CORTLAND baseball 2016 TEam Guide Season Preview In 2015, the Cortland one triple, one homer and 12 RBI baseball team finished off a 9-0 in 28 games, including 10 starts. run through the NCAA Div. III Connor Manderson played in 26 playoffs with a 6-2 victory over games with 11 starts, batting .342 Wisconsin-La Crosse at the with eight runs, two doubles and World Series in Grand Chute, four RBI. Wis., to capture its first-ever national title. The Red Dragons Seven infielders return in completed the season with 2016. Senior first baseman Austin a school-best 45-4 record, Clock earned second team captured their 33rd SUNYAC ABCA All-Region honors and tournament championship and was named to the SUNYAC All- made their 23rd consecutive Tournament Team last season. NCAA playoff appearance. Clock started 47 of the 48 games in which he played. He batted This season, 17th-year .317 with 31 runs, 12 doubles, one head coach Joe Brown’s squad triple, one home run and 40 RBI. enters the campaign ranked Junior Matt Michalski saw the first nationally in Div. III by both field in 43 games, including 37 Collegiate Baseball Newspaper starts. Michalski was a second and the web site D3baseball. team All-SUNYAC selection and Senior pitcher Travis Laitar. com. Brown has put together earned a spot on the NCAA Div. Senior outfielder Fabio Ricci. a daunting schedule in 2016. III World Series All-Tournament The Red Dragons are scheduled to play 14 games this spring against teams Team. He batted .369 with 34 runs, five doubles, three triples and 23 RBI. currently in the Collegiate Baseball top 40. Senior Connor Griffin earned first team All-SUNYAC honors in 2015 after Brown is going to need several new pitchers to step up in 2016 since batting .409 with 14 runs, three doubles, one triple and 14 RBI in 29 games, just two returning players earned starts last season. Senior Seth Lamando including 14 starts. Senior Keith Andrews batted .400 with eight runs, three brings the most experience to the starting rotation having appeared in eight doubles and eight RBI in 18 games, including five starts. Sophomore Patrick games with seven starts. Lamando, who was named to the NCAA Div. III Schetter saw action in 28 games with 11 starts as a freshman, Schetter batted All-Tournament Team and the SUNYAC All-Tournament Team, posted a 6-0 .429 with 12 runs, four doubles, two triples and 17 RBI. record with a 1.16 ERA and a team-high 56 strikeouts in 46.2 innings. He may also earn time at third base this season. Senior Nick Di Benedetto earned Junior Sean Getman played in 22 games with five starts in 2015. Getman four starts in seven appearances, posting a 3-0 record with 12 strikeouts in batted .294 with 11 runs, three doubles and nine RBI. Sophomore Ralph Nuzzi 16.2 innings. batted .250 with six runs, one triple and three RBI in 22 games, including two starts. Freshman Paul Dondero missed most of 2015 due to injury. In six Senior Travis Laitar earned third team D3baseball.com All-Region and games, Dondero batted .273 with three runs and an RBI. second team All-SUNYAC honors last season. In 14 appearances, Laitar posted a 1.86 ERA and a team-best four saves, while fanning 26 batters in 19.1 Junior Steven Figueroa and freshmen Dom DeMarco, Jake Hewitt, innings. Senior Adam Brant led Cortland with 16 appearances and a 1.09 ERA. Andrew Pedone and Marcos Perivolaris join the program as infielders. Brant finished with a 4-1 record in 33 innings. Brown returns five outfielders in 2016. Senior Conrad Ziemendorf was Senior Tyler Brien posted a 2-0 record with one save, a 1.84 ERA and named the Most Outstanding Player at the NCAA Div. III World Series, 14 strikeouts in nine relief appearances last season. Senior Turner Parry the ECAC Div. III Upstate New York Player of the Year and the SUNYAC appeared in eight games, recording a 3.18 ERA and 18 strikeouts in 11.1 innings. Bob Wallace Player of the Year last season. Ziemendorf earned honorable Junior Jesse Winters fanned 15 batters in 14.1 innings, while posting a 1-0 mention D3baseball.com All-America honors and was a first team ABCA and record in 11 appearances. Sophomore Jason Martin pitched in five games. D3baseball.com All-Region and All-SUNYAC selection. He saw the field in 47 Martin recorded a 1.35 ERA and nine strikeouts in six and two-thirds innings. games with 45 starts, batting .369 with 47 runs, a team-high 16 doubles, three Junior Patrick Healy tossed eight and two-thirds innings in seven relief triples, two homers and a team-best 46 RBI. appearances, while sophomore Ryan Koval, who missed 2015 due Senior Fabio Ricci played to injury, also returns. in 33 games with 21 starts as a junior. Ricci batted .400 with 29 Newcomers to the runs, seven doubles, four triples pitching staff include senior and 19 RBI and was named to Tanner Whiteman, juniors Sean the NCAA Div. III World Series DeBrosky, Jeff Cooke, Mike Mills, and Regional All-Tournament Ben Moxley and Ryan Smith and Teams. Junior Nick Hart, who freshmen Kashaun Curry and was selected to the SUNYAC Dave Nodeland. All-Tournament Team, batted .430 with 34 runs, four doubles, Three sophomore catchers 23 RBI and 10 stolen bases in 37 who combined to hit .358 with games, including 24 starts. 30 RBI last season return in 2016. Justin Teague saw action Sophomore Dylan Powers, in 41 games with 29 starts. He who also is slated to pitch this batted .323 with 25 runs, one season, went 2-for-2 at the plate double and 14 RBI and made in 2015, while sophomore Richie just one error in 232 chances. Harkenrider also returns in 2016. Matt Personius, who may also Newcomers to the outfield see time in the outfield, batted include freshmen Nick Dunning Senior pitcher Adam Brant. .452 with 15 runs, two doubles, and Brandon Kustek. Senior pitcher Tyler Brien. CORTLAND Coaching Staff Joe Brown finish at the NCAA Div. III World Series. The national runner-up Head Coach showing was Cortland’s second, both under Brown, with the first coming in 2005. Joe Brown has led Cortland to a com- bined 598-156-3 record, 16 NCAA Div. III In 2009, Brown led Cortland to a 31-14 mark. The Red Dragons tournament appearances, nine World Series won the SUNYAC title and qualified for the NCAA Div. III play- showings and 14 State University of New offs. In 2008, Brown’s team enjoyed a 42-5 record that featured a York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) titles in school-record 38-game winning streak. Cortland won the NCAA his first 16 seasons as the Red Dragons’ head New York Regional title and tied for seventh place at the World coach. His winning percentage of .783 is the Series. In 2007, Brown guided Cortland to a 42-7 record and a best of any coach nationally (NCAA Div. I, fourth-place national finish with a 2-2 mark at the World Series. II or III) with at least 10 years of experience His 2005 squad finished second nationally with a 43-9-1 record. and the third-best all-time among all Div. III His 2000 and 2001 squads also won NCAA New York Regional coaches with 10 years as a head coach. titles and tied for fifth nationally each year. His 2003 and 2006 teams each tied for ninth nationally and his 2002 and 2004 teams Brown led Cortland to its first-ever national title in 2015. The both tied for 17th. Red Dragons finished the season 45-4, including a 5-0 record at the World Series and a 4-0 mark in NCAA regional play, and won In 2000, he had the best season of any Cortland first-year the SUNYAC title. Brown was named both the American Baseball head baseball coach, leading the Red Dragons to a 36-9 record, Coaches Association (ABCA) and D3baseball.com Division III Na- an NCAA Div. III New York Region title and a tie for fifth place at tional Coach of the Year, and he was one of eight finalists for the the World Series. In 2001, his squad finished 34-11, winning a re- multi-division Skip Bertman National Coach of the Year award. gional title and once again tying for fifth nationally at the World Series. In 2002, Cortland finished the season 31-11 and participated Brown has been named the in the NCAA Div. III regional. In 2003, the Red Dragons were 35- American Baseball Coaches As- 11, advanced to the championship game of the NCAA regional sociation (ABCA) New York Region and finished tied for ninth nationally. In 2004, the Red Dragons “Coach of the Year” 10 times finished 29-16 and earned one of three national “Pool C” at-large (2000, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, tournament berths. In 2006, Cortland posted a 39-9 record, won 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2015) and the the SUNYAC championship and advanced to the NCAA regional SUNYAC “Coach of the Year” on finals. five occasions (2004, 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2015). He won the East- Prior to his promotion to head coach, Brown was the top ern College Athletic Conference assistant coach and pitching coach for Cortland teams that made (ECAC) Upstate New York Div. III seven straight NCAA Div. III tournament appearances from 1993 Coach of the Year award in 2009 to 1999 and four World Series showings between 1995 and 1999.