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TROY, N.Y. – Senior righthander Andrew Mondo earned his school-record tying 25th career victory in game one, and the Rensselaer baseball team went on to split a Liberty League doubleheader against Vassar College at Robison Field. Winning game one, 10-1, the Engineers are now 17-11 overall and 7-7 in the Liberty League. The Brewers, who won game two, 9-7, are now 7-21 (3-15 Liberty League).

Mondo (Clifton Park, NY/Shenedehowa) allowed one run on three hits over 5.0 innings to earn the win in game one. He struck out three, while walking just one.

Rensselaer scored at least a run in each of the first four innings, taking a 9-0 lead into the top of the fourth. Senior Camden Mamigonian (Dover, NH/Dover) jump-started the offense in the top of the first, when he launched a three-run homer to left – his forth of the season.

The Brewers were able to find the scoreboard in the fifth, when Sophomore Liam Lee (East Hampton, NY/East Hampton) lifted a sacrifice fly to left, platting junior third baseman David Ringold (Seattle, WA/Ballard).

The Engineers answered the Vassar run in the bottom of the fifth, scoring a run on an RBI-ground out by senior first baseman Andrew Krushelnyski (Bloomfield Hills, MI/Brother Rice). Freshman Kyle Lavigne walked to lead-off the inning and went all the way to third on a single by senior catcher Patrick Reardon (Troy, NY/LaSalle Institute). Krushelnyski then grounded out to first to drive in the run.

In game two, the clubs traded two-run first innings as Ringold got the visitors going with a two-run single in the top of the frame. The Engineers evened the score on a Brewers error and an RBI-base hit off the bat of freshman right fielder Sujith Murali (Plainsboro, NJ/W. Winsor South).

After the Brewers took a one-run lead (3-2) in the top of the fourth, Rensselaer came right back to even things in the bottom of the inning on a sac-fly by freshman shortstop Jonny Rio (Maplewood, NJ/Columbia).

Rensselaer took a brief 4-3 lead in the bottom of the sixth on another sac-fly by Rio, but the Brewers delivered the decisive blow in the top of the seventh, scoring six times on five hits. Junior Joe Castilla (Weston, FL/Archbishop McCarthy) capped the rally with a three-run home run to left.

RPI came back with two in the bottom of the stanza, and one in ninth, but the comeback fell short.

Brewers starter Lawrence Flicker (Plantation, FL/Saint Thomas Aquinas) picked up the win allowing six runs (four earned) on 10 hits in 6.1 innings. Shortstop Michael Perrone (Seaford, NY/Seaford) went 4 for 5 with two runs scored.

The Engineers were led offensively by Murali, who finished game two 5 for 5 with a run and two runs batted in.

Both teams square off in a twin bill, tomorrow afternoon in Poughkeepsie (12pm).