PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. - A four-run inning early in game one against Oneonta was all the Plattsburgh State softball team needed to pull off a win over the visiting Red Dragons, 4-3. Unfortunately, the Cardinals good fortune did not carry over to game two and the Red Dragons walked away with the win, 8-6, after eight innings of work.

Plattsburgh is now 18-11 overall and 7-4 in the State University of New York Athletic Conference, while Oneonta is 18-13 for the season, 9-5 in conference play.

Erin Jamieson drove in Katie McNally with a single through the left side for the first run of the day for Plattsburgh in the bottom of the third inning of game one. Ashley Napear followed her at the plate and knocked in two more runs with a double to left center and Danielle Gjergji scored what would become the winning run an at-bat later when Erin Florkiewicz drew a walk with bases loaded.

The Red Dragons attempted a rally in the top of the sixth, but came up short and plated only three runs. Katie Hackenburg ended the inning for Oneonta when she struck out swinging with runners on second and third.

Ashley Marshall (13-3) earned the win in the circle for the Cardinals. She struck out nine batters, as she has during all three of her last starts, gave up six hits and two earned runs.

In game two, Oneonta pulled ahead quickly when Bethany Truax knocked a shot over the fence in left center, scoring herself and Meg Beditz. Plattsburgh would tie the game by scoring one run in the second and third innings each, however, the Red Dragons plated two more runners in the fourth for a 4-2 lead.

Oneonta added one more run to that total in the sixth, but the Cardinals countered with three runs in the bottom of the inning. Two of those runs came when Florkiewicz hit her first collegiate home run that exited the park over the fence in left center, driving in Amy Woo from second. Woo had knocked in the first run of the inning with a double down the left field line just before Florkiewicz stepped to the plate.

Both teams notched a run apiece in the seventh inning to tie the game, 6-6, and send it into extra innings. Oneonta racked up two more runs in the eighth to secure the lead and then struck out Napear with the bases loaded for the final out of the game and the victory.

Heather Loughran (4-5) tossed seven innings for the Cardinals, gave up nine hits and struck out seven. Marshall took over in the eighth and allowed two hits and one earned run.

Florkiewicz topped the team during the day with three hits, two of which were for extra bases, four runs batted in and 16 putouts from behind the plate. Woo and Gjergji also recorded three hits and an RBI apiece. Diana Garces had five assists while covering third base for the Cards.