOES

·        Kim Westenberg pitched the complete-game one-hitter for Cortland, and also went 1-for-2 with a walk at the plate.

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