Montclair, NJ – Long-time Montclair State head baseball coach Norm Schoenig collected win No. 700 as his Red Hawks scored in each of the first five innings in a 15-2 victory over Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Yogi Berra Stadium on Tuesday afternoon.

Sophomore rightfielder Timothy Byron (East Hanover, NJ, Hanover Park) posted a career day going 3-for-3 with four RBI as Montclair (19-10) stretched its winning streak to four games. Chuck Erickson (Mansfield, MA / Mansfield) had a two-run home run for the Engineers, who fell to 13-14 with the loss.

Now in his 25th season, Schoenig became the 21st coach in NCAA Division III baseball history to join the 700-win club. Schoenig, the all-time winningest coach in Montclair State history, is 700-486-12 in his quarter century at the helm of the MSU baseball program, which he has guided to two NCAA Division III national championships (1993, 2000), seven regional titles and five NJAC crowns.

Montclair left no doubt that Schoenig would reach his milestone victory on Tuesday scoring five times in the first inning sending 10 hitters to the plate. Mickey McGraw (Morristown, NJ , Morristown) and Cody Pace (Milltown, NJ, Spotswood)each drew walks with McGraw crossing home plate on one of the four wild pitches by RPI in the opening inning. Matt Moreno added an RBI on a ground out and Scott Glozzy (Hackettstown, NJ, Warren Hills) drove in a run with a single before Byron's two-run single made the score 5-0.

The Red Hawks added a run in the second and two more in the third as Byron and Kevin Bond (Cedar Grove, NJ, Cedar Grove) each stroked run-scoring doubles.

Rensselaer would get two back in the top of the fourth as Erickson blasted a two-out, two run home run, his sixth making the score 9-2. The round tripper snapped Montclair State's shutout streak at 31 innings over a span of four games.

Byron, who entered the game with just three runs batted in this season, recorded his fourth RBI in the fourth with a base hit and MSU added two more in the fifth on an RPI error. The Red Hawks scored once more in the seventh and two in the eighth as bases loaded walks to Andrew Rigassio (Maplewood, NJ, Columbia) and Marcus McGriff (South Orange, NJ, Columbia) for the final margin.

Senior righthander Jack McDonough (Cranford, NJ, Cranford) picked up the win to improve to 4-0.

Pace and Bond each had two hits for MSU, which registered 15 in the game. Leadoff batter Jonny Rio (Maplewood, NJ / Columbia) went 3-for-4 for the Engineers.

The Red Hawks are right back at Yogi Berra Stadium on Wednesday evening, April 18 as they host Johns Hopkins University with first pitch slated for 7:00 pm.