OSWEGO, N.Y. – The Plattsburgh State baseball team fell in their series opener to Oswego State on Thursday afternoon, as the Lakers won 15-5 in seven innings in a State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) game. Josh Foglia (Latham, N.Y./Shaker) was 3-4 for the Cardinals, driving in a run, while Kolby Mordecki (Poughkeepsie, N.Y./Roy C. Ketcham) struck out 10 in five innings of work, surpassing 100 total strikeouts in his career.

Mordecki now has 109 strikeouts in his career, which places him seventh on the all-time Plattsburgh leaderboard as he became just the eighth Cardinal in program history to reach the century mark. He finished with five innings pitched and 10 strikeouts, allowing three earned runs and walking just one.  Zach Rainville (Saranac, N.Y./Saranac) had two hits for the second straight game, going 2-3 with an RBI, a run scored and a stolen base. Joey Di Rocco (Congers, N.Y./Clarkstown South) was 1-2 with two runs scored, also walking, while Kyle Cremin (Yorktown Heights, N.Y./Kennedy Catholic) was 1-3 with a run scored and a walk.

Anthony Barone was 2-3 with a homer, a double, 5 RBI, and two runs scored, also walking, and Dylan Rosenberg was 4-5 with three runs scored and two RBI for Oswego State. Trey McGowan was 2-4 with two doubles, two runs scored, and a walk and Sean Dertinger pitched four innings, allowing one earned run, and Nick Cody allowed two unearned runs in three innings. The team also stole 12 bases over the course of seven innings.

Plattsburgh State falls to 8-15 (1-8 SUNYAC) while Oswego State improves to 16-11 (6-4 SUNYAC). The two teams will meet tomorrow to decide the series, with a doubleheader beginning at 12 p.m. in Oswego.

The Lakers struck first, opening the score with a sacrifice fly in the first inning, and then added two runs in the bottom of the second inning thanks to a passed ball and an error.

Plattsburgh cut into the lead in the top of the third, as Foglia drove in Rainville with a single to left and Caldwell brought in another run with a sacrifice fly. In the top of the fourth, a Rainville two-out single to left tied the game, evening the score at 3-3.

Oswego retook the lead in the following half-inning, as Rosenberg singled home a run and scored on a passed ball, going up 5-3.

The Cardinals got a run back on a failed pickoff attempt in the top of the fifth, getting back within a run with the score now at 5-4.

After Oswego went up 6-4 in the fifth with a Daniel Winchester single, they then went up 8-4 in the sixth on a Barone two-run homer.

After an error allowed a run to score in the top of the seventh, seven runs came in for the Lakers in the bottom of the inning on seven hits. Rosenberg walked off for a run-rule win with a single to left, giving Oswego the 15-5 wins in seven innings.