LOUDONVILLE, NY – For the second straight day, Marist broke out the bats late to once again rally past Siena Baseball 8-1 in the rubber game and capture the series at Connors Park. The Red Foxes went ahead scoring seven of their eight runs in innings six through eight.
 
Siena (6-29, 2-7) started strong with a run on three hits in the first, capped by an RBI double from Vincent DiNicola. But the Saints managed just three hits the rest of the way off the combination of Zane Kmietek and Jack Keenan, the latter of whom went the final six innings of scoreless relief allowing just three hits without a walk while striking out eight to earn the win for Marist (7-26, 3-6).
 
The Red Foxes knotted the score in the fourth, before taking a 2-1 lead in the sixth on an RBI single by Justin Kapuscinski. Marist added a pair of insurance runs in the seventh before putting the game away with a four-run eighth, punctuated by a three-run homer from Colin Mackle.
 
DiNicola led Siena with a pair of hits and was on base three times. Ryan Bates tossed 7.1 innings allowing four earned runs while striking out three without issuing a walk.
 
Following what ended up being a season-long eight-game homestand, the Saints will return to the road for the first time in more than two weeks when they take on defending Northeast Conference Champion LIU Tuesday at 3 p.m. in Brookville, New York.