MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – In a pair of games significantly delayed as a result of recent weather and field conditions, the Skidmore College softball team fell in a pair of contests in day two of its week in Myrtle Beach. The Thoroughbreds lost to Susquehanna University 12-7 and Spalding University 3-1 on Monday.
 
GAME ONE

• Susquehanna took control early on with four runs in the top of the first inning on three hits and a walk.
• Skidmore cut into the lead with one run in the bottom half of the first on an Erin Gibbons infield single.
• Susquehanna played small ball in the second to add another.
• The Thoroughbreds made it a two-run game, 5-3, with a pair of runs in the third. Melissa Mathias singled to lead off and scored all the way from first on a throwing error one batter later.
• The teams traded two-spots in the fourth inning. Mathias drove in Skidmore's second run in the bottom half of the inning on a single through the box.
• The Susquehanna offense added three in he fifth and two in t he seventh to keep it out of range.
• Mathias finished the game 3-for-5 with an RBI and two runs. Grace O'Connell was 3-for-4 with an RBI and a run.
• Carolina Garcia had two hits in three trips and scored twice. She hit a one-out single in the seventh.

 
GAME 2

• In a reversal of Skidmore's first two game, the second game on Monday's slate was a pitchers' duel.
• Meghan Robertson for Skidmore and Erica McMann for Spalding went pitch-for-pitch in the briskly played contest.
• Spalding broke the scoreboard in the bottom of the second inning. With two outs and a runner at second, Dean Wilson doubled down the line in left to give the Golden Eagles a 1-0 lead. She scored two batters later on a Karlee Terra single through the middle.
• The Thoroughbreds cut the deficit in half in the fourth. Robertson led off with a double and scored when Chloe McGonagle hit a single to center field. McGonagle was later gunned down as the tying run on a borderline play at the plate. Bonham was also tagged out sliding into second base to eliminate the threat.
• Spalding plated an unearned run in the sixth to complete the scoring.
• Erica McCann went the distance for Spalding for the win. She allowed one run and four hits with four strikeouts and no walks.
• Robertson also turned in a strong outing for Skidmore in the circle. She allowed three runs, two earned, over 6.0 innings with two strikeouts and no walks.
• After the double play to end Skidmore's chance in the fourth, McCann retied the final nine batters in a row .