SUNY Oneonta baseball moved their win streak to seven as the Red Dragons beat Montclair State 6-2 at Diamond Nation in New Jersey.
 
The Red Dragons split up the pitching duties having Thomas Bond (Somers/North Salem), James McCarty (Stony Brook/Chaminade), Nicholas Ponesse (Newburgh/Valley Central) and Takoda Sitar (Somers/Somers) each pitch two innings, and RJ Lyman (Mohegan Lake/Walter Panas) came in for the 9^th inning. The staff combined to only allow four hits while striking out seven batters. Bond earned his second straight victory of the year to improve his record on the bump to 2-1.
 
Junior Brandon Torres (Highland Mills/Monroe-Woodbury) went 4-4 at the plate including a leadoff triple to start the game. His leadoff triple was not wasted as he scored on an error made by the third basemen to give the Red Dragons a 1-0 lead.
 
In the 3^rd inning Torres singled up the middle to score James Ceparano (Melville/Half Hollow Hills East), and move Michael Grudzinski (Islip/Islip) to third base. Two batters later, senior Sean Mullins (Vestal/Vestal) hit a sacrifice fly ball to center field to drive in Grudzinski to give the Red Dragons a 3-0 lead.
 
A home run by Montclair States Dom Lampasona pushed the Hawks first run across the board, 3-1. But the Red Dragons answered back in the 6^th inning with a pair of runs to push the game to far out of reach.
 
Ceparano added a pair of hits and two runs batted in for the Red Dragons.
 
The Red Dragons are back in action on Monday, March 27^th at Houghton College to take on the Brockport Eagles (10-5/ 3-0 SUNYAC) in their first conference games of the season.