SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The Skidmore College softball team completed its 10-game homestand on Monday afternoon with a sweep of visiting Oneonta. The Thoroughbreds won the first game in six innings, 13-4, before holding on for a 4-3 win in the nightcap.

• Skidmore is 10-8 heading into Liberty League play this weekend.

 
Game 1 – Skidmore 13, Oneonta 4 (6 inn.)

• Madison Bonham hit another game-ending home run in the bottom of the sixth, a two-run shot, to put the Thoroughbreds up by nine and enact the eight-run rule.
• Skidmore scored five times in the sixth and plated 10 out of the contest's final 11 runs.
• Bonham was one of four Thoroughbreds to drive in a pair of runs. Shew as 2-for-3 with a walk.
• Natalie Mayne was 2-for-4 with a triple, double, and two RBI.
• Cortney Somsky went 3-for-3 with a walk and two RBI.
• Elle Harrison hit her first-career home run - an inside the park homer in the fourth. She was 2-for-3 with an RBI single in the fifth.
• Nate' Burley scored three runs on a 2-foir-4 performance.
• Rachel Monser reached and scored twice with a pair of stolen bases.
• Mallory Allen earned the win, her sixth, with another complete-game effort. She allowed four runs, three earned, on nine hits. She did not walk a batter and struck out two.
• Oneonta (2-16) struck first with a run in the second, countered by a Skidmore run in the bottom half and four in the third to take a 5-1 lead.
• The visitors scored a pair on a Jamie Cardello double in the fourth, but the Thoroughbreds responded with two in the fourth and another in the fifth for a commanding 8-3 lead.
• An error brought in the Red Dragon's fourth run in the sixth before Skidmore rallied for four hits culminating in the Bonham homer to end it.

 
Game 2 – Skidmore 4, Oneonta 3

• Skidmore batted around in the bottom of the first inning to score all four of its runs. The inning was fueled by four walks and a hit batter. Burley walked, Mayne singled, and Monser walked to load the bases. Somsky bounced into a force out to score one, and then Bonham hit a sacrifice fly for the second run. Lilly Canale walked to load the bases again before Caitlyn Dion got hit by a pitch and Harrison drew another walk for the fourth run.
• There was only one run scored by either side the rest of the way.
• In the top of the first, the Red Dragons plated a pair. Kayla Kean had an RBI ground out, and Eva Blaney hit an opposite-field run-scoring single.
• An infield throwing error to begin the top of the fourth inning led to Oneonta's third run on a Riley McDonnell ground out with the pinch runner Millie Reed on third.
• Mayne, Skidmore's pitcher, and Harrison, the centerfielder, held the Red Dragons off the board the rest of the way. Harrison made a pair of high-leverage catches in front of the fence for the second out of the fifth inning and then the last out of the sixth.
• Mayne worked a 1-2-3 seventh to close it out.
• Mayne surrendered three runs, two earned, on eight hits. She walked one and struck out four. Oneonta did not have any extra-bases hits or stolen bases.
• Oneonta's Caitlin McTiernan settled in after the big first. She allowed only two hits to Skidmore with only two base runners after the first inning.

 
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Skidmore will visit Rensselaer on Saturday for a Liberty League doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m.