TROY, NY - The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) baseball team took one of two from Keene State today on Karl Steffen Field.

The Engineers claimed a 17-11 victory in a high-scoring game one before falling 6–5 in the second contest of the afternoon.

11 of the Engineer's 18 hits in the opener went for extra bases, with Aidan Hicks, Julian Scarpa, and Kameron Levesque all going deep.

Hicks, Kameron Levesque, Ayush Krishnappa, and Jack Mullins all had three hits each in the win.

Krishnappa led the lineup with five RBI, while Hicks, Levesque, and Ian Oehlschlaeger drove in three runs each.

Hicks and Mullins scored three runs and Jon Primerano, Julian Scarpa, Walker Abdallah, and Levesque crossed home two times apiece.

Hicks went deep for a solo home run in the bottom of the first before doubling home Mullins in the third. Scarpa would follow two batters later with a blast to right that brought home Hicks.

The Engineers scored six runs in the sixth thanks to bases-loaded doubles by  Oehlschlaeger and Krishnappa that each generated three runs.

Levesque drove in three runs in a seventh inning that saw the Engineers bat around the order. Levesque started the inning with a solo home run to left before lacing a two -run single later in the frame. Hicks had an RBI single and Krishnappa drove in two runs as well in the frame.

RPI tacked on three more in the eighth, as 

Mullins doubled home Abdallah and Charlie Lapp plated Mullins with a single.

Oehlschlaeger, Lapp, and Hicks logged multi-hits efforts in the second contest of the day. Oehlschlaeger finished 3-for-4 with a walk, two RBI and two runs scored. Hicks had two RBI and Levesque drove in a run in the finale as well.

Levesque and Oehlschlaeger had run-scoring singles in the first and third innings, respectively, while Hicks brought in two runs with a single in the bottom in the seventh.

The Engineers were trailing two when  Oehlschlaeger registered a solo home run in the last half of the ninth. RPI threatened with the potential tying and winning runs on base before Keene State closed the door on the one-run win to wrap the series.

RPI will flip around to face Vermont State Castleton in an afternoon doubleheader tomorrow in Troy.