Box Score
Box Score

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. – Junior Camden Mamigonian went 4 for 5 with three runs and five runs batted in to lead the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) baseball team to a 16-5 win over Salve Regina. The Red Hawks won their second straight game to improve to 3-4, while the Seahawks fall to 1-9, including nine straight losses.

With RPI leading 2-1, Mamigonian (Dover, NH/Dover) opened up the lead with a long three-run home run to left-centerfield in the fourth inning. Rensselaer scored three more in the fifth inning on a three-run home run to rightfield by junior Patrick Reardon (Troy, NY/LaSalle Institute) for a 6-1 advantage. The Red Hawks took command with a five-run seventh inning.

Reardon finished with two hits, three runs and three RBI and senior centerfielder Sean Wilkes (Troy, NY/Catholic Central) collected three hits with a run. Sophomore Thomas Jebb (Ticonderoga, NY/Ticonderoga) went 2 for 5 with a run scored and three RBI.

Senior Andy Opperman (Oneida, NY/Vernon-Verona-Sherrill) earned the win on the mound, striking out nine while allowing three earned runs in 5.1 innings of work.

Rensselaer 1 0 1 3 3 1 5 0 2 - 16 19 1
Salve Regina 0 1 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 - 5 10 1

RPI: Opperman (Win), Jeremy Lockwood-Menard (6th), Andrew Biederman (7th), Mike Cieszko (9th) and Reardon. SR: Patrick Quinn (Loss), Jesse Outhouse (5th), Zackary Moreau (7th), Ryan Galliher (7th), Laurence Liggett (8th) and Dave Miller, Brendan Tapley (8th).