ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Two very different games ended with the same result, two victories, for the University of Rochester baseball team over Skidmore College on Saturday afternoon at Towers Field.
 
Game one was a pitchers duel, ending 6-0, with no runs being scored through the first six innings before the Yellowjackets (10-7, 5-1 Liberty League) erupted in the final inning.  The nightcap was a slugfest, going 15-11 in Rochester's favor, helping UR to a 3-1 conference weekend record against the Thoroughbreds (7-9, 2-6 Liberty League).

GAME 1 
The opener saw Skidmore's Will Potter and UR's  Garrett Renslow go toe-to-toe on the mound.  Renslow tossed his first career shutout, logging all seven innings while surrendering just six hits and no walks with six strikeouts.  Potter went six plus innings, allowed two runs on four hits, but issued five walks in picking up the loss.
  
The game remained scoreless until the 7th when Rochester sent 10 men to the plate, scoring six times to break the game open. 

Skidmore's William Snyder had a 2-3 game with a double.

GAME 2
The bats broke out for both squads, with the teams combining for 26 runs and 31 hits, aided by a generously blowing outward wind at Towers Field.  Rochester scored in seven of nine innings, while the Thoroughbreds put up three or more runs on three different occasions.
 
Skidmore jumped out to the early lead after the first inning, scoring three times off UR. Pat Geiger doubled to left scoring a run, Potter tripled to center for another run and then scampered home on a wild pitch to make it a quick 3-0 lead.
 
Rochester was tied it in the third inning and scored five runs the fifth inning allowing UR to break open the scoring, all coming with two outs. 
 
Skidmore responded with three runs of its own in the bottom of the fifth inning, with Geiger lining an RBI double to center, Potter recording an RBI groundout and Sam Browning doubling in another run to make the score 9-6.
 
The Yellowjackets extended the lead back to six runs after scoring once in the sixth and twice in the seventh, but the Thoroughbreds again clawed back, scoring four times on three extra base hits in the seventh inning as well to make it a two run game at 12-10.  Geiger and Browning homered while Matt Chipkin added an RBI double.
 
UR and Skidmore traded runs in the eighth inning.

Skidmore's lineup was bolstered by Geiger who went 4-5 with two doubles, a homer and 5 RBI.  Potter finished 3-5 with a triple and two RBI and Browning was 2-5 with two extra base hits and two batted in. 

The Thoroughbreds next plays at home against Plattsburgh on Thursday.