CANTON, N.Y. - Senior Kyle MacDonald's walk-off RBI single up the middle in the bottom of the 10th inning helped the St. Lawrence University baseball team to a 3-2 win in Saturday's second game of a crucial Liberty League doubleheader against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). The Saints (14-23; 12-10 LL) also won the first game 3-1 behind freshman Evan Reichel's complete-game on the mound. The Engineers (12-25; 11-11 LL) must win both games tomorrow and need Union to sweep Vassar to make the Liberty League Tournament. 

MacDonald had two hits for the Saints in the extra-inning win, while first-year Taylor Digilioled St. Lawrence in the opening game of the four-game set with the Engineers with a 3 for 4 day at the plate. Sophomore Tom Sullivan also had a multi-hit game with two in game one.

First-years Reichel and Emmett Dunn were both strong in their respective starts for the Scarlet and Brown, with Reichel allowing just one run on four hits with one strikeout for the win in the first game. Dunn went seven and a third in the second game, allowing two runs on seven hits with three strikeouts of his own.

In the first game, RPI opened up a 1-0 lead in the top of the second with a double by junior Thomas Desmond to lead off the frame and a Ethann Meister RBI single to right with two outs, but that was the only run the visitors would push across against Reichel and the Saints.

The home team answered with two in the bottom of the frame; both unearned after back-to-back errors by RPI with two outs.

Devin Robson led off the inning with a double to center field and moved to third on a groundout by Isaac Lewis. In the next at bat, Evan Reichel flied out to right – not deep enough to bring  Robson in on the catch, but the right fielder overthrew home allowing Robson to score for a 1-1 game.

Beau Yaremko reached on a fielding error by the shortstop to keep the inning alive and advanced to second hard-earned single to third base by Sullivan who hustled down the line to beat out a play.

With two out and two on, Digilio hit an RBI single to right that plated Yaremko as the game-winning run for a 2-1 St. Lawrence lead.

The Saints added an insurance run on an RBI fielder's choice by Mic Regan in the bottom of the fourth that brought Sullivan in to score for the eventual 3-1 margin.

In the nightcap, St. Lawrence scored a run apiece in both the second and third innings to build a 2-0 lead before Rensselaer chipped away to force extras.

With two outs in the second, Adam Reichel doubles to center field and advanced to third on a fielding error by the centerfield, who bobbled the transfer on the warning track, which set up an RBI single to center by Yaremko for the team's first run.

In the third, first-year Anthony Butler was hit by a pitch to lead off the inning and advanced to second on a sac bunt by Sullivan. He came around to score for a 2-0 lead on an RBI single to right center by Digilio.

The Engineers got one run back in the fourth on a SLU error and another in the eighth from a bases-loaded sac fly by Sam Lawrence.

The Saints left a runner on base in the bottom of the ninth, as did RPI in the top of the tenth, setting up MacDonald's walk-off in the bottom of the frame.

After a pair of groundouts by Butler and Sullivan, Digilio reached on a throwing error by the shortstop to keep the inning alive. A single to center field by Mic Regan put runners on the corners.

With a 1-1 count, MacDonald singled up the middle to give the Saints the win.

The Saints will host the Engineers for the final two games of their four-game set on Sunday on Tom Fay Field with first pitch scheduled for 12pm.