Siena Baseball bashed a season-high tying five home runs, punctuated by a pair of clutch blasts in the tenth inning, to secure their second straight midweek win with a 9-7 extra-inning triumph at Fairleigh Dickinson.
Gavin Thorburn delivered the go-ahead home run in the tenth inning, and
Kobe Stenson followed with what turned out to be a decisive two-run shot for his second home run of the afternoon to cap a stretch of six unanswered runs for Siena (2-19). The Saints tallied 13 hits – five of which left the Naimoli Family Baseball Complex – as
Tyler Figueroa and
Luke Ulbert each added round-trippers of their own.
Siena squared the score at 3-3 in the fourth on a two-run homer from Figueroa and a solo shot by Stenson, who registered his first collegiate multi-homer effort. Four of Stenson's nine hits so far this season have left the park.
Fairleigh Dickinson (8-14) got all three runs back in the home half of the fourth to reclaim a 6-3 lead, but were quieted offensively thereafter by
Nolan Puglisi. The freshman reliever came out of the Saints bullpen to fire five scoreless innings of relief work while allowing just one hit to secure his first collegiate win.
Siena received major contributions from the bottom of its order as, in addition to No. 8 hitter Stenson, No. 9 batter Ulbert added four hits of his own, punctuated by the game-tying three-run homer in the sixth.
The Saints are scheduled to return to action Thursday when they host Quinnipiac for their league opener.