Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 FORT MYERS, Fla. – The Skidmore College baseball team began the day with a 12-1 mercy-rule victory over Wisconsin Lutheran College but the Thoroughbreds dropped their second game, losing to Ohio Wesleyan University 6-5 on a walk-off single with two outs in the ninth inning. Skidmore is now 4-6. 
 
Skidmore 12, Wisconsin Lutheran 1 (8 inn.)

• Senior Ameer Hasan allowed just four hits and one run with seven strikeouts over 7.1 innings to earn the win as Skidmore defeated Wisconsin Lutheran for the second time in five days.
• The Thoroughbreds jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first inning. The first three batters reached without getting a hit (HBP, walk, HBP) to set up cleanup hitter Sam Kornet, who delivered a single that scored two. The next two runs came home on outs.
• Wisconsin Lutheran scored its lone run in the top of the second inning, but Skidmore put across two more in its half when Jaden Torrado delivered a two-out, bases loaded single down the left field line for a 6-1 advantage.
• No more runs were scored until the bottom of the fifth inning when the Thoroughbreds added another pair, this time on a double by Nate Vandersea and a single from Shaw Pedemonti.
• Skidmore made it 9-1 with a run in the sixth and then ended it with three in the eighth, highlighted by a double by Vandersea that plated two for the final margin and a mercy-run victory.
• The Thoroughbreds, who beat the Warriors in extra innings on Monday (10-9), finished with 11 hits.
• Vandersea was 3 for 5 with two doubles, a run, and three runs batted in, while Kornet, Torrado, and Andy Pelc both knocked out two hits. Kornet added two walks, two runs, and two runs batted in. Zachary Leiderman scored three times.
• Wisconsin Lutheran was held to three singles and a double with Eli Michaelis going 2 for 3 with an RBI. Starter Tyler Danko took the loss.

 
Ohio Wesleyan 6, Skidmore 5

• Ohio Wesleyan loaded the bases in the ninth inning before scoring the winning run on a two-out single to shortstop by Zane Vitense – his third hit of the game.
• Trailing 2-0 going into the seventh inning, Skidmore broke out with five runs in the frame. With one out, three consecutive singles loaded the bases before a strikeout made it three on with two down. Jaden Torrado came through with a single to center to tie the score.
• Trey Bourque followed with a three-run home run to left field to put the Thoroughbreds on top. It was his second homer of the season.
• Neither team scored in their subsequent half innings, but the Bishops manufactured three in the eighth to knot the score. They did so behind four singles while taking advantage of an error.
• The OWU ninth inning began with a ground out, but the next three batters reached to load the bases. After a strikeout, Vitense plated D.J. Neff, who got on by a hit by pitch, with the winning run.
• Sammy Stoner went 5 for 5 with a run and an RBI for the Bishops, who saw Vitense earn the win in relief after starting the contest at first base.
• Bourque went 3 for 4 with three runs batted in, Quinn McDonald was 3 for 3 with a run, and Nick Duryea had two hits for the Thoroughbreds. Cal Champeau took the loss in relief.

 
NEXT UP: Skidmore is scheduled to face the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford on Saturday at 9 a.m. in its final game of the Gene Cusic Classic before traveling back to campus.