SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.—Dani DeGregory and Cassie Fishkin homered to lead the Skidmore College softball team to a 6-4 win in the second game of a Liberty League doubleheader Sunday afternoon at Wagner Park. The Golden Knights won the first game 9-6.
 
The Thoroughbreds remain in the thick of the playoff hunt with a 15-21 overall and 5-5 league record. Skidmore is in third place with a doubleheader left against Rensselaer next Saturday at Wagner Park. Clarkson and RIT sit one game back at 4-6. St. Lawrence is 3-5 with four games to play.
 
In the first game, Clarkson scored two in the first with four straight two-out singles. Skidmore got one back in the bottom of the first when Lauren Fortunato doubled and scored on an RBI single from Cassie Fishkin.
 
The Golden Knights scored two more with two outs the second to go up 4-2. The Thoroughbreds responded with four in their half of the second. Karly Fishkin keyed the inning when she stroked a two-strike, two-out, double to drive in two runs.
 
Clarkson regained the lead, 7-5 with three unearned runs in the third. Skidmore scored one in the fifth, but the Golden Knights added pair of insurance runs in the seventh for the 9-6 win.
 
Fortunato and Jill Strileckis were 2-4. Amanda Carilli (11-13) took the loss, allowing five earned runs on 13 hits.
 
Summer Lancette went 3-5 with two runs and two RBI for Clarkson. Jamie Bridge (9-5) got the win and Maggie Stark had a two inning save.
 
 
In the second game, DeGregory smashed her first home run of the season to put Skidmore up 1-0.  The Thoroughbreds got one in the second on a Karly Fishkin sac fly and then two in the third, the first coming on a deep leadoff home run by Cassie Fishkin.
 
Clarkson scored three in the fourth to pull to within one 4-3. Skidmore came back with one in the bottom of the fourth when DeGregory singled and later scored on a Cassie Fishkin sac fly to make it 5-3.
 
Ali Schwenzfeier homered in the fifth for Clarkson to cut it to 5-4. The Thoroughbreds scored an insurance run in the sixth when Fortunato singled, stole second and scored on a Cassie Fishkin RBI single.
 
Fortunato made the defensive play of the day, maybe the season, in the seventh, when she went reached over the centerfield fence to rob Lancette of a home run.
 
DeGregory finished 3-4 with two runs and an RBI, Cassie Fishkin was 2-3 with three RBI and Kristina Foley and Emily Mangan had two hits each.
 
Carilli (12-13) got the win, allowing four hits on four runs with no walks and a strikeout.