Baseball Begins Four-Game Set with NYU

TROY, N.Y.- The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) baseball team suffered 11-8 and 8-6 setbacks in the first two contests of a four-game weekend series against non-conference opponent New York University at Karl Steffen Ballpark. Matt Chotiner went 4-for-5 with an RBI and three runs scored in game one for the Engineers. Martin Marintchev and Julian Scarpa each logged a pair of hits as well in the opener. Scarpa and Owen Burnsworth finished with two RBI to lead the Engineer lineup. Game one began with Marintchev driving in Chotiner to put RPI ahead 1-0 in the bottom of the first inning,…