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Grace O'Connell
Jay Ruzicka
Grace O'Connell set the program's single-season stolen base record.
5
Winner Middlebury MIDD 16-11
0
Skidmore SKIDMORE 7-22
Winner
Middlebury MIDD
16-11
5
Final
0
Skidmore SKIDMORE
7-22
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Middlebury MIDD 1 0 0 0 1 0 3 5 10 0
Skidmore SKIDMORE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 3

W: J. Ashbrook (5-3) L: Mayne, Natalie (2-2)

3
Winner Middlebury MIDD 17-11
2
Skidmore SKIDMORE 7-23
Winner
Middlebury MIDD
17-11
3
Final
2
Skidmore SKIDMORE
7-23
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Middlebury MIDD 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 8 1
Skidmore SKIDMORE 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 6 1

W: A. Jankowski (1-0) L: Monser, Rachel (1-4) S: S. Hausman (2)

Game Recap: Softball |

O’Connell sets stolen base record as Skidmore hangs tight with Middlebury

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - The Skidmore College softball team hosted Middlebury College in its final non-league games of the regular season and the Thoroughbreds dropped both contests. The Panthers won game one 5-0 and then countered a late Skidmore run with one of their own to win the second contest 3-2. In the third inning of game two, Skidmore senior Grace O'Connell recorded her 28th steal of the year to break a tie with Tracy Young (1996) for the most in a single season in program history.  
 
Middlebury 5, Skidmore 0
  • The Thoroughbreds managed to hold the Panthers to just one run in the first inning despite the visitors getting the first five batters on base, including four hits.
  • Left fielder Elle Harrison threw a runner out at home for the first out.
  • Skidmore combined to nab another runner on the bases for out number two, though a run scored.
  • The Thoroughbreds got two on in the second inning, including a leadoff single from Caitlyn Dion, but couldn't get anyone across.
  • The score remained 1-0 until the top of the fifth inning when Middlebury's Kristyn Carroll singled, stole second and third, and came home on a hit by Megan Fox.
  • Fox was thrown out at second base by center fielder O'Connell, the reigning Liberty League Performer of the Week.
  • The Panthers added three runs in the seventh inning with the help of four hits and three errors.
  • The Thoroughbreds put two on with two outs in the seventh inning.
  • Natalie Mayne went the distance in the circle for Skidmore, while Jewel Ashbrook did the same for the visitors.
  • Skidmore had four hits, all singles, from four different players.
  • Middlebury had 10 hits with Carroll collecting three, along with two runs scored and three stolen bases.
 
Middlebury 3, Skidmore 2
  • Panthers leadoff hitter Kristyn Carroll started the game with a triple to right field and then came across on a sacrifice fly to right by Megan Fox, the third place hitter.
  • A two-out triple down the right field line by Skylar Wong made it 2-0 in the second inning.
  • Skidmore's first run of the day also came with two outs. O'Connell singled and stole second base to move into scoring position and set the record. An infield single to third base by Elle Harrison brought O'Connell home thanks to a ball getting away at first.
  • Thoroughbred lefty Rachel Monser faced trouble in the circle in the sixth inning but ended the frame with a strikeout, her fifth of the game.
  • Skidmore tied the game in its half of the game when Claire Stone singled up the middle with two outs to score Harrison, who started the frame by being hit by a pitch.
  • A McKenna Lont sacrifice fly in the seventh inning put the Panthers back in front.
  • Abigail Jankowski got the win and Samantha Hausman the save, while Monser took the loss.
  • O'Connell and Sophia Finch both had two hits for the Thoroughbreds.
  • Carroll (single, double, triple) and Hausman (2 singles) had multiple hits on the other side.
  • Skidmore is now 7-23 and Middlebury is 17-11.
 
UP NEXT: Skidmore travels to St. Lawrence University for a pair of Liberty League contests on Saturday beginning at 1 p.m. The Thoroughbreds then play at conference foe Ithaca College on Sunday at 1 p.m.
 
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