FORT MYERS, Fla. – EJ Stefanelli hit a walk-off single in the first game and Sam Kornet blasted two go-ahead home runs in extra innings of game two, but it wasn't enough as Alfred State answered three times in extras and won it in the bottom of the 12^th inning, 12-11, to complete a wild doubleheader split with the Skidmore College baseball team on Saturday.

• Skidmore is off to a 6-4-1 start after going 6-3 in Florida. The Thoroughbreds will return North with eyes on Liberty League play beginning next weekend.

 
Skidmore 6, Alfred State 5

• Stefanelli capped Skidmore's ferocious comeback with a two-out single past the third baseman in the bottom of the seventh inning to walk it off for the Thoroughbreds.

• After recording the first out, the Pioneer reliever walked the text two, and after striking out another Thoroughbred for the second out, fell into a 3-1 hole to Stefanelli before surrendering the winning hit. Eddie Galvao, who walked in four pitches, slid in safely ahead of the throw at home.
• Skidmore faced a 5-0 deficit before tying it up with two in the fifth and three in the sixth.
• The Thoroughbreds loaded the bases with no outs in the fifth and scored twice on a Ewen Donald infield single with an overthrow.
• Skidmore then used four consecutive singles in the sixth culminating in a Stefanelli two-run hit over the first-base bag and a Jack Riva RBI base knock through the left side two batters later to tie it up.
• Stefanelli was 3-for-4 with three RBI. Riva was 2-for-3 off the bench.
• Alfred State plated single runs in the first, third, and fourth before scoring twice more in the fifth to knock out Skidmore starter Quinn Hocom.
• Hocom struck out nine through 4.2 innings.
• Charles Modlin came in for the last out of the fifth and pitched the rest of the way scoreless for his second relief win of the trip.
• Pioneer starter Ryan Bailey threw 110 pitches over six innings in a no-decision. He scattered 10 hits with five runs, three earned, allowed with a walk and five punch outs.

 
Alfred State 12, Skidmore 11 (12 inn.)

• Trey Bourque doubled to lead off the top of the 10^th inning leading up to Kornet's towering blast over the wall in left-center field.
• The Pioneers put the leadoff hitter aboard in the bottom half of the 11^th, but Carter Klein induced a ground-ball double play to get two quick outs. A double brought up the tying run for the Pioneers and a dropped fly ball in the outfield extended the game.   
• Nate Vandersea came through with a one-out double in the 11^th to score Holden Caney, who also doubled, to give Skidmore the lead again. Alfred State had a triple and sacrifice fly to tie it again.
• Kornet led off the 12^th with his second homer of the day; a no-doubt bomb to left. Then, Donald doubled and later came in on a Mac Cady two-out single.
• The first three Alfred State hitters in the 12^th got hits to tie the game up. Caleb Walker won it for the Pioneers with an infield single.
• Skidmore's four-run top of the first inning was highlighted by a three-run home run from Riva: the first long ball of his collegiate career.
• Quinn McDonald tripled right after and scored a batter later on a Mac Cady double to right-center for the fourth run.
• Alfred State got one back, but left two runners on, in the bottom of the second.
• The Pioneers then scored three runs on five hits in the third to take the lead.
• The Thoroughbreds grabbed the lead back in the fourth. Caney blasted the first of his two doubles off the wall and scored one batter later on a Tyler Holm single. With two outs, Bourque brought in the go-ahead run on a single through the infield.
• Alfred State found the equalizer again in the bottom of the sixth. Connor Kiefer hit a chopper down the third-base line that was ruled fair for a double. He came in to score on a Zach Young single with two outs.
• The hurlers traded zeros until Skidmore went ahead in the 10^th.
• Young went 5-for-7 for Alfred State with four RBI.
• Bourque and Donald both finished 3-for-6, while Kornet and Riva both drove in three runs.
• Cal Champeau, Sam Dalsimer, and Klein teamed up for one earned run over 7.1 innings of relief.

 
UP NEXT

• Skidmore opens Liberty League play next weekend with a three-game series against Vassar College. The series opener is scheduled for Friday, March 21 at 3:30 p.m. at the Castle Diamond.