SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The Skidmore College baseball team dropped both games of a Liberty League doubleheader to Union, in the home finale on Saturday at Castle Diamond. Union won 9-4 and 6-5.
 
Skidmore drops to 19-14 overall and 9-11 in Liberty League contests. Union improves to 16-20 and 12-10.
 
Before the contest, Skidmore honored its six-man senior class: catcher Pat Geiger, pitchers Jacob Berish, Spencer Anderson, Jack Walter, and Christian Reenstierna, and infielder/pitcher Will Potter. Union pulls ahead in the race for the final Liberty League postseason spot. The teams will meet for a regular-season ending doubleheader on Sunday, beginning at noon at Union's Shuttleworth Park.
 
 
GAME ONE
 
Skidmore starter Jay Gamboa (6-3) pitched out of trouble in the first two innings, before Union pulled ahead with a nine-run third inning, capped by a three-run, Sean Cullen homer. Union starter Colin Nye (4-2) kept the Thoroughbreds at bay until the seventh. Skidmore, needing a spark, got a pitch-hit single from Justin Bottcher and a RBI double from Christian Italiano. Will Potter's second hit was an RBI single to the left side and Matt Chipkin brought home two more with an RBI double to the fence in center field. Skidmore loaded the bases but couldn't get the big hit past Union reliever Blake Newcomer.
 
Chipkin tallied two of Skidmore's eight hits in game one. On the mound, Matt McQuaid and Anderson combined for a scoreless 4 1/3 innings of relief work. Union tallied 10 hits, led by Cullen's 3-for-4 effort.
 
GAME TWO
 
Union once again pulled ahead, scoring runs in the second, third, sixth, and eighth innings to take a 6-0 lead. With its season in the balance, Skidmore fought back in the bottom of the eighth inning. After Ryan Strickland reached on an error, Will Snyder and Justin LaRose reached base, before Geiger brought Strickland home with an RBI single through the left side. Potter was hit with the bases loaded to bring in another run, and Chipkin recorded a one-out sacrifice fly to cut the deficit in half, 6-3.
 
After Jake Hardy was hit to load the bases, Andrew Knight made the most of his game-two start, hitting a two-RBI single to cut the deficit to 6-5. In the ninth, pinch-hitter Briston Maynard reached on a Dutchmen error, and the Thoroughbreds had a runner in scoring position. Union reliever Steve Acquario came in with one out in the ninth, forcing Geiger and Potter to fly out to end the threat.
 
Seven Thoroughbreds tallied a hit in game two. Spencer Meyer (2-1) took the loss, allowing five earned over 5.1 innings. Anderson, Walter, Tim Allen, and Reenstierna combined to allow just one earned over 3.2 innings of relief. Dominic Nardone (3-2) pitched seven innings, allowing three earned in the win. Acquario picked up his first save of the season. Three Dutchmen tallied three hits in game two.