FORT MYERS, Fla. – First year Grayden Harris tossed a four-hit shutout in game one and senior Jackson Hornung unleashed a grand slam in game two for the Skidmore College baseball team in a doubleheader sweep (5-0, 6-2) of Western Connecticut State on Wednesday.
 
Skidmore is 6-2 on the year and 5-0 in Florida. WestConn falls to 2-10.
 
GAME 1 – Skidmore 5, WestConn 0 (7 inn.)

• Harris struck out eight batters, with at least one in each inning, and threw 74 percent percent of his 94 pitches for strikes to go the distance and earn his first collegiate win. He retired the first 11 batters he faced and allowed just two batters to reach base until the Wolves singled twice in the seventh. He bared down, getting a punch out before ending it by inducing a foul out.
• Trey Bourque doubled twice. Both scored runs. He hit an RBI double down the left field line in the fifth inning to give Skidmore a 2-0 lead. He went the same direction in the sixth to bring in two and make it 5-0.
• The Thoroughbreds scored in the first inning when Max Mello pushed a single through the left side to score leadoff hitter Danny Melillo, who hit an infield single and later moved to third. Skidmore tried to steal another run on the play, but Bourque was gunned down at home after a bobble in the outfield.
• Before Bourque's second double in the sixth, Skidmore scored its third run on a dropped third strike with the bases loaded.

 
GAME 2 - Skidmore 6, WestConn 4 (7 inn.)

• Hornung's second no-doubt homer of the week was hit against the wind to dead left field after the Thoroughbreds loaded the bases with two outs in the top of the fourth inning. Hornung finished the game 4-for-4 with five RBI, two runs, and two stolen bases. He also swiped a bag in game one, finishing the day with three.
• For the fourth consecutive game, Skidmore scored in the first inning. Hornung singled, stole second, and came around on a Mello single.
• WestConn took the lead with two runs in the bottom of the second. The Wolves loaded the bases with nobody out on two singles and a walk. Skidmore starter Ethan Barnett retired three batters in a row, with a run-scoring wild pitch in between, to limit the damage to just two.
• Barnett got the win for the Thoroughbreds. He went four innings and allowed just the two runs on two hits with a walk. He struck out four WestConn hitters.
• In the Skidmore fourth, Shaw Pedemonti reached in an infield error with one out and moved to third on an Anthony Petersen single. Anthony Mollica walked to set up the bases-loaded spot for Hornung, who deposited the ball well beyond the wall in left.
• Skidmore added a single run in the sixth. Petersen got hit by a pitch and slid to second on a Nate Vandersea sacrifice bunt. Petersen scored two batters later on a Horning single to left.
• WestConn brought the tying run to the plate in the bottom of the seventh. The first two hitters singled and the third was plunked to load the bases with no outs. Christian Giresi got each of the next three batters out to close it despite a pair of runs coming across to score.

 
NEXT UP: Skidmore will play Defiance College in a single nine-inning game on Thursday at 9 a.m.