FORT MYERS, Fla. – The Skidmore College baseball team ended its spring trip 8-2 after a doubleheader split with Geneva College on Saturday. The Thoroughbreds claimed game one, 7-0, behind a masterful Jack Collins start, and a six-run bottom of the first. The Golden Tornadoes won game two, 8-6.
 
Skidmore went 8-2 in Florida, representing the program's most-ever wins on its southern trip.
 
Game 1 – Skidmore 7, Geneva 0 (7 inn.)

• Collins tossed six innings of shutout ball and the Thoroughbreds scored six runs on five hits in the bottom of the first inning to take game one.
• All three of the hits Geneva had were singles. The Golden Tornadoes had two of them in the third and their last in the fifth. Collins retired the last six batters he faced and Alex Tavano pitched a 1-2-3 seventh to close it out.
• The Skidmore runs were scored by seven different players, and five drove in runs. Eddie Galvao and Nick Duryea both went 2-for-3 with a walk and a run scored. Duryea also drove in a run. He and Luke Warzynski, Matthew O'Neill, and Jack Riva all had run-scoring singles.
• The Thoroughbreds sent 12 batters to the plate in the first as a passed ball and later a two-out error were the catalyst for the big rally. Holden Caney drive in one with a double in addition to the three other RBI singles.
• Skidmore added one more in the second when Riva singled in Cady, who doubled to lead off the inning.
• The Golden Tornadoes had runners in scoring position in the second, third, and fifth off Collins, but were unable to bring any around to score.
• Geneva pitchers surrendered only one earned run. Cayden Cribbs tossed three innings of two-hit, shutout ball.

 
Game 2 – Geneva 8, Skidmore 6 (7 inn.)

• An infield error allowed the only run of the game through the first three and a half innings – a single Skidmore run in the top of the third.
• Geneva scored three in the fourth, four in the fifth, and one more in the sixth. Skidmore countered with a three-run fifth and two in the sixth, but went down in order in the seventh as Geneva picked up the split.
• Skidmore had only five hits, but four of them went for extra bases.
• Caney, who homered twice on Friday, went deep again in the sixth for a two-run blast that pulled the Thoroughbreds to within one.
• Kirk Bearjar came through with a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the sixth for the 8-6 final.
• The Golden Tornadoes plated all three of their runs in the fourth with two outs.
• Four of Skidmore's five hits came in the fifth. Quinn McDonald hit a leadoff double and scored on a Nate Vandersea single through the left side. Then, a two-out error extending the inning for a Galvao triple and a Collins double that gave Skidmore a 4-3 lead.
• Simon Wehr then came up with the big blow of the game, as he launched a three-run homer in the bottom of the fifth that gave Geneva the lead for good.

 
UP NEXT
Skidmore is scheduled to open at home on Wednesday, March 18 against Middlebury before opening Liberty League play next weekend against Bard.