A three-run rally in the ninth inning helped the St. Lawrence baseball team to a 5-3 come-from-behind win and a Liberty League split at Skidmore on Saturday afternoon, as the Thoroughbreds won game one 9-2.

Junior centerfielder Mic Regan led the Saints with a 3-for-5 performance in the win, as it was his single to center that plated the game-winning run in the ninth inning. Michael LeFevre also had a multi-hit game, going 2-for-4.

On the mound, reliever Will Fellows earned his first win of the year after three shutout innings of work; giving up just two hits to the Thoroughbreds. Liam Rogers, who came in to pitch a hitless ninth, also picked up his first save this season.

After Skidmore scored a pair of runs in the bottom of the fifth to snap a 1-1 tie and assume a 3-1 lead, the Saints got one back on a home run to right center by junior Adam Reichel in the top of the seventh to make it 3-2 in favor of the Thoroughbreds.

This set up the Saints comeback in the ninth, which started with Isaac Lewis reaching on an error by the Skidmore shortstop. With one out, Erik Larsen singled to center and then Anthony Butler walked to load the bases for sophomore Beau Yaremko.

Yaremko hit a sac fly to center field to bring Lewis in to score as the game-tying run before Regan drove in Larsen with an RBI single to right. Butler also scored on the play after a throwing error by the Skidmore right fielder to push to the eventual 5-3 margin and the game two win.

In the first game, the Saints had jumped out to an early 1-0 lead in the top of the first on an RBI single by Kyle MacDonald, but Skidmore scored four in the bottom half of the frame and never looked back.

The Saints second run in the second inning came via an RBI groundout by Mic Regan that scored Adam Reichel and cut the Skidmore lead to 4-2.

Skidmore scored three in the third and one each in both the fifth and sixth innings to push to the final score of 9-2 and outhit that Saints 13-5 in the contest.

Sam Downes was the pitcher of record for St. Lawrence in the loss, going four innings and allowing seven runs (five earned) on nine hits with three walks and three strikeouts.
Both Matt Phelan and Robert Iametti pitched an inning of relief and allowed one run.

The Saints and Thoroughbreds square off again on Sunday in Saratoga Springs in the final two games of their four-game conference series.