SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The Skidmore College softball team hosted SUNY Oneonta in a make-up doubleheader on Monday afternoon. Skidmore scored 12 runs across the two games but dropped 11-7 and 10-5 decisions to the visiting Red Dragons.
 
Oneonta 11, Skidmore 7

• The Red Dragons plated five runs in the top of the first inning. Abigail Silliman highlighted the inning with a two-run double.
• Skidmore got two back in the second. Caitlyn Dion doubled in Bernie Berner, who walked, for Skidmore's first run. Dion was gunned down at third trying to stretch it into a triple. Later in the inning, Claire Stone wrapped an RBI single down the rightfield line with two outs.
• Skidmore cut the deficit to two in the third on a Dion two-out single through the middle.
• The visitors extended their lead to four with single runs in the fourth and fifth.
• The Thoroughbreds scored four times in the fifth to tie the game at seven. The first four batters reached base safely, including a Dion infield single that scored a pair after an overthrow of first base.
• Later, Jessica Nachamie hit in the sixth run with a sacrifice fly, and Stone tied it with a double to the left-center field gap.
• Oneonta regained the lead with an unearned run in the sixth before scoring three more times in the seventh.
• Dion and Stone were both 3-for-4 for Skidmore.
• Adriana Fiori went 4-for-5 for the Red Dragons with three RBI.

 
Oneonta 10, Skidmore 5

• For the second time of the day, Oneonta (8-12) scored five times in the first inning.
• Oneonta pitchers struck out 15 Thoroughbred hitters. Starter Emily Brown punched out nine over 4.1 innings. Angelina Scalere closed with six strikeouts over the finial 2.2 innings.
• For Skidmore, Mallory Allen tossed 4.2 innings of relief. She surrendered two runs, one earned, on two hits with a pair of punchouts.
• Hailey Clark ripped a double into the gap in left-center to bring Skidmore's first run around in the second.
• Skidmore (4-18) bats fell quite until the fifth, when up against the run rule, the Thoroughbreds scored four times to keep the game alive. Grace O'Connell extender her hitting streak to 10 with a two-run single through the right side to make it 10-3. She scored one batter later on a Bernie Berner triple. Later, Berner scored Skidmore's fifth and final tally on a ground ball in the infield.
• Berner was 3-for-4 and a home run shy of a cycle in game two.
• Fiori was 3-for-4 to finish the day 7-for-9.

NEXT UP: Skidmore has a quick turnaround with two more make-up games Tuesday at SUNY Delhi starting at 3 p.m.