OSWEGO, N.Y. -- The Fredonia baseball team held leads of 1-0 in Game 1 and 11-10 in Game 2 heading into the final innings of each, but could not hold on.

Jake Harford gave the Blue Devils a quality start in the opener.  The Devils staked Harford to a 1-0 lead in the fourth. With two outs, consecutive singles by Kenny Johnston, Dan Cecilia and Vinny Sherman plated a run. Mike Prentice added a fourth-straight hit, but the Devils left the bases loaded.

Oswego led off the bottom of the sixth with a walk. A base hit followed, and Harford was relieved by Joe DiLeo. Following a sacrifice bunt to move the runners up to second and third, Myles Kutcher connected on a three-run home run. The Devils went one-two-three in the seventh to end the game as Oswego claimed a 3-1 win.

Fredonia opened Game 2 with a run in the first when Ricky Mendiola drove in Ryan Carmody for a 1-0 lead. The Lakers responded with a five-run outburst to take a 5-1 lead.

The teams traded scoring rallies with the Lakers holding an 8-4 lead in the top of the eighth.

In the eighth, three straight hits, followed by a bases-loaded walk made it 8-5. Ciro Frontale singled in the next run, followed by a game-tying double by Mendiola. Johnston gave the Devils a 9-8 lead with another base hit – still with no out. Dan Cecilia made the first out, an RBI grounder to second to plate Mendiola. Sherman and Mike Prentice added two more RBI singles before the inning was over.

All told, the Devils had eight hits and a walk to account for seven runs, taking an 11-8 lead.

Oswego would counter with a pair of runs in the eighth. A hit batter got things started. A single and double later, and the Lakers were within one, 11-10.

Oswego got things going in the ninth with another hit batter to start the inning. After a wild play on a sacrifice bunt resulted in the lead runner being thrown out at third, and the batter-runner staying at first, the next batter grounded to short, but not hard enough to turn the double play.

That brought Kutcher to the plate again with the game on the line. He delivered his second game-winning homer of the day.

Oswego improves to 23-6 overall and 14-2 in the SUNYAC.

The Devils fall to 9-16 overall and 4-9 in the conference. They take on Brockport Tuesday at Ludwig Field.