Saratoga Springs, N.Y. – The Skidmore College softball team closed out its 2011 season with a pair of losses to RPI, Sunday afternoon at Thoroughbred Field.
The Engineers took the opener, 6-2 and the second game, 7-1.
The Thoroughbreds end the season with an 11-21 overall record. RPI improves to 24-8 overall and currently sits in a three-way tie for best record in Liberty League play.
In game one, Skidmore got out to an early 2-0 lead after putting up a run in each of the first two innings. In the first,
Julia Schwartz drew a bases loaded walk and in the second,
Carol Brown drove in
Derrin Jarvis with an RBI single.
In the third inning, the Engineers tied it up on a Jen Bach RBI single and a Sara Heller sacrifice fly. In the fourth, RPI took the lead on Jen Shields' RBI single and pushed the lead to 5-2 on Gillian McCarthy's two-run single.
The Engineers added another run in the seventh on Caitlin McGivern's bunt single and held on for the 6-2 victory.
Sam Crose (4-11) took the loss, allowing five runs (four earned) in 3.1 innings. Brown finished 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored.
Charlene Osmanski (4-1) earned the win, allowing just two hits in five shutout innings of relief. McCarthy went 3-for-4 with a pair of RBI.
In the nightcap, RPI got off to a fast start, putting up six runs in the first inning, highlighted by a three-run home run from Osmanski. They added another run in the second on a solo blast from Heller to make it 7-0.
The Thoroughbreds got on the board in the fifth when Brown scored on a wild pitch to make it 7-1, but that's all Skidmore would be able to put together as they dropped game two.
Bach (12-3) earned the win, tossing a complete game allowing just five hits and striking out 10.
Abby Fuhrman (4-6) suffered the loss for Skidmore. Crose pitched well in relief, allowing just two hits over 5.2 innings with seven strikeouts.
RPI 6, Skidmore College 2 (May 1, 2011 at Saratoga Springs, NY) (Game 1)
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RPI................. 002 300 1 - 6 14 0 (23-8, 5-2 Liberty)
Skidmore College.... 110 000 0 - 2 4 2 (11-20, 0-7 Liberty)
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Pitchers: RPI - Felicia Bua; C. Osmanski(3) and Heller . Skidmore College - Crose; Sorochka(4) and Brown.
Win-C. Osmanski(4-1) Loss-Crose(4-11) T-1:35 A-175
Weather: Mid 60's sunny
RPI 7, Skidmore College 1 (May 1, 2011 at Saratoga Springs, NY) (Game 2)
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RPI................. 610 000 0 - 7 12 2 (24-8, 6-2 Liberty)
Skidmore College.... 000 100 0 - 1 5 1 (11-21, 0-8 Liberty)
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Pitchers: RPI - Jen Bach and Heller; McNeil (5). Skidmore College - Fuhrman; Sorochka(1); Crose(2) and Brown.
Win-Jen Bach(12-3) Loss-Fuhrman(4-6) T-1:35 A-175
HR RPIW - Sara Heller (5); C. Osmanski (2).
Weather: Mid 60's sunny
