WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – The Skidmore College baseball team tallied 12 hits but stranded 12, as the Thoroughbreds fell in non-league action to host Williams 9-5 at Bobby Coombs Field Tuesday afternoon.
The Thoroughbreds fall to 9-14 overall, while the Ephs improve to 11-7.
Patrick Geiger,
Justin LaRose,
Mike Fogarty, and
Nick Fronte all drove in runs for the Thoroughbreds.
Ryan Strickland went 3-for-4 at the plate, adding a walk and scoring a run. Geiger, LaRose, and Fogarty each tallied two hits.
Spencer Meyer got the start on the mound, allowing a pair of earned runs in three innings pitched, striking out two. Joe Morrisey,
Jonathan Kaiser, and
Jay Gamboa combined to keep the Ephs scoreless in the final two innings.
Doug Schaeffer drove in three runs to lead Williams, who also tallied 12 hits. Jack Cloud went 4-for-5, driving in a run, and Adam Regensburg drove in a pair with his only hit. Kyle Dean picked up the victory, allowing one run on three hits in three innings, striking out three.
Skidmore struck first, pouncing on a Williams miscue in the top of the first. After consecutive hits by Geiger and Brown, a wild pitch scored Geiger from third base for the opening run. In the bottom of the frame, Williams struck back with two unearned runs on Skidmore errors.
Williams added two more in the bottom of the third inning, first on an RBI triple by Hatheway, then scoring on a ground out by the next batter.
Skidmore inched closer in the top of the fifth.
Justin Bottcher drew a one-out walk, then
Justin LaRose got on with a single to right center. After stealing a base to put runners on second and third, Geiger drove in a run on the groundout to third base, making it 5-2. Williams responded with a three-run fifth, increasing the lead to 8-2. Skidmore added another run in the next frame, with
Nick Fronte driving in one on the groundout. Williams answered with a sac fly in the bottom of the sixth, taking the 9-3 lead. The Thoroughbreds would get two more runs in the contest: in the top of the seventh, on a Fogarty two-out, RBI single that scored LaRose and in the top eighth, when LaRose knocked in Fronte on a one-out sac fly.
The Thoroughbreds will return to Liberty League play this weekend, taking on league-leading RIT for a four-game weekend series. Both Saturday and Sunday's doubleheaders will begin at noon.
