Saratoga Springs, N.Y. – The Skidmore College baseball team combined for 23 runs in two games as they cruised to a Liberty League sweep of Union College on Saturday afternoon at Castle Diamond. Skidmore took the opener, 7-1, and downed the Dutchmen 16-5 in the nightcap.
Skidmore is now 13-12 overall and 5-7 in league play, while Union falls to 5-12 and 2-8 in Liberty League play.
The opener was a one-run ballgame until the bottom of the fourth when the Thoroughbreds pushed four runs across the plate, helped by a bases-loaded double from junior Matt Pisani (Winchester, Mass.) and an RBI single from junior Anthony Ferri (Jersey City, N.J.).
Union scored its lone run of the opener in the fifth when junior Colin McKelligan's single knocked in classmate Andy Brown (Saratoga Springs, N.Y) from second base. Brown went 2-for-2 in the game with a double and one run scored.
Skidmore added two insurance runs in the sixth off of a Dutchmen error to put the final score at 7-1.
Pisani finished 2-for-3 with three RBI for the Thoroughbreds, while freshman Brian Lowry (West Hartford, Conn.) went 1-for-2 with two runs scored and two walks.
Sophomore Trevor Brucato (Stamford, Conn.) threw a gem for the home squad as he tossed six strikeouts with one earned run in the complete game effort.
Skidmore unleashed for 16 runs on 15 hits in game two, including an eight-run third-inning, to pick up the 16-5 win.
Lowry launched his second homerun of the season in the eighth as he went 3-for-6 with four RBI and four runs scored. Sophomore Rob Rubenstein (Highland Park, N.J.) also went 3-for-6 at the plate and had two doubles and four RBI.
Brown was 2-for-4 for Union and freshman Nicholas Renalli (Schenectady, N.Y.) went 2-for-3 with an RBI and one run scored.
Junior Derek Stork (Penn Yan, N.Y.) got his third win on the mound for the Thoroughbreds in the victory.
Skidmore will be at Middlebury College in its next contest on April 15 at 3:30 p.m.
