MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – The Skidmore College baseball team scored 11 runs in the final three innings but was unable to overcome Middlebury's lead in a 16-14 road loss on Tuesday.
 

• Skidmore (22-8-1) scored five runs in both the seventh and ninth innings and a single tally in the eighth.
• Jackson Hornung hit his seventh home run of the spring and had three RBI.
• Zachary Leiderman also went deep, his first career homer.
• Hornung, Max Mello, Nathan Wagner, Danny Melillo, and Jaden Torrado all had two hits.
• Torrado cleared the bases with a three-run double in the seventh.
• Mello and Melillo both drove in two runs.
• Brendan O'Neill and Anthony Mollica each crossed the plate three times.
• Middlebury (19-8) had seven extra-base hits, led by Kyle McCausland and Luke Flemming, who each hit a double and a triple.
• There was no scoring until the third, when Skidmore took the lead with a pair of unearned runs.
• Middlebury tied it with two in the bottom half of the third and took the lead with the help of a throwing error in the fourth.
• A Melillo infield single in the fifth tied it at four, but Middlebury plated two in the bottom half of the fifth and six in the sixth.
• The Panthers added on, and deflated the Thoroughbred comeback bid, with a three-spot in the seventh and two more in the eighth.
• Skidmore put the tying runs in scoring position in the ninth with two outs before George Goldstein got a strikeout for Middlebury to pick up the save.

 
NEXT UP:

• The Thoroughbreds will host Sage tomorrow – Wednesday, April 27 – at 4 p.m. at the Castle Diamond.