Washington, DC --- The WPI softball team continued its offensive onslaught with a 15-3 victory over Gallaudet Thursday afternoon as the team's journey to the Mid-Atlantic region continues.
 
WPI (3-0) earned its third straight victory to begin the year behind a five-inning outing by Kaitlyn Barr (Grosse Pointe Woods, MI) who picked up her first win of the season. Barr allowed just two earned runs and seven hits while sitting down eight by way of the K in her season debut. 
 
Four different Engineers sent a shot out of the park led by Sandy Fairbairn (Norton, MA) who went 2-for-4 on the day with a pair of roundtrippers that garnered three RBIs. Grace Grant (Orlando, FL) added a home run of her own, the first of her WPI career, with a 2-for-4 outing that included a pair of runs scored and a pair of runs driven in. Virginia McKinney (Larchmont, NY) went a perfect 3-for-3 on the day with a duo of RBIs and a run scored. 
 
Olivia Wascher (Noblesville, IN) got the start on the mound for Gallaudet, allowing a pair of hits, three walks and five earned runs without registering an out in the top of the first. She was relieved by Lacey Drolsbaugh (Lansdale, PA) who let up another 10 hits and eight earned runs in Engineers second-straight run-rule victory. 
 
WPI got things going quickly putting seven up on the scoreboard in the first inning. Lucy Latour (North Dighton, MA) started things off with a walk, stole second and came around to score on Fairbairn's first homer of the day. Riley O'Brien (Wynantskill, NY) and Emma Nagy (Monroe, WA) also drew free passes and came across one batter later on a Destiny Lum (Kahalu'u, HI) homer to left centerfield making it a 5-0 game and forcing the pitching change. 
 
Grant kept things going with a double to left scoring in the next at bat via a pair of passed balls while Suzannah Figler (Baltimore, MD) drew a walk and advanced all the way to third on the passed ball coming across for the seventh run of the inning on a McKinney single up the middle. 
 
Gallaudet got one back in the bottom of the first and another in the second, but WPI erased those runs as Figler scored yet again on a duo of passed balls and Meg Sherwood (Norfolk, MA) crossed behind a McKinney double to right to make it a 9-2 ballgame. 
 
After a 1-2-3 bottom of the third, Fairbairn netted her second homer of the game with an inside the park homer to start off the inning. O'Brien singled through the right side and was replaced on the basepaths by Mia Francisco (Hudson, NH) who touched the plate one batter later on a Nagy blast. Lum then reached on a throwing error, and was brought home by a Grant shot to left to make it a 14-2 game. Ava Laughlin (Chester Springs, PA) brought in the final run of the inning, and the game, when she reached on a dropped fly ball to left, bringing home McKinney. 
 
Gallaudet put one more on the board but that was all she wrote as the Engineers came away with the run-rule victory. 
 
The Engineers are back in action on Friday, March 14 when they take on No. 13 Salisbury at 2:30 pm in Salisbury, MD. Gallaudet looks to bounce back against Nazareth on Sunday, March 16 at 2 pm as the Bison's spring break trip commences.