SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Senior Sam Kornet hit career home runs number 22 and 23 on Monday to become the program's all-time leader as the Skidmore College baseball team dropped a twin bill on Monday against Ithaca. The Bombers bashed their way to a 24-11 win in game one before coming from behind and taking the lead before darkness ended game two early.

• Kornet hit both of his home runs in the second game. He tied Jackson Hornung '23 with a solo homer in the second inning and later hit a two-run shot in the fifth that pulled the Thoroughbreds to within a run and break the record.
• Kornet now also has 11 home runs on the year, one short of Hornung's single-season record of 12.
• The battle of division leaders has Ithaca at 17-10 overall and 10-3 in the Liberty League.
• Skidmore is 16-9-2 and 9-4.

 
Ithaca 24, Skidmore 11

• Ethan Fantel went 3-for-3 for Ithaca with two home runs, a double, five RBI, four walks, and four runs scored.
• Camden Laney had a homer, double, and four RBI on a 3-for-4 game with a walk.
• Nate Rodriguez also drove in four.
• For Skidmore, Eddie Galvao knocked in four runs and finished 2-for-4.
• Kornet went 3-for-5 with a double, walk, and three RBI.
• Quinn McDonald had three hits in five trips and scored twice.
• Twelve pitchers threw a combined 425 pitches to get through it in a game that lasted four and a quarter hours.
• Both teams scored five times in the first inning and it staid that way until the fourth when Ithaca scored six times on five hits with two errors.
• Runs continued to be traded until the Bomber lead was cut to four, 15-11, after three Skidmore tallies in the seventh.
• Ithaca scored the final nine runs of the game over the last two innings.

 
Ithaca 7, Skidmore 6

• Laney slashed a 2-2 pitch with two outs in the eighth inning to left to score the go-ahead run for the Bombers.
• One batter earlier, Ethan McDonough tied the game with a sacrifice fly.
• The eighth inning was determined to be the final inning of play due to darkness. The game, which began seven minutes before 5 p.m., was scheduled for nine innings.
• Skidmore went down 1-2-3 in the bottom of the eighth.
• The first batter of the game, Andrew McDemott, homered and the visitors built an early 5-0 lead with four in the second on two-run singles from both McDonough and Laney.
• Korney's solo blast in the second got Skidmore on the board.
• Then, in the fourth, Holden Caney came through with a sacrifice fly to pull Skidmore to within three.
• Trey Bourque worked a one-out walk in the fifth before Kornet unleashed the record-breaking long ball two batter later.
• Skidmore took the lead in the sixth when Zachary Leiderman scored two on a long single off the fence in center field. Two walks and a single loaded the bases for the Thoroughbreds.
• After rocky start, Jack Collins settled in and gave Skidmore five innings. He worked around lead-off singles in the third and fourth and a one-out walk in the fifth.
• Alex Tavano then pitched two innings of shutout relief.
• Dan Kellachan got the win for Ithaca with two frames of one-hit, shutout ball. He was aided by an inning-ending, line-drive double play in the seventh.

 
UP NEXT

• Skidmore is right back at it on Tuesday as it will host Williams in a non-league game starting at 4 p.m.