MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – The Skidmore College softball team fell short in a pair of tight non-league road contests at Middlebury on Tuesday afternoon. The Panthers came out ahead 2-1 in game one before scoring seven runs in the sixth inning on the way to a 10-2 victory in the nightcap.

• The hosts extended their winning streak to seven with the home sweep. Middlebury is 13-3 on the year and 6-0 at home.
• Skidmore dips to 4-10.

 
Middlebury 2, Skidmore 1

• Middlebury scored the go-ahead run with two outs in the bottom of the fifth on a first-and-third play when the throw back to the pitcher got away.
• Skidmore put the tying run in scoring position in both the sixth and seventh, but was unable to push the equalizer across the plate against Panther reliever Emily Ye.
• Middlebury took the lead in the first when a leadoff walk came around to score on a Jennifer Westphal two-out single through the infield.
• Thoroughbred pitcher Natalie Mayne retired the next nine Middlebury hitters in a row into the fourth inning.
• Skidmore tied it up in the top of the fourth when Madison Bonham led off with a double and pinch runner Sam Waters scored a batter later on a Mayne single up the middle.
• Bonham's double was the only extra-base hit by either side.
• Madi Gambino singled and walked twice to reach in all three of her plate appearances.
• Mayne surrendered just the two runs, one earned, on six hits and a walk. She struck out one and got 12 of her 18 outs on the ground.
• Middlebury starter Samantha Hausman allowed a run and four hits with three strikeouts. Ye struck out four to pick up her second save.

 
Middlebury 10, Skidmore 2 (6 inn.)

• The Panthers held just a one-run lead before the seven-run outburst in the bottom of the sixth inning put a halt to the game.
• Each of the 10 batters that went to bat for Middlebury in the sixth reached on seven hits, two walks, and an error.
• Gambino singled to lead off the game, her fourth-straight time on base, and Skidmore led 2-0 after back-to-back doubles from Bonham and Mayne.
• The lead was short lived as Middlebury answered with two unearned runs in the bottom of the first to tie it up.
• Mallory Allen locked it down after that, retiring the next 10 Panther hitters in a row before a Kristyn Carroll RBI triple in the bottom of the fifth gave the home team a one-run lead.
• Claire Stone tripled with one out in the Skidmore half of the second but the Thoroughbreds left the bases loaded. It was the last hit Skidmore recorded as a Nate' Burley walk was the lone Thoroughbred base runner the rest of the way off McKenna Lont.

 
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Skidmore will host SUNY Delhi on Friday, March 28 starting at 3 p.m.