NCAA REGIONAL CONTINUES: RPI, which is making its 19th trip to an NCAA Regional, faces Old Westbury on Thursday night (7:45pm) ... The Engineers made nine regional tournaments in the 90's, eight in the 00's and two so far in the 10's ... Making 13 straight NCAA trips from 1992 to 2004, Rensselaer has twice advanced to the College World series, doing so in 1996 and 2002.
RPI SHUTS OUT KEYSTONE: Backed by 7.2 innings of shutout pitching from senior
Jared Jensen, Rensselaer was able to silence the potent offense of Keystone College on Wednesday night to the tune of a 2-0 victory ... The Engineers plated two runs in the first inning and held on the rest of the way for the tournament-opening win ... Jensen went 1 for 4 at the dish with a run scored, while sophomore
Thomas Desmond finished 1 for 4 with an RBI-single ... Senior righthander
Sean Conroy pitched the final 1.2 innings to earn the save, striking out three.
IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT: Rensselaer is 30-36 all-time in NCAA Tournament play, including a 29-32 mark in regional action.
LEAGUE CHAMPS: RPI became just the second school in Liberty League Tournament history to lose its first game and come back to win the title by winning its next four games ... Skidmore turned the trick in 2012 ... RPI fell to RIT, 10-8, to open tournament play, before battling back with wins over Rochester (11-7) and Clarkson (10-3) ... In a rematch with the Tigers in the championship round, Rensselaer won by scores of 13-9 and 10-5 to earn the championship plaque.
FOLLOW THE ACTION: Live statistics for all New York Regional games can be found at http://colfax.cortland.edu/athletics/baseball/live/xlive.htm.
ON THE AIR: RPI's NCAA New York Regional games can be heard live on 91.5 FM, WRPI or online at www.wrpi.org/listen.
RENSSELAER BATTING LEADERS: Senior second baseman
Tim LeSuer is batting a team-best .418 (61 for 146) with 10 doubles, one triple, one home run, 45 runs scored and 35 runs batted in ... He has a .521 slugging percentage and a .527 on-base percentage ... Classmate and captain
Jared Jensen is hitting .367 (55 for 150) with a club-best 54 runs, 12 doubles, four triples, seven home runs and 34 RBI ... Sophomore
Jason Ramos rounds out the top three hitters at .366 (26 for 71) with four doubles, a homer, 16 runs and 17 RBI.
MAY DAY: The Engineers are 8-2 in the month of May and are hitting .308 as a team ... Senior
Tim LeSuer has started all 10 games and is batting .514 (19 for 37) with two doubles, a home run, six runs and 11 runs batted in ... Sophomore
Jason Ramos is hitting .455 (10 for 22) with two doubles, six runs and five RBI, while walking six times ... Sophomore
Thomas Desmond is at .364 (12 for 33) with a double, four runs and six RBI ... On the hill, senior
Jared Jensen is 3-0 with a 0.36 ERA in three starts, notching 20 strikeouts in 24.2 innings ... Classmate
Sean Conroy is 2-0 with a 2.84 ERA in 19.0 innings, recording 21 Ks and a save in three relief appearances.
TOUGHEST TO K: Senior
Tim LeSuer has gone down on strikes just twice in 149 at-bats, which is the best ratio in the nation ... He has drawn 28 walks and been hit by nine pitches for a .524 on-base percentage.
PITCHING LEADERS: Senior
Sean Conroy is 6-1 with a 1.80 earned run average in 14 appearances (11 starts) ... He has allowed just 57 hits in 75.0 innings, striking out 81, while walking 19 ... Opponents hit .210 off of him ... Senior
Jared Jensen (7-2) has a 2.21 ERA in 10 appearances (9 starts), including six complete games ... He has recorded 46 strikeouts in 61.0 innings ... Junior
Greg Echeverria (6-3) has a 2.59 ERA in 11 appearances (10 starts) ... He has a 63-to-11 strikeouts-to-walks ratio in 73.0 innings of work, while allowing a .258 opponent average ... Classmate
Stephen Schiavone (1-1) has made a team-high 16 relief appearances, registering a 4.78 ERA in 26.1 innings.
GOING THE DISTANCE: The Engineers pitching staff has combined to throw 17 complete games this season ... Leading the way is senior captain
Jared Jensen with six, while junior
Greg Echeverria (5) and senior
Sean Conroy (4) are right behind.
PITCHER OF THE YEAR: Senior righthander
Sean Conroy was named the Liberty League Pitcher of the Year after posting a 5-0 record with a 1.48 ERA in six league starts, which included four complete games and a shutout ... He surrendered 10 runs (7 earned) in 42.2 innings, striking out 50 and walking 10, while allowing a .220 opponent average.
SIX SELECTED TO ALL-LEAGUE TEAMS:
Sean Conroy,
Greg Echeverria,
Jared Jensen and
Tim LeSuer were all named to All-Liberty League First Team ...
Nick Palmiero earned Second Team honors, while
Thomas Desmond garnered Honorable Mention.
ENGINEERS SWEEP WEEKLY AWARDS: The Liberty League announced its weekly award winners on May 11 ...
Tim LeSuer and
Jared Jensen were named Performer and Pitcher of the Week, respectively, while
Jason Ramos earned Rookie of the Week ... LeSuer hit .545 (12 for 22) with a double, his first collegiate home run, five runs and seven runs batted in ... Jensen went 1-0 with a 1.00 earned run average in his only start last week, going 9.0 innings ... Ramos hit a team-best .583 (7 for 12) with five runs and four runs batted in.
STREAKS ALIVE: With his eighth inning single last night, senior
Tim LeSuer extended his season-long hitting streak to nine games, while boosting his reach base streak to 23 contests ... Sophomore
Jason Ramos has a hit in five straight games, while senior
Tyler Listing has gotten on base in 13 consecutive contests.
SCOUTING OLD WESTBURY: The Panthers come into Thursday's game with a 26-11 overall record, having beaten Baldwin-Wallace, 7-5, late on Wednesday night ... Dean Sheridan is batting a team-high .422 (35 for 83) with three doubles, a triple, 16 runs and 22 runs batted in ... Nick Yip has been the most productive hitter at .385 (40 for 105) ... He has 10 doubles, two triples, six homers, 25 runs and 32 RBI ... Tim Ingram, who picked up the win last night, is 8-3 with a 1.82 earned run average in 10 starts ... He has 92 strikeouts in 69.1 innings.
SERIES SINCE 2005: RPI and Old Westbury have met three times in the last 10 years ... The Engineers have won all three match-ups by scores of 15-1 (2008), 10-2 (2009) and 6-2 (2010).
IN THE WORLD SERIES: RPI has twice advanced to the College World Series, bowing out in two games in 1996, before going 1-2 in 2002.
ALL-TIME VS. NY REGIONAL: Rensselaer is 6-15 against Cortland in the NCAA Tournament ... The Engineers are 1-0 against Old Westbury, topping the Panthers, 9-8, in 2001.
