NEWARK, NJ—NJIT and Fordham split a non-conference baseball doubleheader Friday afternoon at Bears and Eagles Riverfront Stadium, with the visiting Rams scoring 7 runs in their last two half-innings at bat to take the opener 10-4 and the Highlanders earning a split with a 3-2 victory in the nightcap.

Friday's split leaves Fordham with a 9-13 won-lost record, while NJIT, which snapped a five-game skid by winning Game Two, is 8-13.
The Highlanders and Rams are scheduled to play another doubleheader on the other side of the George Washington Bridge on Saturday at Fordham in the Bronx, with first pitch of the opening game slated for noon.
 
The big story Friday afternoon for the Highlanders was the work of sophomore right-hander Sean Lubreski (4-2), who served as a stopper in the second game, leading NJIT to its first win since March 15.
 
Lubreski, who tied the program Division I record for wins by a freshman (5) in 2015, tossed his first career complete game in Friday's win over Fordham. He had also gone seven innings in each of his previous two games, but those contests each went nine innings.
 
Against Fordham, he allowed at least one base runner in every inning but the first and sixth innings, but carried a shutout into the seventh, and final inning. In the seventh, he allowed singles to each of the first three batters, but managed to retire the next three, allowing two runs and stranding the potential tying run at third base.
 
His final line was 7 innings, 9 hits, 2 runs, 2 walks and 2 strikeouts.
 
The loss went to the Fordham starter, Greg Weisert (0-3), who was tagged with all three NJIT runs on five hits and two walks in four innings. Two Ram relievers held the Highlanders scoreless on one hit over the last two innings.
 
At the plate, LF Evan Pietronico was 2-for-2 for NJIT, including a double, while DH Stephan Halibej had one hit and drove in two runs and SS Justin Etts (1-for-1) added an RBI. Freshman 3B Tom Brady (1-for-3) doubled and scored a run.
 
Fordham SS Joseph DeVito had two hits and seven different other Rams had one hit apiece. All nine Fordham hits were singles.
 
NJIT broke a scoreless tie in the bottom of the third inning when Halibej singled to center field with one out, bringing in two runs. The Highlanders added a run in the next inning, when Brady doubled with one out and scored on a single to center field by Etts.
 
The 3-0 lead held into the top of the seventh inning, when 3B Luke Stampfl, DH Ryan Mahoney, and C Justin Bardwell all singled to open the inning, with one run scoring.
 
A sacrifice bunt moved the second and potential tying run into scoring position and a ground out brought home Mahoney, as NJIT conceded the second run in order to secure the second out. Lubreski then closed the win by inducing a 5-3 game-ending ground out.
 
Game One
Trailing 3-1 headed into the bottom of the fourth inning, NJIT scored three times to take a 4-3 lead. However, the visiting Rams went back into the lead with a four-run top of the sixth inning and tacked on another three in the seventh to score a 10-4 victory.
 
Each team used four pitchers and the pitchers of record for both teams were relievers. Freshman right-hander Anthony DeMeglio (2-1), the second man on the mound for the Rams, was credited with the win after tossing a perfect fifth inning.
 
Fordham starter Ben Greenberg allowed six hits and four runs (three earned) in four innings, while DeMeglio and two other relievers combined to blank NJIT on one hit over the last three frames of the seven-inning contest.
 
Sophomore Tommy Derer (1-1), NJIT's second pitcher, absorbed the loss after allowing three runs on three hits in his one inning of work. He relieved senior LHP Ian Bentley, who started and was charged with four runs (two earned) on five hits and four walks in four innings.
 
LF Ryan McNally led the Fordham hitters with a 3-for-3 game, including a home run, with two runs scored and four driven in. Reiss Knehr homered in his only at-bat and drove in three runs and Lundy and Stampfl each had a pair of hits for the Rams.
 
Sophomore CF Jesse Uttendorfer (3-for-4) and the freshman Tom Brady (2-for-3, two doubles) paced NJIT.
 
Fordham got on the board with a pair of runs in the top of the first inning, thanks to a one-out, two-run homer by McNally.
 
The Highlanders got a run back in the bottom of the third inning, as Pietronico hit an RBI ground out to bring home Etts, who had led off the frame with a single.
 
Fordham made it 3-1 with an unearned run in the top of the fourth inning, but the Rams made two errors in the bottom half, helping NJIT, which also had three hits, to a three-run bottom of the fourth.
 
With one out, RF Matt McKinnon singled and Brady followed with a double off the right field fence. Etts hit a slow ground ball to first base that was misplayed into an error, with McKinnon crossing the plate. Uttendorfer singled home Brady with the second run of the frame and Etts later scored the go-ahead run on Fordham's second error of the inning.
 
Fordham reclaimed the lead, 7-4, with a four-run top of the sixth highlighted by a no-doubt-about it two-run blast over the left field fence by McNally with one out off of Derer.
 
The Rams added three more runs on Knehr's home run that stayed just inside the right field foul pole.