LEESBURG, Fla. – The Skidmore College softball team scored five runs with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning to earn a dramatic 8-7 come-from-behind, walk off victory over University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg on Sunday in the team's first day in Florida. Earlier in the day, Skidmore dropped an 8-1 decision to Kean University.
 
Kean 8, Skidmore 1

• The Cougars scored three in the fifth and two in the sixth to blow open a game that until that point was close.
• Kean scored the game's first three runs: two in the bottom of the first and another in the third. Four hits in the first, including an Eliza Filus RBI double and later a Karly Messina infield single gave Kean a 2-0 lead.
• Skidmore starter Hailey Clarke induced an inning-ending double play on a ground ball to shortstop Clare Stone to keep the big inning away.
• The Cougars played small ball to turn a leadoff walk into a run in the third.
• Singles from Grace O'Connell and Chloe McGonagle followed by a Franchesca Casillas walk loaded the bases in the fourth with one out for the Thoroughbreds. Caitlyn Dion walked to score Skidmore's run before Kean pitcher Samantha Raymond got two of her nine strikeouts in succession to wiggle out of it.
• Raymond allowed just three singles and worked around five walks and two hit batter for the complete-game win for Kean.

 
Skidmore 8, Pitt-Greensburg 7

• With a runner on first base and two outs in the seventh, five consecutive Thoroughbreds reached base on four hits and a walk to come all the way back from a 7-3 deficit for the improbable victory.
• Down to her final strike, Claire Stone got the rally started with a single to center. O'Connell blasted a double to the left-center field gap, her second two-bagger of the night, to score both runners and bring up the tying run, Casillas, who walked. Stone, O'Connell, and Casillas were all down to their final strike as part of the big inning.
• Dion snuck a first-pitch single through the middle to bring around O'Connell from second and move the tying run into scoring position.
• Cortney Somsky then hit another one through the box for a single and Casillas came around to score when the throw in from the outfield got away.
• Clarke finished off the epic comeback with an infield single to score Dion from third and walk it off for the Thoroughbreds. Skidmore never led in the game before winning it.
• The game was tied at two apiece until Greensburg scored two runs on a wild pitch in the sixth to take the lead.
• Skidmore clawed back for one in the bottom half when Somsky dragged a bunt up the first base line for a single to score O'Connell, after her first double of the game, from third.
• Greensburg seemed to have the game in hand when it added three insurance markers, but left the bases loaded, in the top of the seventh.      
• Natalie Mayne's first collegiate win was a memorable one. She needed just one pitch in relief to get out of the jam in the top of the seventh before Skidmore's rally.

NEXT UP: Skidmore will play nationally 11^th-ranked Bethel University on Monday at 12:15 p.m. and McDaniel College later at 4:45 p.m.