Arlington, VA --- The WPI softball team piled on 15 hits and nine runs in game one of the day to come away with the shutout victory while in game two, the Engineers built up a quick two run lead in the top of the first putting up at least a run in every frame en route to the 10-2 win five-inning.
 
WPI (2-0) took both games of its season-opening doubleheader against Marymount (VA) (3-9) the third time in the last four seasons that the Engineers have come away with a season opening doubleheader sweep.
 
Naomi Boldebuck (Billerica, MA) picked up the shutout victory in game one, her fourth career clean sheet while Sofia Knopf (Plymouth, MA) earned the game two victory allowing just two hits and a pair of runs.
 
Three different Engineers finished with three hits in game one as Lucy Latour (North Dighton, MA) went 3-for-4 with two runs scored, Destiny Lum (Kahalu?u, HI) was 3-for-4 with a run scored and an RBI and Liz Jordan (Yardley, PA) went 3-for-3 with a run scored. In game two, Emma Nagy (Monroe, WA) went 3-for-4 and along with Latour and Riley O'Brien (Wynantskill, NY), smashed a home run with the trio combining for eight runs batted in.
 
The Engineers finished opening day with five home runs in the sweep.
 
GAME ONE
After five scoreless innings where Boldebuck allowed just three hits, the Engineers turned on their engines in the sixth inning piling on four runs via five hits while adding another five runs in the seventh inning to come away with the season opening, 9-0 victory.
 
Sandy Fairbairn (Norton, MA) started the sixth inning scoring off with a solo shot and after Latour doubled and O'Brien walked, Nagy blasted another roundtripper to boost the WPI lead to four runs.
 
In the bottom of the sixth, Boldebuck sat the Saints down 1-2-3, including her fourth strikeout of the day propelling the team's momentum into a five run seventh inning.
 
Fairbairn started things off with a single moving up to second thanks to Virginia McKinney (Larchmont, NY) and stole third, coming around to score on a Marymount error. Latour followed that up with another double and came around to score on an O'Brien single to left. O'Brien moved up to second on the throw and third on a wild pitch, and after Nagy drew a walk she moved all the way up to third via the wild pitch, as O'Brien came around to score after some errant pitching.
 
Nagy came home on a Lum double, and Lum crossed the plate on a bunt single by Jordan for the ninth and final run of the day.
 
Boldebuck went back out to close things down, and despite Marymount getting its first runner in scoring position on the day, Boldebuck got the final Saint out on a comeback liner to the mound to seal the shutout victory.
 
GAME TWO
Latour kept the hot bat going in game two, kicking things off with a double and eventually coming around to score on a Nagy single to left to make it a 1-0 game. Lum followed that with another single which brought home O'Brien, who reached earlier via a base on balls, to start things off 2-0.
 
After Marymount got one back in the bottom half of the frame, the Engineers added to its total when Latour roped a two-run shot to center to make it a 4-1 game. WPI added another run in the third behind a leadoff homer from Nagy but Marymount answered with a run in the bottom half of the frame as WPI clung to a 5-2 lead after three full innings.
 
Another roundtripper from O'Brien brought home another pair of runs for the Engineers to build up a 7-2 advantage and a Latour fielder's choice drove in McKinney to make it an 8-2 ballgame after four.   The Crimson and Gray added a pair of runs an inning later on a Jordan run-producing single and an O'Brien RBI ground out.
 
The Engineers are back in action on Thursday, March 13 when they head to the nation's capital for a game with Gallaudet (DC) at 3 pm. Marymount will return to the diamond at home on Friday, March 14 with a doubleheader against NYU beginning at Noon.