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TROY, N.Y. – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) knocked out 11 runs on 11 hits and took advantage of six errors to defeat Williams College, 11-7 in a darkness-shortened second game of a non-league doubleheader at Doris Robison Field. The Ephs captured the first game, 7-4.

Game two saw RPI (19-5) get on the board first, scoring three times in its first at bat. Senior Sara Finkbeiner (Napanoch, NY/Ellenville) singled to lead off the inning and scored on a single by Jen Bach (Landsdale, PA/Gwynedd-Mercy Academy). # Julianne Bass# (Costa Mesa, CA/Newport Harbor) followed with a base hit and both runners scored on a single and an error.

Williams (13-14) scored its first run in the second inning. Clean-up hitter Morgan Simpson (McLean, VA/Potomac School) opened the inning with a double. After a sacrifice bunt moved her to third base, she scored on a groundout by pitcher Emily Fowler-Cornfeld (St. Louis, MO/Clayton). The Red Hawks extended their lead to 4-1 in their half of the second inning on an RBI, hit-and-run single to rightfield by junior Becky Bailey (Rome, NY/Holland Patent).

Simpson drove in the next two runs with a two-run, two-out single to leftfield in the third inning to pull the Ephs within a run, 4-3. Fowler-Cornfield, the next batter, plated two more runs with a triple to right centerfield to give the visitors a 5-4 lead.

RPI came right back with two runs of its own in the bottom of the inning, thanks to a two-run triple to leftfield by sophomore shortstop Alysia Rochminski (Schenectady, NY/Colonie). A bunt single by Finkbeiner scored Rochminski for a 7-5 lead.

The Red Hawks added three unearned runs in the fourth inning for a five-run margin but the Ephs got two back in the fifth with a two-RBI single by senior Libby Copeland-Halperin (New York, NY/Horace Mann). Rensselaer answered with a run before the game was called due to darkness.

Sophomore Felicia Bua (Gilford, NH) earned the win and Bach the save for the Red Hawks, who saw eight batters collect at least one hit. Simpson finished 3 for 3 with three runs and two RBI for the Ephs.

Williams captured the first game by scoring four runs in the seventh inning to break a 3-3 tie. After RPI tied the score in the sixth, the Ephs got a two-run single by senior Becky Sansone (Glen Gardner, NJ/Voorhees) and a two-run double by Fowler-Cornfeld. RPI got one run back in its half of the seventh.

Fowler-Cornfeld finished with three hits and three RBI, while Sansone was 2 for 4 with two runs and two knocked in. Sophomore Mary Beth Daub (Claremont, CA/Claremont) earned the win, allowing two earned runs on four hits with six strikeouts in a complete game effort. Bach suffered the loss for the Red Hawks, her first of the season (5-1).

Rensselaer returns to action on Wednesday for a doubleheader at Middlebury (3pm). The Red Hawks' next home game is Sunday afternoon against Liberty League foe Rochester at 1pm. Williams next plays on Friday at NESCAC foe Amherst beginning at 4:30pm.