BALTIMORE, MD – NJIT baseball won their fifth consecutive game with an 8-7 comeback victory over Coppin State on Tuesday.

Brothers David Marcano and Julio Marcano notched five of the Highlanders eight RBI's. David was 3-for-5 on the day with two runs and two RBI's while Julio was 2-for-3 with one run and three RBI's.

Trailing 5-0 after the first, the Highlanders put themselves on the board with an RBI double by Alex Burman scoring Julio Marcano who walked right before his at-bat.

Brett Lubreski came into the game in the second inning and pitched four big innings for the Highlanders, shutting down the Eagles and tallying three strikeouts in his first win of the season.

In the third NJIT piled on some more runs with a two-run double by Julio Marcano, to make it 5-3 in favor of Coppin State.

With bases loaded in the fourth, Jesse Uttendorfer earned a walk to score teammate Bryce Short and putting the Highlanders within one, 5-4.

The run gates broke open for NJIT in the sixth, who scored four runs to take an 8-5 lead. David Marcano gave NJIT a 6-5 lead with a two-run double scoring Justin Etts and Michael Anastasia. Two batters later Matthew Cocciadiferro singled to center field to bring in David, and Julio Marcano doubled to left field to score Cocciadiferro, giving NJIT an 8-5 lead.

Coppin State added two more runs in the seventh, but the Highlander pitcher Johnny Malatesta shut them down in the ninth posting his third save of the season.

Next the Highlanders play Penn State in a three game series starting March 16 at 5pm, March 17 at 1pm and March 18 at 12pm hosted by the Nittany Lyons