SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The Skidmore College softball team racked up 14 hits and 12 runs in the second game of a doubleheader with Plattsburgh State to salvage a split after dropping the first game in eight innings.

• Rachel Monser finished the day 5-for-8 with two doubles and four RBI.
• Madison Bonham and Cortney Somsky both homered for the Thoroughbreds, and Natalie Mayne registered three hits on the day and got the win in the circle in game two.
• Skidmore is 8-8 with its second split of the weekend.
• Plattsburgh State is 6-7.

 
Game 1 – Plattsburgh 8, Skidmore 7 (8 inn.)

• Bonham hit a go-ahead three-run home run in the bottom of the sixth to give Skidmore a one-run lead, but the visitors send the game into extras when they scored the tying run with two outs in the top of the seventh. Skidmore nailed the potential go-ahead run at the plate on the play.
• Then, in the eighth, Sara Isaacs hit a two-strike pitch over the fence to put the Cardinals back up by two.
• Skidmore plated the placed runner in the eighth, but went down 1-2-3 to end it.
• Plattsburgh scored five in the second and then not again until the seventh as the thoroughbreds outscored the Cardinals 6-0 in the middle innings with two in the fourth, one in the fifth, and three in the sixth.
• Sam Waters was 2-for-3 with two stolen bases for Skidmore. Monser and Bonham were both 2-for-4, with Bonham accounting for four out of Skidmore's seven RBI.
• Isaacs went 3-for-4 for Plattsburgh.
• Mallory Allen struck out six in the complete-game effort for Skidmore.
• Morgan Ormerod went the distance as well for Plattsburgh.

 
Game 2 – Skidmore 12, Plattsburgh 4 (5 inn.)

• Mayne and Monser hit back-to-back run-scoring doubles in the fifth to end the game early. Somsky led off the inning with her first-career home run.
• Skidmore's lead was one, 5-4, when it took command with three in the fourth. Waters tripled and scored on a Lulu Mickle sacrifice fly. Later, Nate' Burley smacked a two-RBI double to make it 8-4.
• Somsky went 3-for-3 with two runs scored.
• Mayne and Monser both drove in three runs. Monser went 3-for-4, while Mayne was 2-for-3 with a walk and two runs scored.
• Mickle drove in three as well.
• Mayne surrendered two earned runs in her first start of the season. She allowed just four hits and one walk to the Cardinal offense.
• After scoring one to tie the game in the first, Skidmore took a 5-1 lead with four in the second highlighted by a two-run single by Mickle and RBI singles from both Mayne and Monser.
• Plattsburgh pulled to within a run in the third when Isaac went deep again - this time a three-run job.
• Skidmore scored the last seven to finish off its second run-rule win of the weekend.

NEXT UP
Skidmore is right back on Monday to host Oneonta for a pair at Wagner Park starting at 2:30 p.m.