TROY, N.Y. - Senior William Helm stopped 15 shots, including all six he saw in the second half, and Jack Hennessey scored three second half goals as the No. 10 St. Lawrence University (SLU) men's lacrosse team outscored No. 14 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) 7-0 in the final 30 minutes and the Saints defeated the Engineers 11-7 in a critical Liberty League contest at East Campus Stadium.

With the win, SLU improves to 12-2 overall and 5-1 in the conference, which puts them in a 3-way tie with one game to play. St. Lawrence hosts Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), with whom it is tied (along with Union College) next Saturday. The Engineers drop to 9-4 and 3-3 and are now tied with Ithaca College for fourth in the standings. RPI travels to face the Bombers next Saturday with the winner earning the final spot in the Liberty League Playoffs.

After falling behind 3-0 in the first quarter, the Saints came back to tie the score at 3-3 early in the second. RPI's Trey Froehlich tallied the next two goals for a 5-3 lead and Ryan Raferty and Connor Glosner countered a SLU goal to put the Engineers ahead 7-4 at halftime. 

Tyler Nalls had two goals and an assist and Raferty had a goal and an assist to join Froehlich with multiple points in the first half. Joseph Perry had six first half saves for RPI, while Helm stopped nine shots, including five in the second quarter. 

The Saints opened the third quarter with a Ben Murtagh goal just 57 seconds into the frame and the senior pulled the visitors to within one with his third of the contest with 13:17 to go in the period. A man-up goal by Josh Huiatt approximately three minutes later tied the game and Mark Mahoney took a feed from Murtagh and scored at 3:15 to give the Saints their first lead of the afternoon. Hennessey, an attack, made it 9-7 less than a minute later and then tallied SLU's sixth goal of the third quarter with just five seconds remaining on the clock off a set up by Judge Murphy.

Hennessey's fourth goal of the game - and 37th of the season - was scored with 2:48 to play in the fourth quarter for the final margin. Helm had two saves in the third quarter and four in the fourth. Hennessey and Murtagh both finished with four points, while Murphy had three (1 goal, 2 assists). Three others had multiple points and Padraic Condon and Tripp Clark led St. Lawrence with five ground balls apiece.

Sophomore Angelo Venuto won 12 of 18 face offs for RPI and collected a game-high 13 ground balls in the process. Defenseman Caleb Oswari had four pickups and two caused turnovers and Perry made 11 saves, along with a ground ball and a caused turnover.