Skidmore Prevails in Three Playoff Games
The Skidmore College women’s soccer team celebrates after advancing to the Liberty League playoff semifinals. Photo by Matt Milless/Skidmore Athletics.
Women’s Soccer
Ella Stone delivered the game-winning goal to lift the fourth-seeded Skidmore College women’s soccer team past fifth-seeded Rochester Institute of Technology in a hard-fought 1-0 shutout battle and advance onto Friday’s Liberty League semifinals. The victory marked the first Liberty League Playoff victory for the women’s soccer squad since 2011. The Thoroughbreds will battle top-seeded Ithaca on Friday on the road at 1:30 p.m.
Men’s Soccer
Will Devall stopped a pair of penalty kicks and Edo Ferrari scored the clincher as the Skidmore College men’s soccer team advanced to the Liberty League semifinal with a dramatic penalty-kick victory over visiting Ithaca on Tuesday afternoon. The third-seeded Thoroughbreds will next take on No. 2 St. Lawrence on Friday. The winner will advance to the championship on Sunday.
Field Hockey
Colby Paul struck late in the third while Victoria Bodnar recorded her tenth career shutout as the fifth-seeded Skidmore College field hockey team came out victorious in the Liberty League Tournament First Round against fourth-seeded William Smith, blanking the home team 1-0 to advance onto Friday’s semifinals. The Thoroughbreds will now head out to top-seeded Ithaca on Friday for a 4 p.m. matchup in the Liberty League Semifinals round.