ADRIAN, Mich. -- The Siena Heights baseball team bounced back with a pair of WHAC victories over Lawrence Tech on Sunday at the McLaughlin Baseball Diamond, winning 5-3 and 14-5. Individual recaps are below.
Game 1: Siena Heights 5, Lawrence Tech 3
The Saints came back from a 3-1 deficit, taking the lead for good on a two-run single by Mac Melvin in the fifth inning.
Kaleb Woods finished 2-for-2 with two walks, two stolen bases and one run. Jaozef Del Rosario had a double during the fifth-inning comeback.
SHU fell behind 2-0 in the fourth inning before Zander Zeiter cut the lead in half with an RBI single.
Lawrence Tech scored its third run in the fifth before the Saints scored four unanswered.
Del Rosario's two-bagger pulled SHU within 3-2 before Melvin's go-ahead hit.
The Saints were awarded their fifth run on a balk in the sixth.
Josh Floyd opened on the mound for Siena Heights, working a scoreless inning. Garret Smith went the next six frames to earn the win, allowing two earned runs in six hits while totaling six strikeouts and one walk.
Game 2: Siena Heights 14, Lawrence Tech 5
SHU finished out the weekend series with a 14-hit performance. Del Rosario led the way, going 3-for-3 with a double, one walk and four RBI.
Mason Mitchell was 3-for-5 with two runs and an RBI. Melvin, Braxton Mustiful and Brady Belegrin added two-hit games. Jack Semler tripled.
The visiting Blue Devils evened the score at 1-all in the second inning after an RBI single by Del Rosario put the Saints ahead in the first.
SHU scored the next 13 runs, plating four in the second, one in the third, six in the fourth and two in the fifth.
Kaleb Woods and Mitchell had RBI singles in the second before Del Rosario plated two with a double.
Baer had a sac fly in the third.
During the 6-run fourth, Semler ripped a two-run triple. Melvin and Mustiful had run-scoring singles in the inning. Wyatt Burris added a sac fly.
Del Rosario had an RBI single in SHU's 2-run fifth.
LTU scored twice in both the sixth and seventh inning.
Pearson Mendiuk was the winning pitcher, working the first six innings. He gave up three runs on five hits while finishing with four strikeouts and two walks.
Evan Demsey finished up on the mound, allowing two runs on five hits while recording four strikeouts and one walk.
