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Charlie Lapp of RPI Baseball in action versus Cortland on Saturday, April 18 2026 in Troy, New York.
Maggie Kelley
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Winner RPI RPI 21-13, 10-4 LL
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Bard BARD 10-20, 4-10 LL
Winner
RPI RPI
21-13, 10-4 LL
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Final
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Bard BARD
10-20, 4-10 LL
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
RPI RPI 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 5 1 7 10 0
Bard BARD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 8 0

W: Riordan, Liam (4-1) L: Kane Morgan (4-4)

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RPI RPI 21-14, 10-5 LL
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Winner Bard BARD 11-20, 5-10 LL
RPI RPI
21-14, 10-5 LL
1
Final
2
Bard BARD
11-20, 5-10 LL
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
RPI RPI 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 6 2
Bard BARD 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 X 2 7 0

W: Charles Lehr (2-4) L: Nayvelt, Danny (1-1) S: Graham Williams (2)

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

Baseball Clinches Top Spot in East Division with Split at Bard

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. – The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) baseball team split its Liberty League doubleheader at Bard on Saturday at Honey Field, taking the opener 7-3 before falling 2-1 in game two.

RPI broke through first in the opener with a run in the third. Charlie Lapp worked a walk and Walker Abdallah followed with another free pass before both moved into scoring position, and Michael Lebenson drew a bases-loaded walk to force in Lapp for a 1-0 lead.

The Engineers stayed in front behind a strong start from Liam Riordan and then erupted late to create separation. In the eighth, Lebenson doubled to left-center and came home on Charlie Morse's sacrifice fly to make it 2-0. RPI kept the inning rolling as Charlie Lapp delivered an RBI single, Alex Coombes worked a bases-loaded walk, and Connor Dynan capped the five-run frame with a two-run single to push the advantage to 6-0. Bard got on the board with a solo homer in the bottom of the eighth, but RPI answered in the ninth when Morse walked and later scored on Jorge Hitlin's RBI double to make it 7-1.

Bard tacked on two in the bottom of the ninth, but the Engineers finished off the 7-3 win. Abdallah set the table all afternoon, reaching base three times via walks and scoring once, while Hitlin went 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI and Lebenson added the key double and run scored. Lapp produced two hits and an RBI, and Dynan delivered a two-run single during the decisive eighth.

Riordan tossed 6.0 scoreless innings while allowing three hits and striking out four. Andrew Gaughan worked a scoreless seventh with two strikeouts, and the bullpen navigated the late frames to close out the win.

Game two turned into a tight pitchers' duel that stayed scoreless through four innings before Bard scratched across two runs in the bottom of the fifth. A walk and a single set the table, and a two-run single to left gave the Raptors a 2-0 advantage.

RPI threatened throughout and finally broke through in the sixth to cut the margin in half. Morse singled and Lebenson followed with a single, and with runners at the corners, Matt Chotiner worked an RBI walk to bring Morse home and make it 2-1. The Engineers put traffic on again late, including a two-out push in the eighth as Jorge was hit by a pitch and Andrew Crux singled to right, but Bard escaped the inning and held on for the one-run win.

Morse led RPI's offense in the nightcap with a 2-for-4 day and scored the Engineers' lone run, while Lebenson went 2-for-5 and Crux added a pinch-hit single. RPI's pitching staff kept it close, as Mike Nelson tossed 3.0 scoreless innings to start and Julian Fong-McAdams added a clean fourth before Danny Nayvelt was tagged with the loss. Zac Zajac struck out two in a scoreless eighth to keep the Engineers within one.

The Engineers next head to SUNY Cobleskill on Wednesday afternoon. 
 

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