The No. 20 St. John Fisher College softball team split with the No. 14 SUNY Cortland Red Dragons in a doubleheader pitting two Top 20 teams on Tuesday afternoon in Cortland, NY. With the split the Cardinals moved to 24-8 overall on the season.

Since the two teams started playing each other back in 2005, Fisher and Cortland have split every year except one, when the Red Dragons swept the Cardinals in 2011.

Game One – Fisher 3, SUNY Cortland 2:

Kate Disbrow started the seventh inning with a single and was moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Jennifer Vanek. After two outs, Kayla Goodberlet singled a line drive to right field, allowing Disbrow to score the eventual game-winnning run from second to make the score 3-1.

In the bottom of the seventh, Danielle Leone induced a fly out to Lindsey Holtz in left field to end the game after letting up a run and with the a tying-run on second and the potential game-winner on first.

Fisher got on the board first when Carissa Carlson got on by way of an error and Sarah Fordyce hit a bomb to left center field for a homer.

The Red Dragons narrowed the lead to one in the third when a leadoff walk ended up costing the Cardinals. A single down the left field line scored the runner from third with two outs before Leone struck out the final batter looking to end the third.

Leone moved to 14-2 on the year with the win, and allowing just one earned run improves her 1.01 ERA, which is third-best in the nation.

Fordyce finished tied with a game-high two hits, going 2-for-2 at the plate with the important two RBI. Disbrow also tied for the game-high in hits, finishing 2-for-3 at the dish with a run scored. Megan Zoerb, Goodberlet and Leanne Merchant each had a hit, with Goodberlet driving the winning run to the plate in the seventh.

 Game Two – SUNY Cortland 4, Fisher 3:

Fisher had the go-ahead run on second base in the top of the seventh with the tying run at third and just one out. Fordyce stepped to the plate and roped a line drive to the shortstops right. The shortstop reached across her body and caught the liner, leaving little room for the runners to react, turning and throwing to double up Merchant at second to spoil the Cardinals comeback.

The Cardinals got on the board in the second when Vanek led off with a walk and two batters later Goodberlet drove her in with a single up the middle. Zoerb scored from third with two outs on a wild pitch to close the Cortland advantage to one, 3-2.

Cortland led off the bottom that inning with a solo home run to push the game to 4-2.

In the fourth Cortland was threatening with two-outs and bases-loaded before Vanek saved the game for the time being. A lined shot was hit to the right center gap and Vanek broke full stride, catching the ball right before the warning track but couldn't slow up, slamming into the fence and holding on for the out with her bare hand.

Fisher added a run in the fifth when Goodberlet hit in Vanek again. Jennifer Martin led the sixth off with a double but the Cardinals couldn't move her over, with one batter striking out and the last two fouling out to first.

Sarah Stefanon scattered 11 hits in her loss to fall to 10-6, allowing four runs and striking out one.

Goodberlet led all hitters with three hits, and had a game-high two RBI.

Fisher returns to action at 1 p.m. on Saturday at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ.