POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. – The Skidmore College baseball team completed its Liberty League opening sweep of Vassar College with two road wins on Saturday. The Thoroughbreds won game one of the doubleheader 16-5 in seven innings before claiming victory in the nightcap, 8-4, to complete the three-game weekend sweep of the Vassar.

• Skidmore (9-4-2, 3-0 Liberty League) outscored Vassar (5-8, 0-3 Liberty League) 43-17 over the weekend that featured two mercy-rule wins.
• It is the second time that Skidmore has swept Vassar since the current divisional format began ahead of the 2022 season.
• The Thoroughbreds have defeated the Brewers in nine out of the last 10 meetings and 14 out of the last 16.
• With a run-scoring single in the fourth inning of game two, Skidmore senior Trey Bourque tied the career RBI record when he drove in the 118^th run of his career. He is currently tied atop the list with Ross Aresco '00.

 
Skidmore 16, Vassar 5 (7 inn.)

• Sam Kornet hit the big blow of the game – a grand slam in the third inning to erase an early Vassar 1-0 lead.
• Skidmore erupted one inning later, scoring 10 runs on just three impactful hits. All three hits scored two runs as Bourque hit a two-RBI double, Eddie Galvao hit a two-run single, and EJ Stefanelli brought in a pair with a single.
• Skidmore walked seven times in the inning and got hit by two pitches. The Thoroughbreds send 15 batters to the plate in the monster inning.
• Ricardo Reyna launched a three-run homer in the bottom of the fourth for the Brewers.
• Then, in the top of the fifth, Ewen Donald hit a two-run home run to right field to get Skidmore to 16.
• Vassar plated one in the bottom half of the sixth to complete the scoring.
• Chase Siegel won his third game for Skidmore. He struck out seven over five innings, allowing four runs and seven hits and one walk.
• Charles Modlin tossed two frames of relief to close it out.
• Kornet reached four times. He was 2-for-3 with two walks and three runs scored.
• Bourque was 2-for-3 with a walk.
• Six different players for Skidmore scored at least twice.

 
Skidmore 8, Vassar 4

• Skidmore plated single runs in the first and second innings and then two in the fourth to take a 4-0 lead.
• Kornet opened the scoring with a one-out single to center field.
• An infield error followed by a wild pitch and a first-and-third play gave Skidmore its second run in the second.
• Landon Schwartzman singled and scored on a wild pitch in the fourth before Bourque tied the record with an infield single to score Skidmore's fourth run.
• Vassar threatened in the third and fourth off Skidmore starter Grayden Harris before finally breaking through in the fifth. Jensen Bergman hit a two-run homer to put the Brewers on the board.
• Skidmore got one back in the sixth on a strikeout-passed ball. Vassar then pulled to within a run with single tallies in the sixth and seventh. The Brewers left the bases loaded in the sixth as Thoroughbreds reliever Jack Collins came in and wiggled out of a jam.
• Harris earned his first win of the year. He allowed three runs and eight hits over 5.1 winnings. The junior struck out five and walked one.
• Collins did not surrender an earned run over 2.2 innings. He struck out two and did not issue a walk.
• With the lead trimmed to one, Skidmore rallied for three in the top of the eighth, highlighted by a Donald two-RBI single. Vassar committed three errors in the frame – the last of 15 errors committed over the weekend.
• Sam Dalsimer worked a scoreless ninth with two strikeouts to preserve the win.

UP NEXT

• The Thoroughbreds will visit SUNY Cobleskill on Tuesday, March 25 before another division series against Bard next weekend.