Softball: Cortland Nipped by #21 Westfield St., 2-1, in NCAA Opener on Pair of Early Homers

BETHLEHEM, PA. – Westfield State hit two solo home runs in its first three at-bats and the top-seeded and nationally 21st-ranked Owls held on to defeat fourth-seeded Cortland, 2-1, in the opening game of a double-elimination NCAA Division III Softball Regional hosted by Moravian University. Cortland (25-16) will play either second-seeded Moravian or third-seeded Bowdoin in an elimination game Friday at 1 p.m., and if victorious would play another elimination game to follow on Friday. Westfield State (39-1) will play Thursday’s Moravian/Bowdoin winner in a winner’s bracket game Friday at 11 a.m. Cortland outhit Westfield, 7-5. Gianna Endieveri (Glens Falls)…