FORT MYERS, Fla. – The Skidmore College baseball team was outscored 22-6 in a doubleheader loss to Rhode Island College on Wednesday. RIC won the first game 5-3 with three runs in the sixth inning before exploding for 17 tallies in game two.
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Rhode Island 5, Skidmore 3
- Trzepacz had the big blow for the Anchormen in the opener. He hit a two-out, two-run double in the top of the sixth inning to break a 2-2 tie that held since the second inning.
- He scored two batters later on a Helfrich single. All three runs were unearned.
- With runners on first and third with two outs in the bottom of the seventh, Trey Bourque doubled in one and represented the tying run in scoring position.
- Zachary Leiderman lined out to left to end it.
- The Thoroughbreds were limited to four hits. Mansfield got the win I relief after allowing just on unearned run and one hit (the Bourque double) over three innings.
- Ethan Barnett logged 4.1 innings of relief after getting called into duty in the first inning. He scattered six hits but issued just one walk and a pair of runs with four punchouts.
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Rhode Island 17, Skidmore 3
- RIC blew it open with nine runs on eight eights and four walks all while sending 15 batters to the plate in the frame. Seven of the runs were scored with two outs.
- A wild pitch Trey Bourque from third opened the scoring in the first. It was 2-0 Skidmore soon after when Zach Dines got plunked with the bases loaded.
- RIC answered on back-to-back homers from Trzepacz and Podedworn.
- Skidmore briefly regained the lead in the third. Eddie Galvao drove in an unearned run with a two-out single.
- In the bottom half, the Anchorman got three with the help of five walks, including three in a row with the bases loaded.
- Trzepacz and Iannuccil both hit two-run singles in RIC's big fifth inning.
- Rhode Island closed it out with three more in the sixth.
- Galvao finished 2-for-3 and reached base three times.
- Rhode Island had two players with three hits and three with three RBI.
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NEXT UP: Skidmore continues its stay at the Gene Cusic Classic Thursday morning against Franklin and Marshall College at 9 a.m.
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