SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The Bard College baseball team was swept in a Liberty League doubleheader at Skidmore on Saturday, 8-4 and 12-3.

Skidmore improves to 12-22 overall and 7-15 in the Liberty League, while the Raptors fall to 9-25 and 4-14. The teams will complete the four-game series on Sunday in Annandale.
 
Skidmore used the long ball and a complete-game effort from Andrew Aikins (Rumson, NJ) to take Game One by a score of 8-4. He gave up four runs (two earned) on seven hits, and fanned two.

Bard scored twice in the top of the first on an RBI groundout by Alec Montecalvo and a two-out RBI single by Mike Pizzuto. It stayed that way until the bottom of the third, when Skidmore drew a pair of two-out walks, and Shawn Klier (Mendham, NJ) homered to right to make it 3-2. The Thoroughbreds didn't trail again.

A two-out, two-run double by Chris Lorenz (Fair Haven, NJ) made it 5-2 in the fourth, and after Bard had trimmed the lead to 5-4, a two-out, two-run homer by Stephen Gilbert (Franklin, MA) in the eighth was the dagger. Gilbert went 3-for-4 with two RBI.
 
Jack Hawke collected two hits for the Raptors.
 
Game Two was 3-3 through three innings, but Skidmore put it away with two in the sixth, two in the seventh and five in the eighth. Will Potter (Charlotte, VT) went 2-for-3 with a double and four RBI.
 
Hawke, David Schlosser and Alec Montecalvo had two hits apiece for Bard.

Sunday's doubleheader starts at noon. Follow it here via Live Stats or Live Video if you can't make it.