TROY, N.Y. - Senior Tim LeSuer had three hits, including his first collegiate home run, with three RBI and classmate Sean Conroy allowed just four earned runs in 7.1 innings to lead the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) baseball team to an 11-7 win over the University of Rochester in an elimination game of the Liberty League Tournament at Robison Field. The Engineers improve to 23-15 and play another elimination game at 4:30pm against either Clarkson University or Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). The Yellowjackets finish their season with a 26-16 mark.

LeSuer (Oak View, CA / Nordhoff), a second baseman, singled in the game's first run in the third inning and later scored, hit a two-run home run to right field in the sixth inning for a 10-1 lead, and singled in the eighth inning. He now has seven hits in two games in the tournament and is hitting a team-best .418 in 38 games.

Conroy (Clifton Park, NY / Shenendehowa), a right hander, gave up eight hits and five runs with six strikeouts and no walks in improving to 6-1. He allowed an unearned run in the fourth inning and four more runs in the eighth. He left the game with a 10-5 lead after throwing 106 pitches. Classmate Adam Kalish (Clifton Park, NY / Shenendehowa) got the only two batters he faced in the eighth inning and sophomore Adam Aponte (Wantagh, NY / Wantagh) pitched the ninth inning.

Senior Josh Shulman (College Station, TX / A&M Consolidated) suffered the loss for Rochester, allowing five runs (2 earned) on four hits with three walks and a strikeout in 2.2 innings. Three relievers combined for the final 5.1 innings for the Yellowjackets, who got three hits, including a double, three runs and an RBI from senior left fielder Sam Slutsky (Cherry Hill, NJ / Cherry Hill East). Freshman shortstop Tyler Schmidt (Venetia, PA / Peters Township) added two hits, two runs and a run batted in.

After 2.5 scoreless innings, Rensselaer put five runs on the board in the third inning, highlighted by a double down the leftfield line by senior shortstop Nick Palmiero (Patterson, NY / Carmel). Eleven batters came to the plate in the frame for the Engineers. The Yellowjackets came right back with an unearned run in the top of the fourth inning on a sacrifice fly by Brendan Garry (Ronkonkoma, NY / Sachem North), but RPI plated three runs with two outs in the fifth when junior catcher Chris Holomakoff (Norwalk, CT / Brien McMahon) hit his first career home run, clearing the left field wall. LeSuer added his home run on a 1-2 pitch an inning later.

Rochester scored four runs on five hits in the eighth inning, including Slutsky's double, and added two runs on three hits in the ninth for the final margin.

RPI, the top seed, fell into the losers' bracket of the double-elimination tournament with a 10-8 loss to fourth-seeded RIT on Thursday. The Yellowjackets, the third-seed, lost to second-seeded Clarkson, 17-1, in the first game of the four-team event.