LOUDONVILLE, NY – Connor Bovair, Mike McCully, and Arlo Marynczak combined to allow just one run on four hits over 16 innings of work to lead Siena Baseball to a doubleheader split with Rider at Connors Park. The Broncs edged the Saints 1-0 in seven innings in the opener, while Siena bounced back with a 3-0 shutout triumph in the nightcap.
 
Game 1: Rider 1, Siena 0 (7)
An overturned balk call in the penultimate inning awarded Rider (18-14) the series opening win. Bovair and Broncs' ace Pete Soporowski matched each other pitch for pitch in combining to scatter seven hits and one run with just one walk and 17 strikeouts between the duo in an ultimate pitcher's duel.
 
The decisive play came in the sixth inning when Rider runner Jordan Erbe broke for home on the pitch, only to be thrown out at the plate by Bovair. However, upon further discussion, the play was ruled a balk which handed the Broncs the lead.
 
The MAAC leader in strikeouts by a wide margin entering the day, the freshman Bovair tacked on nine more without issuing a walk in his seven-inning gem. He allowed just three hits and the one run in being saddled with the tough luck loss.
 
Soporowski allowed four hits, one walk, and eight strikeouts in pitching the shutout win to improve to 5-2 for Rider.
 
Game 2: Siena 3, Rider 0
McCully and Marynczak combined to throw the sixth one-hitter (and first combined) in the modern era for Siena (12-20), and first in 19 years dating back to Dave Pahucki on Apr. 23, 2002 vs. C.W. Post. The Saints have now recorded a no-hitter, one-hitter, and two-hitter spanning the team's past eight games.
 
A third inning single by Erbe was the only blemish that stood between Siena and its second no-hitter in two weeks. McCully went the first 6.2 innings allowing just the one hit while walking three and striking out two to improve to 3-5. Marynczak finished with 2.1 hitless innings with a walk and two strikeouts to record his third save.
 
Donovan Montgomery got the Saints started with a two-run single in the first, while Kobe Stenson added an insurance run with an RBI single in the sixth.
 
The teams will wrap up their pivotal weekend series Sunday with Mother's Day doubleheader action beginning at noon.