April 19, 2006
Final Stats
Gabe Perez homered in both ends of Siena's doubleheader with New York Tech Wednesday helping the Saints to a split with the Bears. Siena rallied from a 5-0 deficit to win the first game 8-5 and lost 5-4 after falling behind 4-0 in the second.
NY Tech (17-12) jumped over starter Ryan King for five runs in its first at bat of the day. The Bears scored on RBI hits by Joe Esposito and Tom Murray and a long two-run homerun off the bat of Bryan Pastor.
King then settled down and did not allow a run over his final five innings of work, allowing Siena to rally.
The Saints (13-21-1) broke through with four runs in the third inning, three of which came on Perez' sixth homerun of the season. Jake Willis scored the fourth run on a fielding error.
Trailing 5-4, Siena added another four runs in the fifth. Chris Klepps doubled home Rick Seltzer to tie the game and Jason DeFillipo's groundball allowed the eventual game-winning run to score. Eric Hildenbrand also scored on the play, as the Bears committed one of their four errors in the game. Their second error of the inning allowed Siena's eighth run to score.
JJ Potrikus came on to work a perfect ninth and pick up his first career save. King was credited with his first victory of the season. He struck out five.
In the second game, NY Tech again seized control of the game with a big early inning. The Bears put four runs up in the second, scoring twice on Allendi Peralta's second homerun of the season. Run-scoring singles by Mike MacMillan and Joe Esposito accounted for the other two runs.
Siena tried to battle back in the game with the long ball. Scott King lined his first homerun off the season over the left field wall in the bottom of the second to start the scoring. Jake Willis answered with a towering blast to left the next inning and Perez hit his second homerun of the day in the fifth to make the score 4-3.
The Bears added a much-needed insurance run in the sixth on MacMillan's second RBI safety of the game. The Saints got the run back in the sixth on a clutch RBI single by Chris Klepps, but Tech got out of the inning when Klepps was caught stealing following a strikeout with runners on the corners and one out.
Siena loaded the bases in the ninth, but John Eichorn induced a fielder's choice groundout off the bat of Seltzer to pick up his third save of the season.
The Saints travel to Canisius for a three-game MAAC set this weekend.
