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Matt Chotiner of RPI Baseball in action versus Union on April 25, 2025 in Troy New York.
Maggie Kelley
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Winner Rensselaer RPI 27-14
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Skidmore SKIDMORE 21-17-2
Winner
Rensselaer RPI
27-14
14
Final
3
Skidmore SKIDMORE
21-17-2
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Rensselaer RPI 7 0 1 1 0 2 0 2 1 14 13 0
Skidmore SKIDMORE 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 13 3

W: Nelson, Mike (5-1) L: N.PALOVICH (0-2)

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Winner Rensselaer RPI 28-14
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Ithaca College ITHACA 26-14
Winner
Rensselaer RPI
28-14
16
Final
6
Ithaca College ITHACA
26-14
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Rensselaer RPI 2 0 6 4 3 1 0 0 0 16 16 2
Ithaca College ITHACA 1 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 0 6 8 6

W: Gaughan, Andrew (2-2) L: Ethan Murley (2-1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Adrian Donnelly - Assistant Athletic Director for Communications

Baseball Pushes Liberty League Championship Series to a Sunday Winner-Take-All Versus Ithaca

ITHACA, NY – The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) baseball team powered its way to the final game of the Liberty League Championship with victories against Skidmore and Ithaca today at Booth Field on the campus of Cornell University.

The Engineers bested Skidmore 14-3 in an elimination matchup to begin the day before pushing past Ithaca 16-6 in the first game of the championship series. The win sends RPI and the Bombers to a final, winner-take-all meeting tomorrow at noon.

Matt Chotiner went 5-for-6 with five runs batted in versus Skidmore. Ayush Krishnappa had three hits and Julian Scarpa provided two hits and scored three runs. Jon Primerano reached base four times and Ian Oehlschlaeger touched home three times in the opener as well.

The Engineers plated seven runs in the top of first and never looked back in the win over the Golden Knights. Michael Lebenson and Scarpa each produced RBI, while Chotiner drove in a pair as part of the tone-setting rally.

Aidan Hicks had a run-scoring groundout in the third and Lebenson recorded his second RBI of the game in the fourth to help RPI extend the big lead. Robbie Reddington also had an RBI single in the eighth.

Primerano highlighted the offensive production in the championship opening game versus Ithaca, as his four-hit effort topped a group of six Engineers with multi-hit performances. Krishnappa, Chotiner, Scarpa, Reddington, and Walker Abdallah also registered two hits each, additionally. Lebenson, Chotiner, and Abdallah came around to score three times each, while Primerano and Krishnappa both had two runs in the lopsided win.

RPI scored 15 of its 16 runs in the first five trips to the plate. First-inning RBI by Oehlschlaeger and Lebenson got RPI on the right track before the Engineers exploded in the third, fourth, and fifth innings.

Krishnappa laced an RBI double, Scarpa singled in a run, and Chotiner and Reddington delivered two RBI each in the third. Scarpa and Primerano logged an RBI, and Reddington plated two more in the top of the fourth. Another two-run single in the fifth by Scarpa gave the infielder a four-RBI day, matching Reddington. Chotiner capped a three-RBI effort with a sac fly in the sixth.

First pitch in tomorrow's championship-deciding tilt is set for 12:00 pm at Booth Field.

 
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