ITHACA, N.Y. – The Skidmore College baseball team was swept on the road at Ithaca on Saturday afternoon, 5-3 and 8-4.
 
Game 1 – Ithaca 5, Skidmore 3

• Skidmore brought the tying run to the plate in the top of the ninth inning, but Bomber closer Luke Zelinko got the last two outs in the air to end it and even the series.
• Ithaca scored four of its five runs over the first two innings.
• In the first, Camden Laney hit a two-run home run to right to open the scoring. Then, in the second, Ethan Daddabbo singled in the third Ithaca run and scored from first on a Sheldon Jay Walker III double to make it 4-0.
• Landon Schwartzman led off the top of the third with a home run to cut the Skidmore deficit to three, and Ethan Galvao drove a double the opposite way to score Nate Vandersea, who walked and moved to second on a ground out.
• Ithaca settled for one on a bases-loaded, one-out situation in the bottom of the fifth on a Lucas Orlovitz sacrifice fly.
• Quinn McDonald got hit by a pitch with one out in the ninth and Schwartzman walked to bring up the tying run. Holden Caney picked up an RBI on a fly ball to centerfield, but Zelinko induced an infield popup to end it.
• Skidmore managed just three hits against Ithaca pitching – two of them went for extra bases.
• Walker III went 4-for-5 for the Bombers. On the mount, Jack Picozzi went seven innings with nine strikeouts for the win. Zelinko picked up his sixth save.
• On the mound for Skidmore, Grayden Harris did not allow a run over 2.1 innings of relief in also saving the bullpen for game three.

 
Game 2 – Ithaca 8, Skidmore 4

• The Thoroughbreds came back from a 4-1 deficit with three runs in the top of the sixth inning, but the hosts responded with three of their own in the bottom half and another in the eighth to close out the sweep and win the series.
• The Bombers ran out to a 3-0 lead with two runs in the second when Matt Curtis doubled in a pair.
• Orlovitz tripled to lead off the third and came in on an Isaiah Smith single to make it 3-0 in the third.
• The first two in the Skidmore fifth reached before Matthew O'Neill dropped down a bunt single to load the bases. Nate Vandersea then brought in Skidmore's first run on a sacrifice fly.  
• An error in the bottom of the fifth led to an unearned Ithaca run to make it 4-1.
• In the sixth, Skidmore recorded three off its seven hits, including a Mac Cady RBI single, to make it 4-2. Three of the next four hitters walked with an O'Neill sacrifice fly in between, to tie it up at four.
• The Bombers then rallied with two outs in the bottom of the sixth to score three and take the lead back for good.
• Cady scored two out of Skidmore's four runs and stole a base. Jack Collins went 2-for-4 with a walk.
• Cooper Albert struck out six Skidmore hitters over 3.1 shutout innings of relief for the win for Ithaca.

 
UP NEXT
Skidmore will host Utica on Tuesday for a non-league doubleheader at Ferrari Field beginning at 2 p.m. before getting back to divisional play next weekend against Vassar.