TROY, NY- The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) softball team opened Liberty League play with a pair of victories against Skidmore today at Doris Robison Field.

Callista Adorno went 4-for-4 with two RBI and two runs scored in the game one win. Alex Ledger, Caroline Peel, and Mikayla O'Neill all produced two hits as well.

Adorno put the No. 18 nationally ranked Engineers ahead early with a first-inning RBI single that plated Erin Askins. O'Neill extended the lead to 2-0 when she scored Peel with a single in the second inning before Askins knocked home O"Neill in the fourth to make it 3-0.

Peel doubled in Adorno and Cat Worthington drove home Maddy Brooks in the fifth to push the advantage to 5-0.

RPI got three runs in the bottom of the sixth activate the eight-run rule. An RBI double by Adorno and a sacrifice fly by Gabby Comeau highlighted the big inning for the Engineers.

Brooke Sroczinski limited Skidmore to four hits over 6.0 innings to earn the game one win in the circle. Sroczinski struck out five.

Comeau, Peel, and Liv Vizzini led the Engineers with two hits apiece in the finale. 

Vizzini was the offensive catalyst with two RBI, while Adorno, Comeau, Peel, Sydney Speanburg, and Emma Newberry drove in one run each.

Vizzini's RBI double and Speanburg's run-scoring single got things going for RPI in the second inning of game two. Comeau and Vizzini each drove in runs in the fourth as well to stake the Engineers to a 4-0 lead.

Skidmore registered three unearned runs in the top of the fourth before RPI responded with five runs in the bottom of the frame to move the margin to 9-3. Adorno singled, Newberry doubled, and Comeau tripled to all plate runs in the sixth.

Next up, the unbeaten Engineers match up with Williams College for a single contest on Tuesday night.  First pitch is set for 5:00 pm in Williamstown, Mass.