LOUDONVILLE, NY – Marist exploded for 13 unanswered runs over the final four innings to rally past Siena Baseball 15-6 and even the series Saturday afternoon at Connors Park.
 
Siena (6-28, 2-6) carried a seemingly solid 6-2 lead into the sixth, but Marist (6-26, 2-6) halved the deficit in the frame before reclaiming the lead in the seventh. Consecutive two-out, two-run singles by Bayram Hot and Ethan Conrad put the Red Foxes back in front for good 8-6 in the seventh.
 
Marist kept the pedal squarely on the gas, adding three more runs in the eighth and four in the ninth to complete the comeback. Hot and Conrad knocked in three runs apiece for Marist which also stole six bases.
 
The Saints had answered a two-run top of the second with five runs in the home half to forge ahead early. The first seven batters in the inning reached, with five consecutive Siena hitters knocking in a run apiece. The Saints added a run on a squeeze play in the fourth.
 
But Siena managed just three hits the rest of the way, as Red Foxes reliever Jack Bowery shut the door out of the bullpen. Bowery went 6.2 innings of relief allowing just five hits and one run without walking a batter and striking out six to earn the win.
 
Randall Hien tallied three hits and was on base four times to lead the Saints offensively, while Willie Schwarick added a pair of hits.
 
Siena will look to bounce back and take another shot at its first conference series win of the season in the rubber game Sunday at noon.