The SUNY Oneonta baseball team put together a superb team effort today in shutting out visiting Mount St. Mary in its season finale.  Senior Kyle Jordan (Levittown/Division) was masterful in recording a complete game, two-hit, shutout in his final collegiate start for the Red Dragons.  Classmates Mike Cruz (Levittown/Division Avenue) and Jon Halligan (Cornwallville/Cairo Durham) led the offense for Oneonta in their final games for Oneonta.  Cruz had a pair of doubles and drove in one run while Halligan had one hit and scored two runs.
 
Oneonta scored its first three runs of the game in the bottom of the second inning.  Halligan was hit by a pitch to start the inning and went to second on a single by sophomore Sean Mullins (Vestal/Vestal).  Halligan came around to score when the pitcher for the Knights airmailed a throw on a sacrifice bunt, which allowed Mullins to get to third and junior Jack Burns (Endicott/Union Endicott ) to advance to second base.
 
The next batter was Casey Kerdesky (Cornwall/Cornwall) and hit a fly ball to right field deep enough for Mullins to score from third.  Burns scored on a double by junior Joe Franke (Livingston Manor/Liberty Central).
 
Jordan was perfect through the first three innings and didn't surrender a hit until the fourth inning with one out.  Jordan threw 86 pitches today and recorded two strikeouts, facing 32 batters.
 
Oneonta plated a single run in the fifth inning on three consecutive singles by Halligan, Mullins and Burns.
 
An RBI double by Cruz scored freshman Dillon Merola (Cornwall/Cornwall) from first base in the seventh inning.
 
The Red Dragons scored its final three runs in the eighth inning.  A pair of RBI doubles by Kerdesky and LJ Gizzarelli (Newburgh/Newburgh Free Academy) accounted for the first two runs.  The final run of the inning was driven in by freshman Sam Beaulac (Wynantskill/Averill Park ), who hit a sacrifice fly to centerfield that knocked in Franke.