Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- Mackenzie Whiting delivered a walk-off grand slam to lift the Skidmore College softball team over St. Lawrence University, 6-4, in game one of its Liberty League doubleheader, Friday afternoon at Wagner Park.  The Saints game back with an 11-8 win in the second game.
 
The Thoroughbreds are 10-14 overall and 4-4 in Liberty League play, while SLU is 8-14 and 1-5.
 
In the first game, down 4-2 in the bottom of the seventh, the Thoroughbreds first three batters of the inning reached on singles to set up Whiting's heroics. Sam Skott started the inning with a single to left field, Lauren Fortunato followed with a single and Abby Shea reached first, laying down a perfect bunt.  Whiting then took a 1-2 pitch deep for the win.
 
The Saints jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first on an RBI double from Rebecca Allen followed by an RBI single by Hannah Sears. Allen extended the St. Lawrence lead to 4-0 in the top of the fifth, driving in two with her second double of the game.
 
Skidmore responded in the bottom half of the inning as Fortunato helped her own cause, belting a two-run home run to left field to cut the deficit to 4-2. Fortunato shut down the Saints offense, pitching a scoreless sixth and seventh en route to her third win and her fifth complete game of the season. She also finished 2-for-4 at the plate with two RBI.  Lauren Gorstein was 3-3.
 
Allen led the St. Lawrence offense, going 2-for-4 with three RBI and a run scored and Natasha Bell finished 2-for-4 with a run scored. Kyle Plimpton took the loss on the mound, allowing six runs on nine hits, striking out a season-high 15 in seven innings of work.
 
In the second game, Skidmore got to Plimpton early with three runs in the third. Shea had an RBI double, followed by a two-run double from Gorstein.
 
The Saints responded with three of their own in the top of the fourth.  Relief pitcher Hanna Sears had a two-run home run to help her cause and tie the game 3-3.
 
Not to be out done, Skidmore plated four runs on three hits in the bottom of the fourth for a 7-3 lead. All the runs came with two outs.  With runners on first and second, Lauren Fortunato  patiently earned an 11-pitch walk to load the bases and extend the inning. Shea followed up with a two-run single and Gorstein rang up her second two-run double of the game.
 
St. Lawrence battled back to tie it with three runs in the fifth and another in the sixth to make it a 7-7 game.
 
The Saints the opened it up with four runs in the seventh for an 11-7 lead. Leslie Stratton had a three-run two-out double.
 
Skidmore threatened another seventh inning comeback, opening the inning with a Gorstein single, a base hit by Whiting and a Fishkin walk.  Plimpton reentered the game and struck the next two batters out, before hitting Katie Amo to make it 11-8.  She got a pop up to end the game and earn the save.
 
Gorstein was 3-4 with three RBI and Shea was 2-4 with three RBI and two runs. Fishkin took the loss.
 
Allen was 4-4 with two doubles and an RBI, while Aisha O'Connor went 3-5 with an RBI.  Sears earned the win in relief.
 
Skidmore will host Williams College in a pair on April 22 at 4 p.m.