ONEONTA, N.Y. – The Plattsburgh State baseball team dropped their first State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) game of the season, falling to Oneonta, 19-0.

For the Cardinals, TJ Beninati (Suffern, N.Y./Suffern), Kyle Cremin (Yorktown Heights, N.Y./Kennedy Catholic), and Josh Foglia (Latham, N.Y./Shaker) each had singles. Drew Romesser (Akron, N.Y./Akron) tossed 1.1 innings of scoreless ball in relief, striking out two.

For the host Oneonta Red Dragons, Alex Wurster finished the day 3-3 with four RBI and two runs scored. Kyle Roper pitched a complete game shutout, striking out seven and allowing just three hits over seven innings. Ryan Cronin was also 3-4 with an RBI and Logan Hutter drove in three runs and scored three times.

Plattsburgh State falls to 5-6 (0-1 SUNYAC) while Oneonta improves to 8-5 (1-0 SUNYAC). The two teams will wrap up their SUNYAC series, tomorrow, March 22 beginning at noon in conference doubleheader action.

An RBI single in the first gave the Red Dragons an early 1-0 lead, and a two-run double by Wurster in the second put them up 3-0 after two innings of play.

In the third, Oneonta stretched their lead to 7-0, highlighted by a two-run single from Wurster that put the Red Dragons up 6-0.

Scoreless frames in the fourth and fifth followed but Oneonta put the run-rule into effect with a 12-run bottom of the sixth, despite just three hits, as they walked seven times and were hit four times.

A leadoff walk for the Cards in the seventh was stranded, as Roper retired the next three batters for the blowout win.