LOUDONVILLE, NY – Siena Baseball completed a crucial series victory with a Mother's Day doubleheader sweep of Rider at Connors Park. The Saints won the opener 4-0 in seven innings, and captured the nightcap 9-3, to take three of four from the Broncs who had entered the weekend in second place in the MAAC Standings.
 
Game 1: Siena 4, Rider 0 (7)
John Lumpinski twirled the second straight one-hitter for Siena (14-20), after flirting with a no-hitter through the first 6.1 innings in the scheduled seven-inning affair. Prior to yesterday's combined one-hitter between Mike McCully and Arlo Marynczak, the Saints had gone 19 years since the program's previous one-hitter. Siena pitchers have now registered a no-hitter, two one-hitters, and a two-hitter over just the past 15 days.
 
Lumpinski came just two outs shy of the no-hitter, before being broken up by pinch hitter Brendan O'Donnell in the seventh. O'Donnell smashed a single to charging rightfielder Brett Young who came up throwing and nearly retired O'Donnell on a bang-bang play at first which would have preserved the no-hitter. Lumpinski allowed just the one single while walking one and striking out six to improve to 4-1 this spring.
 
Siena scratched across single runs in the first and fifth innings on an RBI double by Eddie Sweeney and a run-scoring single from Kobe Stenson, before tacking on a pair of insurance runs on a two-run double by Evan St. Claire in the sixth. Young registered a pair of hits and also scored twice for the Saints.
 
Game 2: Siena 9, Rider 3
The 5-8 hitters combined to knock in all nine runs while recording multiple RBI apiece as Siena completed the sweep. With the victory, the Saints stand in fifth place in the MAAC Standings heading into the final week of the season.
 
Siena scored all of its runs over a two-inning outburst in the fourth and fifth innings. Tim Carroll and Carson Dunkel recorded clutch back-to-back two-out, two-run singles to open the scoring in the fourth, while Sweeney and St. Claire added consecutive two-run doubles in the fifth. Dunkel capped the scoring with a sacrifice fly for the Saints who outscored Rider (18-16) by a 16-4 margin for the weekend.
 
Brooks Knapek tossed seven strong innings to secure his second win. The southpaw scattered four hits and one run while walking two and striking out nine.
 
Siena is scheduled to conclude regular season action Wednesday with another pivotal doubleheader at Marist starting at noon. The Saints enter the final week of the regular season a win ahead of the late-starting Red Foxes in the MAAC Standings.