TROY, N.Y. – Simmons College fell to RPI 4-2, this afternoon in the Rensselaer Invitational at East Campus Stadium. Rensselaer freshman Taylor Korytko netted the eventual game-winning goal as four different players found the back of the net for the RPI women's soccer team. With the win, the Engineers improve to 1-2-1 on the season, while the Sharks fall to 1-2.

Sophomore Sara Rothschild (Manlius, N.Y.) opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Dribbling in from the right flank, she lofted a left-footed shot inside the far post for a 1-0 lead.

Classmate Alex Shaw (Jamison, PA/Central Bucks HS East) added to the host's lead less than a minute later, when she rifled home a shot from 25 yards out. The tally was the first of her collegiate career and gave RPI a 2-0 advantage. Rensselaer made it 3-0 in the 26th minute, when freshman Taylor Korytko (Tampa, Fla.) headed home her second goal of the season off of a corner kick.

Sharks sophomore striker Desh Perera (Reading, Mass.) decreased RPI's lead to 2 in the 37th minute, when she beat Rensselaer sophomore goalie Stephanie Vargas (Fogelsville, PA) low and inside the left post. It was Perera's second marker in as many games.

Simmons junior midfielder Justine Beauchamp (Exeter, N.H.) netted the first goal of the second half to draw Simmons to within a goal (3-2) in the 68th minute of play. Dribbling across the top of the penalty area, she ripped a shot that grazed the bottom of the crossbar before finding its way into the back of the net.

But the Engineers answered eight minutes later on a goal by sophomore Giana Abballe (Old Tappan, NJ). Junior Kelsey Byrne (Rye, NH/Portsmouth) made a run up the left wing, before slipping a ball across the box for Abballe, who one-timed home her first of the year.

Vargas (1-0) made three saves to earn the win, while the Shark's Ashley Wheeler (Nashua, N.H.) had nine saves at the other end of the pitch.

Simmons Soccer is back action tomorrow afternoon, facing Union College at 12 p.m. at RPI's East Campus Stadium.