VIDEO: WATCH THE MANUEL LOPEZ WALK-OFF HOME RUN

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology relied on a freshman to help cap a Senior Day sweep for the Fightin' Engineer baseball team on Sunday at Art Nehf Field.

Freshman Manuel Lopez hit a walk-off, 3-run home run in the bottom of the 10th inning to lead Rose-Hulman past Mount St. Joseph 6-3 in the nightcap.  The Fightin' Engineers previously won the opener 12-3.

Rose-Hulman honored its 10 seniors prior to the first pitch.  This year's Senior Class has an overall record of 74-50 and were part of the 2019 HCAC regular season championship team.  Seniors include Quintin Bynum, Luke Calabrese, Harris Camp, Logan Cody, AJ Ernst, Alex Gavrilovich, Luke Kluemper, Shaine Mitchell, Jacob Petrisko and Ben Yoss.

The seniors played a large role in the 12-3 game one victory.  Petrisko scattered nine hits and allowed three runs with six strikeouts in six innings to improve to 6-1 on the season, before Ian Kline tossed the last three scoreless innings with four strikeouts.

Offensively, Camp had four hits and scored twice in the opener.  Ernst and Calabrese added three hits each, with Ernst having two RBIs and Calabrese recording three RBIs and scoring twice.  Josh Mesenbrink contributed three runs and two hits including a triple to the effort.  Cody added a triple.

In the nightcap, Rose-Hulman led 3-2 before Mount St. Joseph tied the game at 3-3 on a Ryan Murray home run in the eighth.  Rose-Hulman started the 10th with a walk to Brett Tuttle, an error on a sacrifice bunt by Camp, followed by the Lopez walk-off home run.

Josh Erpenbeck tossed 2.2 scoreless innings with four strikeouts to pick up the win.  Brett Borcherding struck out eight and allowed three runs in 7.1 innings of work.

Lopez had a team-high five RBIs on the day to go along with a 2-4 performance and one run.  Tuttle was 2-3 with two runs scored.  Andy Krajecki added two hits and Camp scored two runs.

Rose-Hulman secured the No. 3 seed for the upcoming HCAC Tournament with the victory.  The tournament opens with a Best-of-3 game series against No. 8 seeded Bluffton that will take place May 14-15 at Art Nehf Field.  The series winner will advance to the 5-team HCAC Tournament that is set for May 20-24 at the best remaining seed following the Best-of-3 opening round matchups.