OSWEGO, N.Y. – The Oswego State baseball team fell in the State University of New York Athletic Conference Championship game by a score of 8-6 this afternoon.  The Lakers, who entered the weekend as the top-seeded team in the region, will now wait to hear about an at-large bid to the 2021 NCAA Division III Championship Tournament.

THE BASICS

• Final Score:  Cortland 8, Oswego 6
• Location:  Robert H. Wallace '53 Field, Cortland, N.Y.
• Records:  Cortland 27-6 | Oswego 24-5

HOW IT HAPPENED

• Shortstop Paul Tammaro got Oswego off to a solid start with a walk, stolen base and then advanced to third on a passed ball.
• Senior Ryan Enos brought Tammaro in with a groundout to the shortstop for the 1-0 lead.
• Cortland answered with a run in the bottom of the inning to tie the game up at 1-1.
• Oswego looked to break the game open in the second when Julian Drew singled and Connor Stanton was hit by a pitch.
• A successful sacrifice from catcher Dylan Frawley moved both runners into scoring position and Tammaro delivered a two-RBI double.
• After a Brendon Frank foul out, Enos cracked a two-run homerun to left field to put Oswego up 5-1.
• Just as they did in the first, Cortland used four hits and an error to tie the game back up at 5-5 in the bottom of the inning.
• The game remained tied until the fifth when a Frank single and stolen base allowed Enos to convert the RBI single to give the Lakers a 6-5 lead.
• In what became the theme of the game, in the bottom half of the inning, the Red Dragons used a walk and two straight doubles to retake the lead, 7-6.
• The hosts added one more in the sixth inning for the final scoring.
• Freshman Jai Sharma (3-2) pitched four and two thirds of an inning, yielding three runs in taking the loss.
• Junior Thomas Pecchia added two scoreless innings to keep the game within reach.
• Enos led Oswego in going 3-for-4 from the plate with four RBI.  Tammaro scored twice and knocked in a pair of runs.
• At the conclusion of the tournament, Enos, Kyle Lauria, Ryan Weiss, and Frank were each named to the 2021 SUNYAC Baseball Championship All-Tournament Team. 
• Enos was given the Elite 20 honor for the student-athlete with the highest grade point average among the finals participants.

WHAT'S NEXT
Oswego will await news of an at-large bid to the 2021 NCAA Division III National Championships.  The bracket will be released at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, May 23.