SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The Skidmore College baseball team snapped its five-game slide on Wednesday afternoon at Ferrari Field with a 7-3 victory over visiting Vermont State University Castleton.
- Skidmore (11-7) scored four runs in the bottom of the fourth inning to take the lead and held the Spartans scoreless over the final six innings for the win.
- Zach Dines, Colby Bohnen, Alex Tavano, Lucas Meinelt, and Sam Dalsimer combined to hold the visitors without a run and to only four hits after they scored three in the third.
- Bohnen earned the win, his second, by pitching three scoreless innings of relief. He struck out three, walked one, and gave up two hits.
- Will Markwood, Skidmore's starter, struck out three over two scoreless innings to begin the contest.
- Jack Collins hit a patented opposite-field single to bring in a run in the bottom of the first to give Skidmore the lead.
- In the second, after a pair of walks and a wild pitch, Adam Copeland drove in the second run on a ground out.
- Two walks, a Tommie Shaw double, and a pair of steals of third base were the kindling to Castleton's three-run rally to take the lead in the third. Dines came in and loaded the bases with a pair of walks, but limited the damage to three by inducing a fly out to end the inning.
- The Spartans finished 8-for-9 in stolen-base attempts. Â
- In Skidmore's fourth, Nate Graham and Copeland Walked, sandwiched by a Landon Schwartzman single, to load the base with one out. Nate Vandersea got plunked to tie the game, and Schwartzman scored two batters later on a wild pitch. Then, with runners still in scoring position, Mac Cady ripped a double past the outstretched right fielder's glove to bring them both in and make it 6-3.
- Jack Riva doubles and scored in the seventh to make it 7-3 and complete the scoring.
- Collins, Schwartzman, and Vandersea all reached three times for the Thoroughbreds. Collins went 2-for-4 with a walk, while Schwartzman was 2-for-3 with a walk and two runs scored, and Vandersea went 2-for-3 with the HBP. He also stole a pair of bags.
- For Castleton (5-16), Shaw finished 2-for-4 with two stolen bases. Kyle Wilson tossed 2.2 innings of shutout relief after Skidmore took the lead.
UP NEXT
Skidmore will host Westfield State in a non-league doubleheader on Saturday beginning at 12 p.m. A brief ceremony honoring Ferrari Field's donors will commence at 11:45 a.m.