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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - The Rensselaer softball team bounced back from a 2-0 loss in game one to salvage a Liberty League doubleheader split with Skidmore, winning the nightcap, 4-1.  RPI improves to 23-12 overall and 4-4 in the league.  The Thoroughbreds, who won the first game 2-0, are now 21-14 and 2-6. 

In the second game, RPI got on the board in the first inning when junior Becky Bailey (Rome, N.Y.) scored off of an error to give the visitors a 1-0 advantage.

Skidmore junior Lauren Dinsdale (Harrington Park, N.J.) evened the score in the bottom half of the inning with an RBI double to left center to score Arielle Manstein (Elkins Park, Pa.).

It remained a tie ballgame until the sixth inning when RPI freshman Samantha Paulding (Baldwinsville, N.Y.) drove in classmate Sara Heller (Guilderland, N.Y) with an RBI single to put the Red Hawks up 2-1.  RPI knocked in two more in the seventh to secure the 4-1 victory.

Senior Sara Finkbeiner (Napanoch, N.Y.) threw seven complete innings with two strikeouts in the win for the visitors.

Dinsdale and freshman Lauren Bernstein (White Plains, N.Y.) both doubled for the Thoroughbreds, while Bailey and Bach were both 2-for-4 for at the plate to lead the Red Hawks offense.

Game one featured a pitchers' duel during the first five innings until Skidmore sophomore Caitlin Ketcham (North Clarendon, Vt.) hit her second home run in as many days to drive in the only runs of the contest and give the Thoroughbreds a 2-0 lead going into the seventh inning.

Ketcham and Dinsdale (Harrington Park, N.J.) each had two hits in the win.  Freshman Sam Crose (Assonet, Mass.) picked up her eighth shutout of the season with five strikeouts to improve to 19-10 on the mound.

Sophomore Jen Bach (Landsdale, Pa.) took the loss for the Red Hawks, garnering seven strikeouts in six innings pitched.