ROCHESTER, N.Y.—The Skidmore College baseball team dropped a pair of Liberty League games at the University of Rochester Sunday to complete the 2017 season.
 
Skidmore drops to 10-24 and 4-16, while the Yellowjackets finishe 12-18 and 9-11.

GAME ONE: In the opener, the Yellowjackets got off to a quick start, with Tyler Schmidt clubbing an inside the park 2-run homer to right center in the bottom of the first inning.  His home run scored teammate Pete Carrier who reached via walk.

Down 5-0, Skidmore's pitching staff would settle down the rest of the way as starter Spencer Anderson and reliever Jacob Berish would hold UR to just one hit over the remaining five innings. Meanwhile, the Thoroughbreds began to chip away at the Yellowjacket lead against starter John Ghyzel.

In the fourth, Skidmore got on the board behind an RBI infield single by Pat Geiger.  Geiger then delivered a 2-run single in the sixth inning.  Shawn Klier then added an RBI single, cutting the Yellowjacket lead to just one at 5-4 heading to the final inning.
Kevin Ho then entered the game for Rochester and worked around a 2-out single to earn his second save of the year.  

Skidmore's Geiger was 3-3 with 3 RBI while Mat Marino was 1-3 and scored twice.  On the mound, Anderson took the loss, going 4 innings while allowing 4 hits, 5 runs and 4 walks.  Berish tossed two scoreless innings out of the bullpen.

GAME TWO:
Rochester's bats exploded in game two, scoring in six of the eight innings in which the team batted, twice batting around the lineup in an inning.

Skidmore tied the game in the fourth on Geiger's fourth hit of the day, a single to right, scoring Josh Brown.
After that, the floodgates opened, with Rochester scoring 11 runs over the next two innings, sending at least nine men to the plate in both frames. 

Skidmore added its second run of the game on an RBI groundout from Hayden Smith in the seventh inning.
Rochester then finished off the game, scoring three more runs in the bottom of the seventh and added two in the eighth to reach the 18-2 final margin.
 
Skidmore used five pitchers in the game, with Andrew Aikins picking up the loss in relief of starter Ben Murphy.