BROOKLYN, N.Y. (March 4, 2017) – The Rutgers University-Newark baseball team suffered a tough 13-11 loss Saturday at MCU Park in Brooklyn against New York University. The game was played in stiff winds and temperatures in the lower 20's out on Coney Island in the stadium that houses the Brooklyn Cyclones.
 
The Scarlet Raiders fell behind 5-0 early, came back to lead 7-5 and 10-6, but they ultimately dropped the high-scoring showdown.
 
Rutgers-Newark moves to 3-2 on the young season and returns to action with a doubleheader at Purchase College Sunday. NYU improves to 2-0 with the win.
 
The Scarlet Raiders had nine hits, but left nine runners on base, while NYU finished with 11 knocks and six left.
 
NYU raced out to a 5-0 lead with two runs in the first and three more in the second, and the Scarlet Raiders only recorded one hit through the first four innings of play.
 
In the fifth, the bats came alive as the Scarlet Raiders scored seven times on five hits. Junior catcher Justin Marks walked to start the inning, freshman JC Ball singled, and after a walk to sophomore Ryan Zucker, junior Anthony Perconte plated a pair with a run-scoring single. Junior Brian Boulineau walked, chasing the NYU starter, and junior Ross Halkias came through with a bases-clearing double down the left-field-line to tie the game at five. Junior Adam Tricarico (FC) and senior Josh Cote (1B) reached to load the bases again, and Marks came through with a two-run single to put Newark on top 7-5.
 
After NYU got one back in the fifth, Adam Tricarico (BB) and Cote (HBP) worked their way on to start the seventh, and freshman Dan Tricarico singled to load the bases. Ball brought home one run with a sac fly, and Zucker plated two with a big double to left.
 
NYU responded, scoring four times in its half of the seventh inning to tie the game at 10-all on the back of two hits and three walks in the frame.
 
Adam Tricarico and Cote reached with two outs in the eighth, but did not come around to score, and NYU scored three times in its half of the inning to go on top 13-10.
 
Rutgers-Newark was able to get the tying run to the plate in the ninth, but the Raiders could only push across the single tally to fall by the 13-11 final.
 
Zucker went 2-for-4 with two doubles, two RBI and a run scored, and Halkias went 1-for-4 with a walk, three RBI and a run scored. Marks went 1-for-2 with two RBI, Perconte had a hit and two RBI, and Tricarico walked three times and scored twice. Boulineau tallied a hit and two walks and Ball had two runs, a hit and an RBI.
 
Junior Dominick Fazio started and gave up five runs on seven hits and four strikeouts in five innings, veteran Chas Bohannon gave up five runs and three hits in 2.1 innings, and sophomore Dan Murphy took the loss, giving up three runs in 1.2 innings of work.
 
Junior captain Matthew Millus tossed the ninth to pick up the win for NYU.     

Sunday's opener at Purchase is slated for an 11 a.m. start.