SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The Skidmore College baseball team swept visiting University of Rochester in a Liberty League Crossover Series on Friday, advancing the Thoroughbreds to next week's double elimination conference tournament. Skidmore won game one, 15-5, in seven innings, before claiming the second game, 5-1, to clinch the series and advance. With a single in the bottom of the third inning of game one, senior Trey Bourque broke the program's all-time hit record with the 192^nd hit of his career.

• Skidmore will play in the double elimination Liberty League Tournament May 8-10. The tournament will be hosted by either Ithaca or Skidmore. Ithaca is up one game to none and leads 3-1 in a suspended game two that will be picked up on Saturday.
• The Thoroughbreds reach the 20-win plateau (20-15-2) for the third time in the past four years with the sweep.
• The wins also avenge two years in a row that Rochester has eliminated Skidmore.
• After the doubleheader, Skidmore recognized its seven seniors: Peter Martin, Trey Bourque, Zachary Leiderman, Andy Pelc, Ewen Donald, Ethan Barnett, Sam Kornet

 
Skidmore 15, Rochester 5 (7 inn.)

• Skidmore pounced early with three runs in three out of the first four innings and two in the other.
• Four straight singles in the bottom of the first gave Skidmore a 2-0 lead. The Thoroughbreds scored one more in the frame on an RBI bounce out.
• In the second, Leiderman and Kornet hit back-to-back home runs to give the team a 6-0 lead. Kornet's 12^th of the year tied Jackson Hornung '23 for the single-season record.
• Seven Skidmore starters scored at least twice and six had multi-hit games.
• Donald was 4-for-4 with a double and two RBI.
• Leiderman finished 3-for-5, while Bourque, Kornet, Eddie Galvao, and Landon Schwartzman each finished with two hits.
• The 2-thru-6 hitters in the Skidmore lineup went a combined 13-for-21 with 10 runs scored and nine RBI.
• Chase Siegel pitched a complete game to extend his league-best win total to eight. Siegel surrendered only one earned run over seven innings, scattering nine hits including eight singles. He did not walk a batter and struck out four.
• After Skidmore ran out to an 8-0 lead, Rochester cut the deficit with four runs in the fourth aided by three errors.
• Skidmore responded with three right away and reached the 10-run rule threshold with four more in the bottom of the sixth.
• Josh Leadem finished 3-for-3 for the Yewllowjackets, and Sammy Smith was 2-for-3.

 
Skidmore 5, Rochester 1

• Skidmore scored the go-ahead run in the fifth, and three more in the sixth, breaking a 1-1 tie, and Charles Modlin took care of the rest. He pitched 3.2 innings of three-hit, shutout relief for the save.
• Quinn Hocom allowed just one run over 5.1 innings to improve his record to 4-0. He worked around five walks and five hits with six strikeouts.
• Bourque broke a scoreless tie in the bottom of the third with a one-out single to score Nate Vandersea, who led off the inning with a single.
• It stayed that way until UofR tied it up in the fifth when a walk and two-base sacrifice bunt, and then a ground ball, scored the tying run.
• A throwing error and two bunt singles from Vandersea and Quinn McDonald in Skidmore's half of the fifth loaded the bases. The Thoroughbreds settled for one, but still regained the lead, on a Leiderman sac fly.
• Modlin entered in a jam in the sixth – bases-loaded, one out – before getting a foul out and ground ball to wiggle out of trouble.
• Then, in the bottom of the sixth, a two-run Vandersea double and a McDonald sac fly one batter later made it 5-1.
• Modlin worked out of another jam in the eighth sandwiched around 1-2-3 innings in the seventh and ninth to finish off the save.
• Each of Rochester's eight hits in the game were singles.
• Vandersea's two-RBI double in the sixth was the game's only extra-base hit.

 
UP NEXT

• The Liberty League Tournament will take place Thursday 8-10 at either Ithaca or Skidmore.