Baseball | 4/10/2011 5:04:27 PM

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CORTLAND, NY - The RIT baseball team (7-10) recorded just two hits and made five errors en route to a 13-1 loss at No. 20 SUNY Cortland (18-5) on Sunday afternoon.  Cortland ripped 16 hits and scored in six of its eight innings at the plate.

RIT scored its lone run in the seventh inning, as Ed Hughes (Jamesville, NY/Jamesville-Dewitt) ripped a double to right field that scored Dave Kernan (North Syracuse, NY/Cicero-North Syracuse), who walked.  Hughes also had RIT's other hit, a double down the left field line.

Cortland opened the scoring with a pair of first inning runs, then scored two unearned runs in the fourth and five unearned tallies in the fifth inning, knocking out RIT starter Mike Marsillo (Scottsdale, AZ/Desert Mountain).

Marsillo allowed just two earned runs in five innings, but did allow 10 hits.  Brad Wright (Baldswinville, NY/C.W. Baker) pitched a scoreless sixth inning, while Dan Schuster (Livonia, NY/Livonia) and Chris Dickinson (Honeoye Falls, NY/Honeoye Falls-Lima) allowed three hits and two runs apiece in an inning of work.

Twelve different Red Dragons had hits, including Zack Graczyk, who was 3-for-3 with two runs scored.  Nick Thode was 2-for-3 with three RBIs.

Cortland starter Scott Hartling picked up the win, allowing just one hit, while striking out seven batters in 6 1/3 innings.

The Tigers return to action with a single, non-conference contest at Rochester that gets underway at 4 p.m.