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Trey Bourque
Matt Milless
Trey Bourque smashed a go-ahead homer late in game two.
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Rensselaer RPIB 10-12, 2-6 Liberty
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Winner Skidmore SKIDMORE 17-2-1, 6-1 Liberty
Rensselaer RPIB
10-12, 2-6 Liberty
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Final
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Skidmore SKIDMORE
17-2-1, 6-1 Liberty
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Rensselaer RPIB 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 7 2
Skidmore SKIDMORE 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 3 10 2

W: Martin, Peter (2-0) L: Ben Koomey (2-1)

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Rensselaer RPIB 10-13, 2-6 Liberty
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Winner Skidmore SKIDMORE 18-2-1, 7-1 Liberty
Rensselaer RPIB
10-13, 2-6 Liberty
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Final
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Skidmore SKIDMORE
18-2-1, 7-1 Liberty
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Rensselaer RPIB 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 1 0 6 9 4
Skidmore SKIDMORE 3 0 0 2 0 0 1 2 X 8 6 2

W: Giresi, Christian (3-1) L: Thomas Neuman (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Late heroics on Skidmore’s side again to complete sweep of RPI

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Max Mello ended game one with a walkoff double and Trey Bourque hit a go-ahead two-run home run in the eighth inning of game two to complete a three-game weekend sweep for the Skidmore College baseball team over Rensselaer on Sunday.
 
Skidmore has a hefty four-game lead over the field in the Liberty League East Division. The Thoroughbreds are 18-2-1 overall, 7-1 in the conference, and 6-0 in the division. Meanwhile, the Engineers fall to 10-13, 2-7, and 2-4.
 
GAME ONE
  • With the winning run on second base and one out, Mello took a 2-1 pitch and split the gap in left to score Danny Melillo and win it for the Thoroughbreds.
  • The contest, a seven-inning affair, had been scoreless since the third inning.
  • Hudson Livesey doubled to lead off the second inning for RPI and scored two batters later on a Ayush Krishnappa ground ball single through the middle.
  • Skidmore answered with two in the second to take the lead. Jaden Torrado got the two-out rally started with a double inside the line in left. He scored on a William Snyder single to left. Then, a fly ball fell between the center and right fielders for Anthony Mollica, resulting in an RBI double.
  • RPI got the run back immediately. Martin Marintchev led off the third inning with a no-doubt home run over the left field fence. Later in the inning, a Skidmore relay gunned down the go-ahead runner at home trying to tag on a fly ball to center.
  • RPI put its leadoff hitter on in the seventh, but Skidmore got out of it thanks to a well-executed infield double play. Joey Saia tried to take third base on a grounder, but was tagged out on the relay from Brendan O'Neill at third to Sean Lang at first and back Snyder, the shortstop, who was covering the bag at third.
  • Ameer Hasan turned in a start of 6.0 innings, two runs, and six hits for Skidmore. He walked and struck out three hitters. Peter Martin came in to start the seventh and was credited with the win.
 
GAME TWO
  • In the Skidmore eighth, Jackson Hornung worked a one-out walk before Bourque took a full-count pitch just inside the left field foul pole for the two-run jack and the lead.
  • RPI loaded the bases with no outs in the top half of the eighth, but settled for one to tie it up at six on a Livesey RBI ground out.
  • Bourque got it started for the Thoroughbreds with a two-run single in the first to highlight a three-spot for Skidmore.
  • RPI plated five of its six runs in the third. The visitors took advantage of three walks including two back-to-back free passes to start the inning and another later with the bases loaded. Aidan Hicks delivered a two-out, two-run single in the inning, and Livesey brought in one with a bases-loaded single.
  • Skidmore knotted things up at five in the fourth inning with the help of consecutive overthrows of first base by the Engineer infield.
  • The Thoroughbreds briefly led after the seventh, also with the help of a first-base overthrow followed by a wild pitch.
  • Justin Posnik battled through the third inning to give Skidmore 5.0 innings on the hill. He scattered seven hits, walked three, and struck out one.
  • Christian Giresi got all six hitters he saw out to earn the win. He came on in the eighth with the bases loaded and nobody out. The tying run scored on the ground out, but he struck out a pair to wiggle out of further trouble. RPI went down 1-2-3 in the ninth.
 
NEXT UP:
  • Skidmore will travel to Williams on Wednesday, April 13 before a three-game weekend series with Vassar.
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