CLERMONT, Fla. - Freshman Jaime Cleasby earned her first collegiate shutout as the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) softball team defeated the University of Rutgers-Newark, 4-0, on Wednesday at Hancock Sports Complex. The Engineers, who fell to the University of Scranton, 4-2, earlier in the day are now 8-2 on the season.

Cleasby surrendered just six hits over the 7.0-inning complete game, striking out four without a walk. She induced nine fly ball and seven ground ball outs and threw just 78 pitches. Rutgers-Newark starter Morgan Walizer went 3.0 innings, allowing three runs on four hits. She had three strikeouts.

Junior Victoria Greco drove in RPI's first run with a sacrifice fly in the top of the third. Freshman Cam Caswell doubled the Engineers' advantage, later in the inning, with a single to left that plated junior Rebecca Kienz. Caswell then came around to score on an RBI-double off the bat of senior captain Stephanie Caudle.

Rensselaer scored its final run in the top of the sixth, on a double by junior Chelsea Elliot that brought home classmate Christine White.

The Engineers face Stockton (10:30am) and Gordon (12:30pm) tomorrow in their final two games in Florida.