For Immediate
Release: May 8, 2006
Contact: Janelle Feuz, SUNYAC Publicist
Cortland
Captures Three More SUNYAC Titles as Plattsburgh
Earns Softball Crown
Cortland Takes Home the Commissioner’s
Cup for the Third Consecutive Year
FREDONIA, N.Y. –
SUNY Cortland captures women’s lacrosse, men’s lacrosse and baseball SUNYAC
Championship titles and takes home the Commissioner’s Cup for the third
consecutive year and the ninth time since it began in 1996. The Red Dragons
totaled 9.63 overall points. Geneseo came in second with 9.50 points. Brockport
was third with 7.63 points.
Saturday afternoon, both Cortland’s men’s and women’s lacrosse teams
defeated Geneseo in the SUNYAC finals. The men defeated Oneonta, 8-5, on
Wednesday before upsetting the first-seeded Geneseo Knights, 13-7 in the title
game. Friday, the women Red Dragon’s came out on top in the semifinal game
against Buffalo State, 14-3, and remained undefeated on
the season with a 14-8 victory over the Knights in the championship game. This
was the eighth consecutive year that the Cortland
women won the SUNYAC title and the sixth time that the men won since 1999. Both
teams earned an automatic bid into the NCAA Division III Tournament. The
Women’s team has been chosen to host a four-team NCAA Division III
regional Saturday and Sunday, May 13-14. Cortland
(17-0) receives a first-round bye and will face either Colorado College
or Endicott on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. Men's lacrosse will host either Eastern
Connecticut St. or Stevens Tech in an NCAA Division III second round game
Saturday, May 13. The Geneseo men’s lacrosse team received an at-large berth
into the tournament with a 12-2 overall record and will host either St. Lawrence
or Endicott on Saturday, May 13th.
The Cortland
baseball team went through the loser’s bracket to beat Brockport twice on
Sunday afternoon to win the championship by scores of 8-5 and 4-2. The Red
Dragons were upset by Brockport on Friday, 10-4 but came back to beat Plattsburgh, 11-2 to
advance to Saturday. Cortland
defeated Oneonta 14-3 to set their run for the title on Sunday. This was Cortland’s fourteenth
SUNYAC title in 16 years.
The Plattsburgh Cardinals won its
first-ever SUNYAC softball Championship on Saturday with a dramatic 4-3
come-from-behind victory over second-seeded Cortland. The Red Dragons jumped out to a 3-0
lead before Plattsburgh
pulled to within one in the fourth inning and tied the game in the fifth. The
Cardinals got the game winning walk off home run in the tenth inning to earn
their 22nd consecutive victory and the SUNYAC’s
automatic berth to the NCAA Division III Tournament. Plattsburgh
(37-7) has earned the number-one seed for the Northeast Regional, hosted by Ithaca College
and will face the Union/Western Connecticut winner at 4 p.m. on Thursday May
11, 2006.
Softball Tournament
Results
Thursday, May 4, 2006
Game 1 #1 Plattsburgh def. #6 Oneonta, 5-2
Game 2 #5 Geneseo def. #2 Cortland, 7-0
Game 3 #3 Buffalo State
def. #4 Brockport, 6-1
Game 4 #2 Cortland
def. #6 Oneonta, 9-0
Friday, May 5, 2006
Game 5 Plattsburgh def.
Brockport, 10-2
Game 6 Buffalo State
def. Geneseo, 6-1
Game 7 Cortland
def. Geneseo, 4-0
Game 8 Plattsburgh def. Buffalo State, 2-1
Saturday, May 6, 2006
Game 9 Cortland
def. Buffalo State, 5-2
Game 10 *Plattsburgh
def. Cortland
4-3 (10 innings)
Women’s Lacrosse Tournament Results
Friday, May 5, 2006
Semifinal #1 Cortland
def. #4 Buffalo State, 14-3
Semifinal #2 Geneseo def. #3 Oneonta, 13-11
Saturday, May 6, 2006
Final *Cortland
def. Geneseo, 14-8
All-Tournament Team
Michelle
Zimmer, Cortland (MVP)
Jennifer Willis, Cortland
Ali Bourgal,
Cortland
Erin Gallagher, Cortland
Dyan Voorhees, Cortland
Maggie Benham,
Geneseo
Megan Hilts, Geneseo
Colleen Byrne, Geneseo
Leah Bernal, Buffalo State
Ashley Parker, Buffalo State
Erin Maybeck,
Oneonta
Jenna Van Etten,
Oneonta
Men’s Lacrosse Tournament Results
Wednesday, May 3, 2006
Semifinal #1 Geneseo def. #4 Oswego, 12-4
Semifinal #2 Cortland def. #3 Oneonta, 8-5
Saturday, May 6, 2006
Final *Cortland
def. Geneseo, 13-7
All-Tournament Team
Matt O’Connell, Cortland (MVP)
Ryan Heath, Cortland
Ben Gaebel,
Cortland
Mike Felice,
Cortland
Cheney Raymond, Cortland
Tim McDermott, Geneseo
Rick Bova,
Geneseo
Mike Pizzuto,
Geneseo
Greg VanRemmen,
Oneonta
Neal Campbell, Oneonta
Matt Pfister,
Oswego
John Schumacher, Oswego
Baseball Tournament Results
Friday, May 5, 2006
Game 1 #2 Oneonta def. #3 Plattsburgh,
1-0
Game 2 #4 Brockport def. #1 Cortland, 10-4
Game 3 Cortland def. Plattsburgh, 11-2
Saturday, May 6, 2006
Game 4 Brockport def. Oneonta,
4-3
Game 5 Cortland
def. Oneonta, 14-3
Sunday, May 7, 2006
Game 6 Cortland
def. Brockport, 8-5
Game 7 *Cortland
def. Brockport, 4-2
*SUNYAC Champion
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