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Brendan O'Neill
Matt Milless
Brendan O'Neill hit the go-ahead homer in the eighth inning.
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Winner Skidmore SKIDMORE 16-2-1, 5-1 Liberty
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Rensselaer RPIB 10-11, 2-5 Liberty
Winner
Skidmore SKIDMORE
16-2-1, 5-1 Liberty
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Final
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Rensselaer RPIB
10-11, 2-5 Liberty
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Skidmore SKIDMORE 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 3 7 1
Rensselaer RPIB 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 2

W: Clark, Jack (5-0) L: Chris Grome (3-1) S: Giresi, Christian (2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

O’Neill’s late homer lifts Thoroughbreds over RPI

TROY, N.Y. – Brendan O'Neill hit a two-run home run in the top of the eighth as the Skidmore College baseball team upended Rensselaer, 3-2, on the road on Saturday.
 
  • After Max Mello doubled to lead off the inning, O'Neill - a junior - launched the first home run of his career out to right-center field to flip RPI's 2-1 lead.  
  • Skidmore was held without a run until the seventh, when Jackson Hornung doubled in Jaden Torrado from second with two outs.
  • Christian Giresi picked up a six-out save to preserve the win for Skidmore starter Jack Clark. Clark, now 5-0 on the year, surrendered four hits and four walks over 7.0 innings of two-run ball. He struck out three and hit a pair of batters.
  • Giresi stranded the tying run at third in the eighth and again at second, with the winning run on first, in the ninth to earn his second save of the spring.
  • Giresi made a successful stab at the hard-hit grounder right up the chute to end it with the trying run stranded in scoring position.
  • RPI scored both of its runs in the bottom of the fourth off Clark. Martin Marintchev doubled to lead off the frame and scored on Hudson Livesey single down the line in left. After a sacrifice bunt later moved Livesey to third, he scored on a George Rainer sacrifice fly.
  • Hornung, Mello, and O'Neill each had two hits for the Thoroughbreds. Hornung doubled twice while O'Neill swiped a bag – his 11th of the campaign.
  • The Engineer nine-hole hitter, Joey Saia, was the only RPI player to post a multi-hit game. He was 2-for-4.
  • Marintchev's fourth-inning double was RPI's only extra-base hit.
  • RPI starter Chris Grome scattered eight hits over 7.1 innings. He cruised through six before Skidmore did its damage in the seventh and eighth. Grome struck out eight Skidmore hitters and walked three.
  • Skidmore improves to 16-2-1 overall and 5-1 in the Liberty League (4-0 LL East). RPI is 10-11, 2-5, and 2-2. 
 
NEXT UP:
  • Skidmore is scheduled to host RPI for a pair tomorrow – Sunday, April 10 – at the Castle Diamond. First pitch of game one is slated for 12 p.m.
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