CORTLAND baseball 2017 TEam Guide Season Preview In 2016, the Cortland three doubles, one triple, one baseball team secured its homer and 16 RBI. Personius 34th SUNYAC tournament recorded a 1.000 fielding championship, extended its percentage in 54 chances. NCAA playoff appearance streak to 24 consecutive Joining the program at the seasons and tied for third at position are junior Jack Massa the NCAA Div. III World Series. and freshmen Ben Closson, Jake The Red Dragons finished the Gursaly and Matt Seidner. season with a 43-8 record, reaching 40 or more wins in a Eight infielders return in season for the seventh time, 2017. Senior Steven Figueroa and gave 18th-year head coach played in 50 games last season. Joe Brown his 600th career Figueroa, who earned second victory early in the campaign. team All-SUNYAC, D3baseball. com All-Region and ABCA All- For the second consecutive Region honors and was named year, Cortland enters the the NCAA Div. III Regional MVP season ranked first nationally in 2016, batted .349 with 43 runs, Senior pitcher Alex Weingarten. in Div. III by both Collegiate a team-high 17 doubles, three Senior infielder Sean Getman. Baseball Newspaper and the triples, four homers, 41 RBI and web site D3baseball.com. The Red Dragons are set to play 10 games against 10 stolen bases. He also led the team with 10 sacrifice bunts. Sophomore 2016 NCAA qualifiers. Paul Dondero played in and started 42 games last season. He batted .313 with 45 runs, 10 doubles, one triple, four home runs and 20 RBI and was The Red Dragons return eight pitchers from last season and one successful on 13-of-13 stolen-base attempts. from 2015. Senior Jeff Cooke, the MVP of the 2016 SUNYAC Tournament, posted an 8-1 record with two saves, a 2.96 ERA and 50 strikeouts in 14 Senior Sean Getman batted .306 with nine runs, two doubles and appearances, including six starts. Senior Alex Weingarten returns to the four RBI in 25 games in 2016. Junior Patrick Schetter, who had his season program in 2017 after earning all-region honors in 2015. Weingarten went disrupted by injury, batted .224 with seven runs, three doubles, one triple 9-1 with a 2.83 ERA and 47 strikeouts in 10 starts. and eight RBI in 24 games. Sophomore Marcos Perivolaris saw action in 33 games, batting .313 with 15 runs, five doubles, one triple and five RBI. Sophomore Kashaun Curry stepped in as a freshman and posted a 4-0 record with a 3.43 ERA and 18 strikeouts in 13 appearances. Seniors Jesse Junior Matt Michalski missed almost all of the 2016 season due to Winters, Ryan Koval and Patrick Healy combined to make 26 appearances injury. Michalski batted .269 with nine runs, two doubles and five RBI in out of the bullpen in 2016. Winters recorded a 3.97 ERA in 11 games, Koval nine games. Sophomore Dan Schweitzer batted .400 with five runs, three fanned 12 in nine and a third innings and Healy saw the mound in eight doubles and five RBI in 11 games last season, and sophomore Dom DeMarco games. saw action in 11 games. Junior Jason Martin appeared in 10 games with three starts as a Senior Tyler Phillips, junior Nate Budge, sophomore Billy Kozak and sophomore. Martin posted a 2-1 record with a 2.89 ERA and 11 strikeouts. freshmen Billy Clifford and Dan DelGaizo join the program as infielders. Junior Ryan Smith posted a 3.68 ERA in six relief appearances last season, while junior Dylan Powers did not allow an earned run in his one Brown returns just three appearance. outfielders this season, although Dondero also is Newcomers to the slated to see action at the pitching staff include senior position. Senior Nick Hart was Billy Goncalves, juniors Patrick a second team All-SUNYAC and Merryweather, Mike Harrington, D3baseball.com All-Region and Payten Boice and Michael third team ABCA All-Region DeCarlo, sophomores Jake selection in 2016. Hart saw Casey and Andrew Barnes the field in 50 games, batting and freshmen Eric Sandusky, .350 with a team-high 49 runs, Anthony Visconte, Chris Dodrill, 11 doubles, one triple, two Greg Blum, Cory McArthur, homers and 41 RBI. He led the Nick Mongelli, Jake Woods and team with eight sacrifice flies Salvatore Zafonte. and stole 12 bases. Junior Ralph Nuzzi batted .255 with 10 runs, Brown welcomes back two two doubles, one homer and junior catchers this season. six RBI in 37 games. Sophomore Justin Teague earned second Nick Dunning delivered an RBI team All-SUNYAC, second team in six games as a freshman. D3baseball.com All-Region and Junior infielder Matt Michalski. third team ABCA All-Region Newcomers to the outfield honors in 2016. Teague batted include junior Jon Warner and freshmen Colin BeVard, Shawn Kelly, Joe Junior infielder Patrick Schetter. .339 with 24 runs, eight doubles Tardif, Casey Komanecky and Nick Shepheard. and 23 RBI in 43 games and committed just one error in 287 chances. Matthew Personius saw action in 36 games, batting .304 with nine runs, CORTLAND Coaching Staff Joe Brown Cortland to a 40-10-1 record and a second-place national finish at Head Coach the NCAA Div. III World Series. The national runner-up showing was Cortland’s second, both under Brown, with the first coming in Joe Brown has led Cortland to a com- 2005. bined 641-164-3 record, 17 NCAA Div. III tournament appearances, 10 World Series In 2009, Brown led Cortland to a 31-14 mark. The Red Dragons showings and 15 State University of New won the SUNYAC title and qualified for the NCAA Div. III play- York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) titles in offs. In 2008, Brown’s team enjoyed a 42-5 record that featured a his first 17 seasons as the Red Dragons’ head school-record 38-game winning streak. Cortland won the NCAA coach. His winning percentage of .795 is the New York Regional title and tied for seventh place at the World best of any coach nationally (NCAA Div. I, Series. In 2007, Brown guided Cortland to a 42-7 record and a II or III) with at least 10 years of experience fourth-place national finish with a 2-2 mark at the World Series. and the third-best all-time among all Div. III His 2005 squad finished second nationally with a 43-9-1 record. His coaches with 10 years as a head coach. 2000 and 2001 squads also won NCAA New York Regional titles and tied for fifth nationally each year. His 2003 and 2006 teams Brown led Cortland to its first-ever national title in 2015. The each tied for ninth nationally and his 2002 and 2004 teams both Red Dragons finished the season 45-4, including a 5-0 record at tied for 17th. the World Series and a 4-0 mark in NCAA regional play, and won the SUNYAC title. Brown was named both the American Baseball In 2000, he had the best season of any Cortland first-year Coaches Association (ABCA) and D3baseball.com Division III Na- head baseball coach, leading the Red Dragons to a 36-9 record, tional Coach of the Year, and he was one of eight finalists for the an NCAA Div. III New York Region title and a tie for fifth place at multi-division Skip Bertman National Coach of the Year award. His the World Series. In 2001, his squad finished 34-11, winning a re- 2016 squad tied for third nationally at the World Series and ended gional title and once again tying for fifth nationally at the World the year 43-8. Series. In 2002, Cortland finished the season 31-11 and participated in the NCAA Div. III regional. In 2003, the Red Dragons were 35-11, Brown has been named the advanced to the championship game of the NCAA regional and ABCA New York Region “Coach finished tied for ninth nationally. In 2004, the Red Dragons finished of the Year” 10 times (2000, 2001, 29-16 and earned one of three national “Pool C” at-large tourna- 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, ment berths. In 2006, Cortland posted a 39-9 record, won the 2014 and 2015) and the SUNYAC SUNYAC championship and advanced to the NCAA regional finals. “Coach of the Year” on six occa- sions (2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2015 Prior to his promotion to head coach, Brown was the top and 2016). He won the Eastern Col- assistant coach and pitching coach for Cortland teams that made lege Athletic Conference (ECAC) seven straight NCAA Div. III tournament appearances from 1993 to Upstate New York Div. III Coach of 1999 and four World Series showings between 1995 and 1999. the Year award in 2009 and 2015 and was the D3baseball.com New Born in Clifton Springs, N.Y., and raised in Maine, Brown moved York Region Coach of the Year in back to New York and graduated as a three-sport letter winner 2014 and 2015. Twenty-nine of his from Canandaigua Academy in 1986. He was inducted into the players have been chosen as All-Americans, including six who were Canandaigua Academy Sports Hall of Fame in the fall of 2006. selected in the professional baseball draft. In all, 18 of Brown’s A 1990 graduate of Ithaca College, Brown earned a Bachelor of players have advanced to play professionally, including two selec- Science in Physical Education. He played four years of baseball tions in the 2006 draft, one in 2007 and one in 2009.