AMSTERDAM, N.Y. – The Skidmore College baseball team took two out of three from Union over the weekend with a Sunday split at Shuttleworth Park. Skidmore was victorious in the first game of the doubleheader, 7-3, before dropping the nightcap 11-8.
 

• Skidmore will be the one seed from the East in the upcoming Crossover Series weekend. The Thoroughbreds will host the No. 4 seed from the West, Clarkson, in a best-of-three series next weekend. The winner advances to the four-team double elimination tournament (May 11-13) at a location to be determined.
• The Thoroughbreds enter the crossover series with a 22-13 record after finishing 9-3 in the Liberty League East. The Thoroughbreds are 11-5 overall against Liberty League opponents. Union is 14-20 and 3-9 in the division.

 
GAME 1 – Skidmore 7, Union 3

• Jaden Torrado broke a 3-3 tie in the bottom of the fifth (Skidmore played as home team in game one) with a two-out grand slam over the tall fence in left field. It was the junior's second homer of the year and gave the Thoroughbreds all they needed to secure the win.
• Jackson Hornung also homered, his 11^th, a two-run shot in the fourth inning to give Skidmore a 3-1 lead.
• Union tied it with a pair of solo homers in the fifth.
• Skidmore starter Quinn Hocom ran into trouble in the top of the first and issued a bases-loaded walk to give the Dutchmen a 1-0 lead. He avoided further damage by getting a strikeout and flyout to leave the bases loaded. Hocom stood firm again in the second when Union loaded the bases again with two outs. He got another flyout to get out of it.
• Skidmore tied it at one in the third. Consecutive one-out singles from Hornung and Zachary Ledierman followed by a hit batsmen loaded the bases for Anthony Petersen, who hit an opposite-field single to bring in Hornung from third.
• Hocom wiggled out of a jam one more time in the fourth after a double and bunt single set up the Dutchmen with runners on the corners with nobody out. The first-year pitcher got the first out before Skidmore executed an infield cutoff play to gun down the double-steal attempt at the plate. A groundout completed Hocom's gritty line. He went four innings and allowed one run on five hits with four walks and four strikeouts.

GAME 2 – Union 11, Skidmore 8

• Union led 4-0 until Skidmore scored all eight of its runs in the top of the seventh inning.
• The Dutchmen answered with four in the seventh to tie it and three more in the eighth to take the victory.
• In the big Skidmore seventh, Danny Melillo and Leiderman each had two-RBI base hits. Petersen and Torrado also had run-scoring hits as the Thoroughbreds scored eight runs on five hits and three walks while aided by a pair of errors.
• Five out of the six Skidmore hits in the game came in the seventh inning.
• Grayden Harris worked five innings for Skidmore. He allowed four runs in the first two innings but kept the Thoroughbreds in it by keeping the Dutchmen off the board for the rest of his outing. He surrendered eight hits and four walks with three strikeouts.
• Zach Dines walked a pair in the sixth but worked through it before Skidmore came alive in the seventh to take the lead.
• Union had nine extra-base hits, led by Liam McIlroy who was 4-for-5 with three doubles and a homer and five RBI.