CORTLAND, N.Y. - For the first time this season, the Plattsburgh State softball team got swept in a doubleheader. The Cardinals fell 1-3 and 0-8 in six innings to State University of New York Athletic Conference foe Cortland. The Red Dragons are currently ranked eighth in nation by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association.

Plattsburgh is 19-14 for the season, 8-7 in SUNYAC play. Cortland rises to 32-6 overall, 16-0 in conference play.

Heather Loughran (4-6) pitched a complete game during the first contest of the afternoon. Loughran allowed only four hits and struck out four in six innings of work in the circle for the Cardinals.

Both teams scored all their runs in the fifth inning. Plattsburgh plated it's in the top of the inning when Katie McNally smashed a solo shot down the left field line. It was the second hit of the game for the Cardinals; Ashley Napear recorded the team's only other hit--a single to right--in the fourth.

Katie Finch dominated the game from the rubber once again for the Red Dragons. Finch sat down seven of the Cardinals and walked two. She has two perfect games so far this season, three overall for her collegiate career.

Ashley Marshall (14-5) suffered the loss in the second game for Plattsburgh. Marshall tossed 4.1 innings and gave up eight hits before Tanya Fedyshyn took over to close out the contest.

The game was a pitcher's duel until the bottom of the fourth when Cortland's Emily Ringen roped a shot over the fence in left center. She was followed at the plate two batters later by Jessica Harman, who tripled to right center and drove in Kayla Lynch.

The Red Dragons would go on to score three runs more in both the fifth and six innings for the run-rule victory.

Napear led the Cards during the game, going 2-for-2 and drawing one walk at the plate.