Skinner Earns Second Ivy Rookie of the Week Honor

HANOVER, N.H. — The Ivy League announced its weekly award winners for baseball this afternoon, and Dartmouth right-hander Nathan Skinner was chosen as the Rookie of the Week for the second time this season. This is also the fourth time a Big Green pitcher has earned the honor this season.

Needing a strong pitching performance after dropping the first two games of the series to Harvard on Sunday, Dartmouth turned to the freshman from Jacksonville, Florida, and he did not disappoint. Skinner faced one over the minimum through the first three innings as the Big Green offense staked him to an early 7-0 lead. By the time he had thrown 95 pitches over his six innings of work, he enjoyed a 14-2 lead as the Crimson bats had just one earned run on four hits and two walks against him while he struck out a season-high six batters.

Dartmouth went on to win the game, 15-7, giving Skinner his second victory of the season and ending a six-game home skid, the longest for the Big Green in 21 years.

Skinner also took home this award back on March 4 after garnering his first collegiate victory against Fairleigh Dickinson. Other Dartmouth pitchers to be named the Rookie of the Week this year are left-hander Trystan Sarcone on Feb. 25 and right-hander Justin Murray just last week.

The Big Green (12-21) play their final road contest on Wednesday afternoon at Siena (11-24) at 3 p.m.

Notes: Dartmouth has had at least one Rookie of the Week winner in 14 consecutive years while no other Ivy League team has a current streak of longer than five years … seniors Steffen Torgersen (.500/.611/.825, 5 RBIs) and Cole O'Connor (7.0 innings, one run) earned spots on the league honor roll for the week … head coach Bob Whalen needs just three more victories to become the fifth coach in Ivy League history to win 600 games at one school in any sport.

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