COBLESKILL, N.Y. – Senior
Trey Bourque broke the Skidmore College Baseball career RBI record with a sacrifice fly in the fifth inning as the Thoroughbreds defeated SUNY Cobleskill, 9-3, on Tuesday afternoon in non-league action.
- The sac fly was Bourque's 119th career run batted in breaking a tie with Ross Aresco '00. He later reached the 120 RBI plateau with a single to bring in a run in the seventh.
- Skidmore pitchers did not allow a hit in the game until there was one out in the bottom of the seventh on a bunt single.
- Six Skidmore pitchers combined to allow just two earned runs and three hits over eight innings.
- After Alex Tavano went two scoreless, Peter Martin pitched a 1-2-3 third. Will Markwood and Carter Klein both worked around a pair of walks in their innings of work. Klein got two of his three outs from strikeouts.
- The game was called after eight innings of play due to darkness.
- Sam Kornet finished 3-for-5 with three doubles and two RBI.
- Jack Riva reached five times on a 2-for-2 afternoon with two walks and a hit-by-pitch.
- Five Thoroughbreds got plunked.
- Bourque was one of them. He was 2-for-3 with the two RBI and a double.
- Skidmore scored in the first on a wild pitch, and neither team cracked the scoreboard until Bourque's sac fly in the fifth. Kornet's double two batters later brought in the third run.
- Cobleskill plated two without a hit in the sixth.
- Skidmore (10-4-2) responded with six tallies in the seventh as 11 batters came to the plate aided by a pair of defensive miscues from the Fighting Tigers.
- Thomas Reis hit a home run for Cobleskill (5-8) in the eighth to complete the scoring.
UP NEXT
- Skidmore will open a three-game series with Bard on Friday at 3:30 p.m. on the road before hosting the Raptors for a doubleheader on Saturday. First pitch is scheduled for noon.