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CLERMONT, Fla. – Senior Jen Bach hit two home runs and threw a complete game to lead the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) softball team to a pair of wins over Pine Manor (21-0) and Loras College (5-2), this afternoon. With the wins, the Engineers have now won four games in a row and are 5-3 on the young season.

Bach (Lansdale, PA/Gwynedd Mercy Academy) paced the offense in the day's first victory over Pine Manor, going 3 for 4 with a double, a home run, two runs scored and four runs batted in. Sophomore Gillian McCarthy (Worthington, OH/Thomas Worthington) also had a big game, going 4 for 4 with a double, two triples and seven RBI.

Freshman pitcher Charlene Osmanski (Elmhurst, IL/York) went the full 5.0 innings to earn the win, allowing just two hits and two walks.

PM: Kirylo, Doehler, Nielsen, Michelle Campbell and Nielsen, Carusone
RPI: Osmanski and McNeil

PM: 0-0-0 0-0-x x 0-2-3
RPI: 9-5-6 1-x-x x 21-10-0

In game two, Bach surrendered just two runs on four hits over 7.0 innings for the complete game victory as RPI won, 5-2, over Loras.

Trailing by two (2-0) in the third inning, Bach delivered her second home run of the day and first of the game knot the game at 2-2. Osmanski and senior captain Genevieve Falco (Seaford, NY/Seaford) each picked up sacrifice flies in the fifth, to put the Engineers up for good.

McCarthy continued her hot hitting, going 2 for 4 with a double and a run scored, while sophomore Caitlin McGivern (Bethlehem, PA / Notre Dame) finished 3 for 4.

LC: Sabatini, Popovich and Sullivan
RPI: Bach and Heller

RPI: 0-0-2 0-3-0 0 5-11-1
LC: 2-0-0 0-0-0 0 2-4-2