FORT MYERS, Fla. – The Skidmore College baseball team opened its spring break trip with a doubleheader defeat to Haverford. The Thoroughbred dropped a pitchers' duel in game one, 2-1, before coming out on the wrong end of a 20-6 decision in game two.
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Haverford 2, Skidmore 1
- After Skidmore tied the game at two in the top of the seventh inning, Haverford won it in the bottom half on a one-out walk-off single from Jack Wallis.
- Jaden Torrado doubled to lead off the top of the seventh inning for the Thoroughbreds. He advanced to third with one out on a Ewen Donald fly out and scored when Eddie Galvao reached on a fielding error with two outs.
- The only run in the game to that point was a Harry Genth one-out homer for Haverford in the first.
- Both starters sparkled. Ameer Hasan gave up the two runs on just four hits in 6.1 innings. He walked three and struck out four.
- Mike Rabayda surrendered three hits and struck out 11 over 6.2 innings for Haverford. Wyatt Mattison got the win after retiring the last batter in the top of the seventh.
- Trey Bourque tossed out three base stealers and a line-drive double play to end the fourth kept the Squirrels off the board until the seventh despite having traffic on the basepaths. The fifth inning was Hasan's only 1-2-3 frame.
- Including a dropped-third strike in the second, Rabayda retired 14 Thoroughbred hitters in a row.
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Haverford 20, Skidmore 6
- Haverford scored 20 runs on 18 hits. Seven different players had multi-hit games. Sam Schaeffer and Luke Tresse both drove in four. Schaeffer hit a three-run home run.
- Sam Kornet and Shaw Pedemonti both had two hits for the Thoroughbreds. Quinn McDonald drive in three runs on a bases-clearing double in the seventh to break up a streak of 16 unanswered Haverford runs.
- Torrado drove in two runs for Skidmore, and Kornet hit in the other.
- The Black Squirrels scored five in the fifth and eight in the sixth and finished with at least a run in all innings except the second and seventh.
- Two walks and a hit batter in the bottom of the seventh set up McDonald's pinch hit three-run double.
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NEXT UP: Skidmore will play Wisconsin Lutheran College in a single game Monday at noon.
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