SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) women's lacrosse team bounced back with a 16-12 Liberty League win at Skidmore on this afternoon at Wachenheim Field. 

RPI produced a balanced offensive performance with seven different goal scorers, led by Camille Stackhouse and Abigail Couzens, who each finished with four goals. Audrey Silverman powered the playmaking with a team-high three assists (plus two goals), while Beckett Houston added two goals, Emily Speck scored twice, and Kacey Pritts and Quinn Wollard rounded out the scoring with one goal apiece. In goal, Halley Feaga turned in a strong 60-minute effort with 11 saves to secure the victory. 

Skidmore struck first with a quick response after RPI opened the scoring. Silverman put the Engineers on the board at 9:56 of the first quarter off an assist from Stackhouse, but the hosts answered with four of the next five goals to take a 4-2 lead after one. Couzens kept RPI within one with an unassisted finish in the middle of the second, but Skidmore scored three times in the final 6:05 of the period to build momentum heading to the second. 

The Thoroughbreds extended the run early in the second, pushing the advantage to 6-2, before RPI flipped the game with a key surge. Stackhouse started the comeback at 12:45 off a Silverman feed, and Couzens followed with a free-position goal a minute later to make it 6-4. After Skidmore answered twice, the Engineers closed the half with a four-goal burst—Houston finished a Silverman assist, Couzens buried another, and Houston added her second with under a minute to go in the frame on a Pritts helper. Despite Skidmore scoring with 16 seconds remaining, RPI carried a manageable 9-7 deficit into halftime. 

RPI took control coming out of the break, winning the third quarter 5-2 to move in front for good. Couzens ignited the rally just 21 seconds into the period off an assist from Kira Abdelsayed, and after Skidmore briefly stretched the margin to three, RPI responded with four straight to grab a 12-11 lead. Stackhouse scored twice in the frame (including a free-position goal), Pritts converted a man-up goal at 9:45, and Silverman capped the run with an unassisted marker at 2:21. 

The Engineers pulled away early in the fourth. Emily Speck struck twice in a 66-second span, first finishing a Silverman assist and then scoring unassisted, to push the RPI lead to 14-11. Skidmore got one back at 7:24, but RPI answered again on special teams, as Wollard scored a man-up goal off an Emily Speck assist at with under five minutes remaining. 

RPI finished 3-for-4 on free-position chances and scored three man-up goals, while limiting turnovers to just three combined in the second half. The Engineers also went 16-for-18 on clears.

The Engineers take this weekend off before traveling to Boston to face St. Lawrence on Saturday, September 28 at Jack Berry Field at MIT.