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Farmingdale, N.Y.— Playing its fifth elimination game in the last week, the Skidmore College baseball team had its season end at the hands of Castleton State, 8-1 at the NCAA New York Regional at SUNY Farmingdale.

The Thoroughbreds finish at 30-17, while the Spartans (34-15) stay alive to play in another elimination game on Friday.   Skidmore won four straight elimination games to win the Liberty League championship last weekend.

Castleton used a combination of speed and aggressive base running to score runs in the first, third to take a 2-0 lead. The Spartans extended the lead to 5-0, scoring three runs with two outs in the fourth on two hits.

Skidmore got on the board in the sixth when Leejay Pollacchi reached on a two-out bunt single and then advanced to third on an Erik Watkins double to left center.  Brian Lowry plated Pollacchi with an RBI single up the middle to make it 5-1.

The Spartans put three unearned runs on the board in the eighth with two outs on three Skidmore errors.
Castleton stole eight bases in the contest.  Zak Mayo was 2-2 with two RBI for the Spartans, while Macyn Clifford was 2-4 with two runs.

Skidmore split its eight hits among eight players.  Pollacchi played in his school record 47^th game of the season, the only Thoroughbred to appear in all 47 of his team's games.

Isaac Forman (6-4) was tagged with the loss. He threw five innings, allowing five runs on five hits with three walks, three ks and three hit batters.  Nick Petrella was effective in relief, allowing no earned runs in four innings, striking out four and walking none.

Castleton starter Dakota Aker (6-3) threw 139 pitches in eight innings of work for the win.