TROY, N.Y. – The Skidmore College baseball team won game one of Sunday's doubleheader at Rensselaer, 6-2, to clinch the series victory over the Engineers. RPI walked off the second game in the bottom of the ninth inning, 10-9.

• Skidmore is 16-6-2 overall and 8-1 in the Liberty League now with three series victories in a row.
• RPI is 16-8 and 4-2.
• Senior Ewen Donald had hits in both games extending his program-record hit streak to 25.

 
Skidmore 6, RPI 2

• Skidmore got a dandy from sophomore Chase Siegel. The right-hander went 7.2 innings with just two runs and six hits allowed. He walked one and struck out four.
• Sam Dalsimer and Jack Collins made it the rest of the way unscathed.
• Offensively, Skidmore used homers from Sam Kornet and Eddie Galvao as it let from the fifth batter of the game until the end.
• Skidmore scored in the first after it had the bases loaded with one out on a walk and two hit batsmen.
• Ewen Donald wrapped an RBI single to right to get the scoring started.
• The Thoroughbreds again loaded the bases with one out in the fourth when Trey Bourque doubled the Skidmore lead with a sacrifice fly.
• Kornet hit his eighth home run of the year and 20^th of his career to lead off the fifth. Kornet is two away from tying the career homer record at Skidmore.
• The hosts got one back in the sixth when Aidan Hicks tripled to lead off and came in one batter later on a Jon Primerano sacrifice fly.
• Galvao's one-out bomb in the seventh gave Skidmore is three-run cushion right back.
• Then, Donald hit a two-RBI singles in the top of the eighth with two outs to make it 6-1.
• RPI got one back in the bottom of the eighth but left a pair on as Dalsimer came in and extinguished the threat.

 
RPI 11, Skidmore 10

• Hicks hit a walkoff single through the right side to win it after RPI loaded the bases with nobody out in the ninth.
• The Engineers faced deficits of 5-0 and 10-7 before coming back both times.
• Senior Andy Pelc entered the lineup and went 4-for-4 for the Thoroughbreds with a walk and stolen base.
• EJ Stefanelli finished 3-for-4 with a home run, double, and four runs scored.
• For RPI, Hicks went 4-for-6, and Will Abdallah was 4-for-5.
• The Thoroughbreds rallied for three in the top of the second before pushing the lead to five in the third on RBI singles from Stefanelli and Nate Vandersea.
• The hosts scored seven times across the third and fourth innings to take the lead.
• Stefanelli's long ball in the fifth, as well as a Bourque RBI doubles, tied it at eight.
• Pelc hit his second run-scoring single of the contest in the sixth followed by another Vandersea single to score a run before a wild pitch made it 10-7 Skidmore.
• Ian Oehlschlaeger launched a solo homer in the sixth before a Connor Lapp two-RBI single in the seventh tied it up.
• Alex Tavano entered in a bases-loaded, no-out jam in the eighth. The first-year lefty induced a 6-2-3 ground-ball double play and another ground out wo wiggle out of it without allowing a run.
• The Thoroughbreds went down 1-2-3 in the ninth before RPI's rally to win it.
• Zach Zajac pitched three innings of shutout relief for the Engineers to pick up the victory.

 
UP NEXT

• Skidmore will host Williams on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. before non-division conference doubleheaders at home next weekend against Ithaca and Hobart.