WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – The Skidmore College baseball team scored in innings five-through-eight and held the host Ephs scoreless over the first six innings in an 8-3 non-league win at Williams on Wednesday afternoon.
- Skidmore (14-7) used six pitchers that combined to limit the Ephs to six hits (all singles) with nine strikeouts.
- Grayden Harris started and pitched three scoreless innings with three shutouts.
- Nick Palovich piggy-backed with two more scoreless frames with three more punchouts.
- Colby Bohnen pitched a clean sixth before the Ephs finally got on the scoreboard in the seventh.
- Lucas Meinelt got through the seventh and worked around a pair of base runners in the eighth to stick Williams at two before it got one on a bases-loaded walk in the ninth.
- Jack Collins came in to strike out the last batter with the bases loaded to pick up the save.
- The Thoroughbreds plated the game's first run on a Quinn McDonald sacrifice fly in the third, then scored four in the fifth, one in the sixth, and another in the seventh to take a 7-0 lead.
- McDonald cracked an RBI single in the fifth to make it 3-0 and scored right after Eddie Galvao double on a Collins ground out. EJ Stefanelli, who had three hits, brought in the fourth run of the inning with an infield single.
- A wild pitch with the bases loaded scored Skidmore's sixth run in the sixth, and Holden Caney drove in Mac Cady, who singled and stole second, in the seventh.
- Williams drew three walks, including one with the bases loaded, leading to its first runs in the bottom half of the second.
- Skidmore answered with its eighth and final run on a Stefanelli opposite-field knock.
- Stefanelli was 3-for-4 with a walk and two RBI.
- McDonald also drive in two. He was 2-for-4.
- Galvao and Landon Schwartzman both scored twice.
- Anthony Lods was 3-for-3 with a walk for Williams.
- The first three of nine Eph pitchers combined to hold Skidmore without a hit over the first three innings. Â Â Â
UP NEXT
Skidmore will head to Ithaca for a three-game, non-division series against the Bombers beginning Friday at 3 p.m. with a single game, followed by a doubleheader on Saturday.