Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.--The Skidmore College softball team rallied from three runs down to earn a 6-4 win and split with Rensselaer in a Liberty League doubleheader played at Wagner Park. The Engineers won the first game 10-4.
 
The Thoroughbreds are 4-10 overall and 1-1 in league play, beating RPI for the first time since the 2010 season. The Engineers are 9-7 and 1-1.
 
In the first game, RPI started quickly with four runs in the first, keyed by two-run triple by Tori Hunt and a two-run home run from Taylor Ten Eyck.  Skidmore responded with a pair of runs in its half of the inning. Lauren Gorstein drove in a two with a deep single.
 
The Engineers made it 5-1 in the third. Jena Servidone led off with a double and scored on a Morgan Ten Eyck double.   The Thoroughbreds battled back again in the bottom of inning with an RBI double by Abby Shea, who later scored on a two-out full count single by Cassie Fishkin to cut it to 5-4.
 
RPI broke the game open with  two unearned runs in the fourth and three runs in the sixth for the 10-4 final.  Morgan Kollmeier had a solo home run in the sixth.
 
For Skidmore, Shea finished 2-4 with two runs and Brittany Osborn was 2-3.  Lauren Fortunato went the distance, allowing 10 runs (six earned) on 11 hits.
 
The Engineers had seven out of 11 hits go for extra bases.  Danielle Balestrini, Morgan Ten Eyck, and Courtney McArthur were each 2-4. Kristina Weltzin had the complete game win, allowing four runs on eight hits, with one walk and eight strikeouts.
 
RPI went to the long ball again in the second game to take a 3-0 on Servidone's three-run home run in the third inning.
 
The Thoroughbreds battled back again with single runs in the third and fourth to make it 3-2. Fortunato reached on a two-out single in the third, stole second and scored on an error. Back-to-back doubles by pitcher Cassie Fishkin and Mackenzie Whiting accounted for the fourth inning run.
 
Skidmore batted around in the sixth inning, scoring four runs with no outs to go up 6-3. Whitting had a two-run double and Lila Rosenfeld and Sam Skott had one-run doubles. Rosenfeld's double proved to be the game winner.
 
Dani Grange hit RPI's fourth home run of the day, a solo shot in the seventh, for the  6-4 final.
 
Whitting was 2-3 with two doubles and three RBI. Fishkin was 2-2 with a pair of runs. Osborn was 1-3 with a double.  Fishkin earned her third win of the season. She allowed four runs on six hits with two walks and two strikeouts.
 
Morgan Ten Eyck and Grange were 2-3 each. Victoria Hepworth went five innings, plus four batters in the sixth, allowing six runs (five earned) on seven hits and one walk. She struck out seven.
 
Skidmore is back in action Sunday at 1 p.m. in a non-league pair with Cazenovia.  RPI is at Oneonta on April 8.