AUBURNDALE, Fla. – Senior Greg Echeverria threw a complete game, but the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) baseball dropped its Spring Trip opener to Curry College, 3-0, on Saturday. With the win, the Colonels improve to 1-3, while the Engineers fall to 1-6.

Echeverria (Longmeadow, MA/Longmeadow) allowed three runs (1 earned) on five hits in 9.0 innings. He struck out 12 without a walk. Curry starter, David Griffin (Hanover, MA/Hanover), went 9.0 as well, surrendering just six hits, with eight strikeouts and a walk.

The Colonels scored the game's first run in the top of the 3rd, when centerfielder Kyle Connors (Stoughton, MA/Stoughton) singled to lead off the inning, before coming around to score on a wild pitch.

Curry took advantage of a pair of RPI errors in the 4th to double its advantage (2-0). Connors drove in the second run with a ground ball back to Echeverria.

A throwing error in the top of the 9th capped the scoring for the Colonels, as pinch runner John Cave came home from third.

Nick Crivello went 2 for 3 for Curry, while John Arens (Milton, MA/BC High) was 1 for 4.

Six different RPI players collected hits in the game, including senior Mike Croke (South Hadley, MA/South Hadley), who went 1 for 3 with a bunt single. Junior Sam Lawrence (Chicago, IL/Univ. of Chicago High School) and sophomore J.T. Sawyer (Johnsonville, NY/Hoosic Valley) had doubles.

UP NEXT:
RPI takes on Stockton tomorrow at 3:30pm.
The Colonels face Westefield State in a doubleheader tomorrow at 1:30pm.