TROY, NY - The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) baseball team defeated #25 Brockport 7-6 and Oneonta 8-6 in a split doubleheader today at Karl Steffen Ballpark.
RPI received three hits from three different players in the game one win against the nationally-ranked Golden Eagles, as Aidan Hicks, Jon Primerano, and Walker Abdallah each went 3-for-4.
Hicks, Abdallah, and Charlie Lapp scored two times each, while Prmerano and Ian Oehlschlaeger were responsible for two RBI apiece.
The Engineers jumped ahead early thanks to RPI singles by a pair Primerano RBI singles and a Hicks sacrifice fly in the first two innings.
Brockport got one back in the top of the fourth before Oehlschlaeger doubled in two in move the lead to 6-1 in the bottom half of the frame. The Golden Eagles would then rally for five runs across the fifth, sixth, and seventh innings to tie the game at 6-6 late.
The Engineers manufactured the winning run on the base paths, as Abdallah was able to score on double steal alongside Hicks.
Primerano, Oehlschlaeger, Abdallah, and Kameron Levesque all had multi-hit performances in the second win of the day as well. Primerano was 3-for-4 once again with two runs, and Oehlschlaeger, Abdallah, and Levesque logged two base knocks and one RBI each.
RPI sprinted out of the gates with three runs in its first trip to the plate, with two runs coming on the bases before Levesque smoked a run-scoring double to the gap.
Robbie Reddington had a two-run single in fifth and Levesque would add another RBI single in the sixth before the Engineers enjoyed a pair of runs from bases-loaded walks in the same inning. Owen Burnsworth logged an RBI with a free pass while Reddington took four balls out of the zone for his third RBI of the finale.
Liam Riordan provided 6.2 hitless innings as the game two starter for the Engineers. Dylan Watson came in and got out of a jam in the top of the ninth to earn his second save of the season as well.
Winners of seven games in a row, RPI next travels Amherst to a 3:30 pm meeting on Wednesday afternoon in Massachusetts.