Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.-- The Skidmore College softball team played long ball in an 11-7 Liberty League win over the Rochester Institute of Technology, in the first of two Sunday at Wagner Park. The Tigers came back to win the second game 9-1.
 
The Thoroughbreds are 9-23 overall and 1-7 in league play. RIT is 7-15 and 2-4.
 
In the first game, Skidmore scored 11 runs on 10 hits, six of those extra base hits. Julia Schwartz, Katie Sorochka, and Mackenzie Whiting all homered for the Thoroughbreds.
 
Skidmore scored a pair of unearned runs in the second to grab a 2-0 lead. The Tigers responded with three of their own in the third, keyed by a two-run two-out triple by Sarah Wolcott.
 
The Thoroughbreds put up three in the fourth to go up 5-3. Whiting had a two-run double and then scored on an RBI double by Sam Skott.
 
Wolcott had drove in a run with a sac fly for RIT in the fifth to get it back to 5-4.  Whiting continued her torrid hitting with a two-run homer in the bottom of the fifth to push the lead to 7-4. 
 
Brittany Griffin kept RIT in it with a two-run home run of her own in the sixth.  Skidmore responded again with four in its half of the sixth on a three-run homer by Schwartz and a solo shot by Schwartz to make it 11-6.
 
Wolcott closed out her game with a solo home run in the RIT half of the seventh for the 11-7 final.
 
Whiting finished 3-3 with two runs and five RBI and a walk.  Sorochka got the complete game win. She allowed seven runs on 11 hits with one walk and four strikeouts.
 
Sarah Colimus took the loss, she allowed 11 runs (eight earned) on 10 hits over 5.2 innings.
 
In the second game, RIT got off to a quick start when Wolcott cleared the bases with a three-run first-pitch double.   Skidmore  scored in the bottom of the first on a bases loaded walk to Sorochka.
 
The Tigers scored four more in the fourth, keyed by a two-run triple down the right field line by pitcher Alissa Dixon. RIT sealed the game with a pair of unearned runs in the sixth for the 9-1 final.
 
Schwartz and Whiting had the lone hits for Skidmore.  Schwartz had the loss. She allowed seven runs (six earned) over 3.2 innings, walking four. Katie Sorochka pitched 2.1 in relief, allowing a pair of unearned runs on one hit.
 
Alissa Dixon had the win for RIT. She allowed one unearned run on two hits, with seven walks and seven strikeouts.
 
Skidmore will host St. Lawrence on April 20 at 1 p.m.