The St. Lawrence University softball team fell in back-to-back games to Rensselaer Saturday afternoon on the road, as they continue through the back half of their conference schedule.

The Saints are now .500 across the board, possessing a 14-14 record overall and are 6-6 in Liberty League play entering the final week of the regular season.
 

---

Game 1: St. Lawrence 0, Rensselaer 6

The game began as a defensive chess match, with neither team generating any offense for the first four innings of the contest. St. Lawrence did get two runners on base in the third, with Maeve Thompson and Allison Kloft reaching base between two backwards K's, but a strikeout ended the Saints' threat.

The Engineers finally broke through with the game's first runs in a big way in the bottom of the fifth inning, when they finally got to Saints starting pitcher Marleigh Monroe with back to back two-run knocks off the bats of Olivia Termi and Addison Shaffer. That made it 4-0 RPI.

They plated two more runs in the sixth to make it 6-0, which held as the final score after the Saints went down in order in the top of the seventh.

Monroe took the loss for the Saints in the circle, allowing six runs – four of them earned – on eight hits while walking three batters and striking out three. She went six complete for another complete-game outing, her ninth of the season. She ranks second overall in the conference in complete games.

Leah VerSchneider had the sole multi-hit outing of the game for the Scarlet and Brown, going 2-for-3 with a double in her final at-bat.
 

---

Game 2: St. Lawrence 0, Rensselaer 1

Another gritty game ensued in the back half of the twin bill, with Izzy Melanson making her first start since April 11 returning from an injury, and only surrendered one run in the complete-game effort in the circle. That came in the third, when Rensselaer strung together three straight one-out singles, then later received a Shaffer two-out RBI walk to make it 1-0.

St. Lawrence got runners into scoring position twice in the final two innings, when Caelen Jahnle reached on a fielding error and Kloft singled to get her to second, but a pop out and lineout ended the sixth-inning threat. In the seventh, Emily Siansky tripled down the right field line to put herself 60 feet away with one out, but the next two Saints were retired to end the game 1-0.

Melanson finished the game with one earned run and one walk while surrendering seven hits in six innings pitched. Kloft had the team lead in hits in the second half of the twin bill, going 2-for-3.
 

---

Up Next:

St. Lawrence begins the week with a twin bill at Oswego State on Wednesday, April 29, before battling for Liberty League tournament positioning with Skidmore, as they host the Thoroughbreds for their final conference weekend on senior day. The games are set for Saturday, May 2.