SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Jessica Nachamie hit a walk-off triple to score the tying and winning runs as the Skidmore College softball team scored six runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to earn an epic 8-7 win over visiting Russell Sage College. The Gators won the first game, 13-9, in nine innings.
 
Skidmore is 4-14 following the split. Sage is 5-13
 
Russell Sage 13, Skidmore 9 (9 inn.)

• A wild first inning set the scene for the rest of the day as 11 combined runs came across the plate. RSC punched first, with three in the top of the first, before Skidmore came roaring back with eight in its half.
• Madison Bonham hit a bases-clearing, three-run double, Cortney Somsky ripped a two-RBI double, and Bernie Berner drove in two with a single to highlight the huge inning.
• The visitors pulled to within three with a pair in the fourth.
• Neither team scored until the seventh. An infield error, two walks, and a hit batter were the recipe for Sage to score three to tie the game at eight.
• Both teams scored in the eighth with the international tiebreak rule runner to start the inning at second.
• Four runs came across for Sage in the top of the ninth, which turned out to be enough.
• Somsky had two out of Skidmore's five hits. She was 2-for-4, scored twice, and walked.

 
Skidmore 8, Russell Sage 7

• The epic five-run comeback was fueled by two-run home runs from both Grace O'Connell and Bonham. They were the first and second home runs for Skidmore as a team this season.
• The long balls brought the tying run to the plate with nobody out as each of the first four batters in the inning got hits and scored.
• Sage got an out before Hailey Clarke hit a single through the left side. Claire Stone moved the tying run into scoring position one batter later with another single setting the stage for Nachamie. She hit a line drive past the diving attempt of the centerfielder and all the way to the fence, giving plenty of time for Clarke to score the tying run and for Stone to come around from first to complete the comeback. Nachamie slid in safe on an inconsequential throw to third to officially record a triple as the winning run crossed the plate.  
• It is the second multi-run, last inning comeback for Skidmore this year. The Thoroughbreds trailed Pitt-Greensburg by four in the bottom of the seventh in Florida before coming back to walk it off.
• Sage took a 3-0 lead after two innings and expanded it to four in the fifth.
• Skidmore cut the deficit in half with a pair in the fifth, but the Gators answered with a three-spot in the top of the sixth to stretch their lead to 7-2.
• Clarke and O'Connell both had three hits. O'Connell drove in three runs and scored twice.
• Natalie Mayne surrendered three earned runs for Skidmore over six innings without issuing any walks before Mallory Allen got through the top of the seventh unscathed and got the win.

 
NEXT UP: Skidmore will visit Union and Ithaca this weekend for four Liberty League contests before returning home on Monday, April 15 against Oneonta.