NEW PALTZ, N.Y. -  The Skidmore College softball team dropped a pair on the road at SUNY New Paltz on Wednesday. The Hawks blanked the Thoroughbreds, 6-0, in game one and claimed game two 7-1.

• Both teams are 6-12 at the end of the day's action.
• Junior Elle Harrison finished the afternoon 4-for-6 with a walk.

 
New Paltz 6, Skidmore 0

• The only runs scored in the first four innings was when the hosts crossed three across the plate in the second highlighted by a Lauren Serrao two-RBI double.
• Elle Harrison singled to lead off the fourth representing Skidmore's first hit but was thrown out trying to steal keeping New Paltz starter Sydney Waldon just one over the minimum.
• Skidmore gunned down a runner at the plate in the fifth, but the hosts still scored a pair to push the advantage to five.
• Natalie Mayne and Harrison singled with two outs in the sixth and both moved up on a passed ball. It was the only time Skidmore got anyone in scoring position as Waldon extinguished the threat with a groundout.
• New Paltz completed the scoring with a single run in the sixth.
• Waldon struck out eight in the three-hit shutout.

 
New Paltz 7, Skidmore 1

• Skidmore scored the first run of the game in the top of the first with the help of three walks and a Harrison single.
• Nate' Burley earned the RBI with a bases-loaded walk.
• Skidmore threatened again in the second but came up empty despite loading the bases with one out. Erin Gibbons doubled to lead it off.
• New Paltz executed a squeeze play in the second as the contest went on to remain tied at one apiece into the fourth.
• Three runs in both the fourth and fifth innings for New Paltz was the difference. Back-to-back doubles set up the rally in the fourth as the Hawks put together five base hits in the frame.
• Skidmore again threatened in the fifth using two walks and a hit batter again to load the bases with two outs, but couldn't cut into the deficit despite the pressure.
• Kelsey O'Brien put the game out of reach in the bottom half of the fifth when she hit a two-out, bases-clearing double to make it 7-1.
• Three New Paltz pitchers combined for 13 strikeouts. Leah Gunsett got the win with 3.2 innings of shutout relief. She surrendered just one hit and one walk with seven strikeouts.
• Harrison recorded her fourth-straight multi-hit game and reached base safely three times.

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• Skidmore will begin Liberty League play on Friday (moved up) against Rensselaer starting at 2:30 p.m.