SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – In a marathon day at Ferrari Field, the Skidmore College baseball team dropped a doubleheader to Vassar as the Brewers took the weekend series, 2-1. The visitors won game one in 12 innings, 5-4, before holding on for a 6-5 win in game two.
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Before the games, Skidmore honored its seven graduating seniors:
Landon Schwartzman,
Nate Vandersea,
Sam Dalsimer,
Eddie Galvao,
Grayden Harris,
Zach Dines, and
Quinn Hocom.
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Game 1 – Vassar 5, Skidmore 4 (12 inn.)
- Biskupiak hit a go-ahead single in the top of the 12th inning with two outs to give Vassar the lead.
- Skidmore (16-12, 4-8 Liberty League) stranded the potential tying run at third base in the bottom half of the 12th.
- Holden Caney had three hits, including a double, in four at bats to lead Skidmore offensively. Mac Cady went 2-for-5 with a double, walk, and three stolen bases including both second and third in the 12th.
- Quinn McDonald was 2-for-5 with a triple, RBI, and run scored.
- Jensen Bergman was 3-for-5 for Vassar with a homer, double, two RBI, and three runs scored.
- Skidmore scored the game's first three runs over the first two innings and eventually carried a 4-2 lead into the eighth.
- A two-out error scored Vassar's third run in the eighth. Then, down to their last strike, Fox-Fernandez brought in the tying run on a single up the middle. Â
- The Thoroughbreds put a runners at second and third with nobody out in the 10th but were unable to punch across the winning run.
- Sage Roy-Burman got the win with two shutout innings of relief for Vassar. He had four strikeouts.
- Jack Collins went 7.2 innings for Skidmore, allowing three runs (two earned) on seven hits. He walked three and struck out four.
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Game 2 – Vassar 6, Skidmore 5
- Two runs in each of the first two innings gave Vassar a 4-0 cushion.
- Cady cut the deficit in half with a two-run homer in the fourth.
- Then, an unearned run in the sixth made it a one-run game.
- After a rocky start, Chase Siegel allowed just one hit over his final four innings to keep Skidmore in it. He allowed six hits in total, struck out four, and walked two.
- Nick Palovich tossed 2.2 innings of shutout ball for Skidmore with four punchouts.
- Vassar (11-16, 7-7) rallied for two more runs in the seventh, but Skidmore limited the damage as Palovich got out of the bases-loaded jam with a pick off of the trail runner at first.
- Caney homered two batters into the bottom of the seventh two make it a two-run game. It was the start of four-straight Skidmore hits. Galvao singled to center to score Vandersea from second and make it 6-5.
- The Thoroughbreds left a pair of runners on base in the eighth before going down in order in the ninth.
- The 3-through-5 Vassar hitters went a combined 6-for-15 with four RBI.
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Skidmore will travel to MCLA on Wednesday for a 3:30 p.m. start in North Adams.