SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The Skidmore College softball team swept a vital league doubleheader at home against Clarkson (5-3, 8-5) on Friday.
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Lindsey Raimondi pitched a complete game in game one and picked up the save in game two.
Melissa Mathias finished the day having scored five times and driving in two.
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GAME ONE
- Meghan Robertson finished 3-for-4 with three RBI.
- Melissa Mathias scored three of Skidmore's five runs. She was 1-for-3.
- Megan White scored the other two runs and was also 1-for-3 with a walk.
- After a White double to leadoff the first, Anderson hit a single to left center to score the run.
- The Thoroughbreds plated a second run in the second when Anderson was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded.
- Robertson got the first of her consecutive RBI singles in the fourth to make it 3-1.
- After Clarkson got one back in the sixth, Robertson singled in two in the bottom half to bump Skidmore's lead to five.
- Clarkson completed the scoring with two in the seventh.
- Raimondi picked up her 10th win of the season. She surrendered three runs on eight hits with just one walk allowed. She struck out three.
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GAME TWO
- Six different players crossed the plate for the Thoroughbreds.
- Mathias scored two more times. She was 2-for-3 with two RBI.
- Jessica Nachamie also crossed the plate twice.
- Skidmore (22-12, 5-7 Liberty) put up five runs in the bottom of the third inning.
- White smashed a two-run triple to center field and scored on an overthrow of third, giving the Thoroughbreds a 3-0 advantage.
- After Anderson walked, Kaitlyn Judd ripped an RBI double to the gap in right and scored three batters later on a Genesis Delgado two-out single.
- Clarkson (14-16, 5-9 Liberty) responded with two in the fourth on a two-run home run off the bat of Riley Page.
- Anderson singled in Mathias from second in the bottom of the fourth to make it 6-2.
- Mathias brought in two more for the Thoroughbreds in the fifth on a double to right center.
- The Golden Knights closed the gap to three in the sixth, but Raimondi entered and got out of trouble before working a clean seventh to pick up her second save of the spring.
- Hannah Davis improved to 11-3 in the circle for Skidmore. She allowed four runs on five hits over 5.1 innings of work. She did not walk a batter, hit two, and struck out four.
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NEXT UP:
- Skidmore will close the regular season tomorrow – Saturday, April 30 – against RIT. The Thoroughbreds can lock up the fourth and final spot in the Liberty League Tournament with one win.