MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – The Skidmore College softball team batted around twice in the sixth inning on Wednesday against Saint Joseph's (CT) to score 17 runs on 14 hits. The Thoroughbreds won the game, 21-1, in six innings. In the afternoon game, Skidmore lost to SUNY Poly in six innings, 11-1.
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GAME 1 – Skidmore 21, St. Joseph's (CT) 1
- The game was tight, 2-1, until Skidmore plated two in the fifth and 17 in the sixth.
- Erin Gibbons hit a two-run home run in the inning and Chloe McGonagle had three separate run-scoring base knocks and scored twice. She finished the inning with four total RBI. Other RBI hits came from Madison Bonham, Melissa Mathias (twice), Carolina Garcia, Meghan Robertson. Gibbons also came through again on her second trip to the plate in the inning with an RBI single. Â
- Mathias and McGonagle finished the game with four RBI each. Both had three hits and scored twice.
- Robertson scored four runs and finished 4-for-5 at the plate. She gave the Thoroughbreds the lead in the top of the first inning with a one-out homer. Robertson finished a double shy of the cycle.
- Eight different players scored at least two runs for Skidmore.
- Of Skidmore's 18 hits, eight of them went for extra bases: five doubles, one triple, two home runs.
- Lindsey Raimondi allowed just one unearned run on two hits in the circle for Skidmore. A pair of infield errors in the fourth gave Saint Joseph it's runs.
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GAME 2 – SUNY Poly 11, Skidmore 1
- SUNY Poly scored three runs each in the first and second before closing it out with two more in the fourth inning and three in the fifth to put the Wildcats over the run-rule threshold.
- Mathias led off the bottom of the first with an infield single before stealing second base and scoring on a McGonagle double.
- Skidmore managed just one more hit, a Mathias single in the third, the rest of the way.
- Tirnity Critelli struck out eight hitters over five innings for SUNY Poly in the win.
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NEXT UP: Skidmore will close its trip on Thursday with games versus Keystone College at 1 p.m. and Mississippi University for Women at 3 p.m.
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