WINTER HAVEN, Fla.—The Skidmore College softball team knocked off #12 Kean University 7-1 and lost 8-0 to SUNY Cortland in action on Tuesday.
The Thoroughbreds are 2-4 with four games to play in their spring trip.
Against Kean,
Cassie Fishkin allowed only one run on nine hits, with no walks over six innings.
Amanda Carilli pitched two innings of scoreless relief.
Skidmore made the most of its chances, scoring in every inning except the first. The Thoroughbreds got on the board in the second inning when
Mackenzie Whiting singled and later scored on Fishkin sacrifice fly.
Lauren Fortunato drilled a two-out, two-strike single to right, scoring
Sam Skott in the third inning to give Skidmore a 2-0 lead.
The Thoroughbreds added single runs in the fourth, fifth to extend the lead to 4-0. Kean scored its lone run in the bottom of the fifth.
Skidmore scored an unearned run in the sixth when
Lauren Gorstein reached on an error and later scored on a wild pitch. The Thoroughbreds picked-up a pair of insurance runs in the seventh. Skott opened the inning with a double down the line, moved to third on a wild pitch, and scored when Fortunato reached on an infield error. Fortunato eventually scored the seventh run on a Whiting sacrifice fly.
Skott finished 2-2 with two runs and an RBI. Gorstein was 0-1 with a walk, two runs, and a sacrifice hit.
"I am so proud of the way our team competed against Kean this morning," said Skidmore coach
Hannah Shalett. "We got outstanding pitching performances from both of our pitchers to go along with solid defense, and an offense that put pressure on the defense in a lot of different ways. These first six games in Florida have really shown us what our team is capable of when we put together a complete game. We are looking forward to our off day Wednesday before finishing the week off with four more games against quality opponents."
In the second game, Cortland scored eight runs on 13 hits and limited the Thoroughbreds to three hits.
Dani DeGregory was 1-2 and
Emily Mangan was 1-1.
Skidmore continues its Florida trip on March 19 against St. Norbert and Springfield.
