ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. – The Skidmore College baseball team won two road games on Saturday at Bard to complete the three-game weekend sweep of the Raptors. The Thoroughbreds claimed the first game of the doubleheader, 6-2, before winning 11-1 in seven innings in game two.

• Skidmore is off to a 6-0 start in the Liberty League and improves to 13-4-2 with its seventh win in a row.
• Ewen Donald has hit safely in 21 consecutive games dating back to the end of the 2024 season. He is now tied with Will Potter '19 for the program record.
• Bard is 2-15-1 and 0-6 in the Liberty League.
• Eddie Galvao finished the day 4-for-8 with six RBI and two stolen bases.
• Starters Grayden Harris and Quinn Hocom combined to allow just one run over 11 innings.
• Skidmore outscored Bard 28-4 over the weekend.

 
Skidmore 6, Bard 2

• The Thoroughbreds scored five runs in the fifth inning all with two outs to break a 1-1 tie. Donald doubled the opposite way to tie the hit streak record and bring in two runs.
• Then, after an error extended the inning, Jack Riva walked with the bases loaded followed by a two-run Galvao double.
• Bard scored its lone run and registered its only extra-base hit on Harris in the first for the game's first run. Xavier Webb singled and scored on a two-out double from Gavin Gonzalez.
• Skidmore loaded the bases with no outs in the second and settled for one on a Nate Vandersea sacrifice fly.
• Harris surrendered just the run on six hits over six strong innings to pick up his second win. He struck out three and walked one.
• Ethan Barnett secured his second save of the campaign by throwing the final three innings. He surrendered a run on three straight singles in the eighth but stranded two runners on base.  

 
Skidmore 11, Bard 1 (7 inn.)

• Skidmore used the big inning again with three tallies in the first and a six-spot in the fifth with two more in the seventh to build a 10-run cushion.
• Hocom moved to 3-0 on the year with five shutout innings for the Thoroughbreds. He struck out seven with a walk and four hits against.
• Each of Skidmore's eight hits in the game were singles. The Thoroughbreds also walked nine times and got hit by two pitches.
• The first three Skidmore hitters reached to start the game. After the first run scored on a fielder's choice, Galvao came through again with a two-out, two-run single to right.
• Bard put its first runner in scoring position against Hocom in the third, but a strikeout left the runner at third. Hocom also left a base runner on third base in the fifth when he induced a ground ball that completed his outing.
• The Thoroughbreds took advantage of six free passes in the fifth to plate five runs on only two hits (including a two-RBI Galvao single).
• Sam Kornet had the other hit – a single to score a run and keep the bases loaded.
• A double steal in the seventh for Skidmore followed by a wild pitch scored the 10^th run. Quinn McDonald completed the scoring with a run-scoring single on a full-count pitch.
• Peter Martin worked around a two-out walk in the seventh to keep the Raptors off the board and end the game via the run rule.
• Skidmore "mercied" Bard twice in three games and has four run-rule victories in six league contests.

UP NEXT

• Skidmore will host Castleton on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. before three games with Rensselaer next weekend. Skidmore hosts RPI next Friday, April 4, at 3:30 p.m.