AMSTERDAM, N.Y.—Playing for the first time in more than a month, the Skidmore College baseball team lost to Union College 4-3 (11 innings) and 14-7 in the team's Liberty League opener.
 
The Thoroughbreds are 1-4 and 0-2, while the Dutchmen are 6-4 and 4-2.
 
GAME 1
 
The Dutchmen won the marathon with a walk-off full count home run in the bottom of the 11^th.
 
Joseph Pastore put Skidmore up 2-0 with his first home run of the season. Union tied it with solo home runs in the third and fourth. Pastore made it 3-2 with an RBI single in the seventh, but the Dutchmen tied it in their half of the inning to send the game to extra innings.
 
Pastore finished 2-5 with three RBI. Brendan O'Neill was 2-5. Ethan Caiazza tossed three innings of scoreless relief with three strikeouts.
 
GAME 2
 
Down 5-1, Skidmore tied it 5-5 in the third on Max Mello grand slam. The Dutchmen responded with five runs in the bottom of the inning and another four in the fifth for the 14-7 win.
 
O'Neill was 2-3 and Sam Browning went 2-4 with an RBI double. Briston Maynard had a pinch-hit RBI double in the seventh.
 
Skidmore is at RPI for two on April 28 at 2 p.m.