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Saratoga Springs, N.Y. – Skidmore College sophomore Caitlin Ketcham (North Clarendon, Vt.) hit a solo homerun in the bottom of the sixth inning of game one to propel the Skidmore College softball team to a 2-1 win over Liberty League foe St. Lawrence Saturday afternoon.
The Saints took the second game, 4-2.
Skidmore moves to 20-13 and 1-5 in conference play while St. Lawrence is now 5-23 with an identical 1-5 Liberty League mark.
In the opener, the Saints took a 1-0 lead in the top of the fourth when senior Lilah Brown (Easthampton, Mass.) drove an RBI single to right center to score junior Amy Atkins (Westerlo, N.Y.).
Thoroughbred sophomore Charlotte Evans (Pawling, N.Y.) put the home squad on the board in the fifth with her own RBI single that scored junior Michelle Anderson (Alfred, N.Y.) to even the score at 1-1.
Ketcham blasted her seventh homerun of the season to lead off the sixth and give Skidmore a 2-1 advantage, before freshman pitcher Sam Crose (Assonet, Mass.) held the visitors silent in the top of the seventh for the win.
Crose finished the complete game effort with 13 strikeouts, allowing just four hits and one earned in her 18th win of the season.
Ketcham was 1-for-2 in game one with an RBI and a run scored and freshman Lauren Bernstein (White Plains, N.Y.) added two hits for the Thoroughbreds.
Atkins was 2-for-3 with one run scored to lead the Saints.
St. Lawrence opened with three runs in the first in game two, powered by an RBI double from junior Molly Swan (Clifton Park, N.Y.), to give the Saints a 3-0 cushion.
Skidmore answered with two runs in the bottom half of the inning off of a two-run homer from junior Lauren Dinsdale (Harrington Park, N.J.) that cut the lead to one.
St. Lawrence extended the lead to two in the third off of a sacrifice fly by Swan that proved to be the final run of the contest for a 4-2 Saints victory.
Sophomore pitcher Rachel Duffany (Watertown, N.Y.) picked up the win for the visitors in the nightcap with four strikeouts and two earned runs.
Evans and Dinsdale each had two hits for the Thoroughbreds, while Atkins finished 3-for-3 with one run scored to lead the Saints.
Skidmore will host RPI tomorrow in its last doubleheader of the season at 1 p.m.
