OSWEGO, N.Y. – The second-seeded Oswego State baseball team lost a 2-1, 11-inning battle with top-seeded Cortland in its first game on Friday. In an elimination game with No. 3 New Paltz, the contest was halted due to rain with the Lakers leading 4-0 in the sixth frame. Oswego and New Paltz will resume its tilt at 10 a.m. on Saturday. The winner will face Cortland in the championship round immediately following the completion of the halted game and will need to win the tournament's sixth and seventh game for the title. Cortland needs one win on Saturday to claim the championship.

CORTLAND 2, OSWEGO 1 (11 INN):

Cortland benefited from a questionable no-call on what appeared to be a third strike and the Red Dragons knocked a home run on the next pitch to walk-off in the bottom of the 11th. That was the end to an outstanding performance by starting pitcher Robert Donnelly. The senior threw all 10.2 innings, allowing just two runs by scattering six hits on 126 pitches. Of the 126 pitches that Donnelly tossed, 87 went for strikes, a more than 2-to-1 strike to ball ratio.

The Red Dragons struck first in the bottom of the seventh frame. With runners on the corner and nobody out, Donnelly induced a double-play grounder that let in the tilt's first score. Oswego answered right back in the top of the eighth. First baseman Kevin Hylas singled up the middle with one out and then moved to second when Zach Whelan reached on catcher's interference. Brandon Nicholson was able to knock a single over the shortstop's head and into left field, plating Hylas and evening the game at 1-1.

OSWEGO 4, NEW PALTZ 0 (IN PROGRESS):

At 6:19 p.m., heavy thunderstorms moved into the area and halted the game. Oswego holds a 4-0 advantage over No. 3 New Paltz in the top of the sixth inning. The Hawks have a runner on first, two outs and a 3-2 count on their current batter.

Oswego got to the 4-0 margin starting in the bottom of the first. Nicholson scored from third when Myles Kutscher reached on a throwing error by the third baseman. In the third, Mike Dellicarri singled to the pitcher, followed by a double to right field by John Barnes. Eli Holton drove in both teammates with a two-out single through the left side, pushing the Lakers to a 3-0 advantage.

Friday's final run was manufactured almost single-handedly by Hylas. The senior led off the bottom half of the fourth with a single to right field. With two outs, Hylas stole second base and then moved to third on a throwing error by the catcher. On the next pitch, he nabbed home standing up after a wild pitch got to the back stop.