LOUDONVILLE, NY – Winners of five of their last six games and riding a new wave of momentum, Siena Men's Lacrosse reassembled the team to take down the defending MAAC Champions and No. 4 seed Marist 12-9 last weekend and now take aim at top seed Sacred Heart in a MAAC Semifinal match up on Manhattan's Gaelic Park Thursday at 3 p.m. 

The fifth-seeded Saints (8-7) exercised some demons in the dispatching of the Red Foxes, who had beaten them nine times in a row before Saturday including last year's MAAC Championship Game. 

Exacting some payback will be a story line once again this time as Siena faces Sacred Heart, a team that jumped on them early and often in the first meeting between the teams this season and ran off with a 18-8 victory on the Pioneers' home turf in Fairfield, CT.

But, Siena men's lacrosse head coach Liam Gleason and the rest of the Saints are confident that a lot has changed since the teams last met nearly two months ago and the team is playing its best lacrosse now when it matters most. 

The game will be available to watch on ESPN+ with Austin Rooney and Jackson Heil on the call. 

Live stats can be followed here as well as live updates and highlights through "X" @SienaLacrosse.  

For news, information and updates on the tournament, head to MAAC Championship Central that can be accessed here.

Tickets for the game may be purchased here.

The Saints men's lacrosse program is 7-2 all-time in MAAC Semifinal games and is 2-2 all-time in the head-to-head series with Sacred Heart. 

Siena eliminated SHU in last season's MAAC Quarterfinal Game at Hickey Field in the teams' lone playoff meeting. 

The Pioneers (11-4) are led by MAAC Co-Offensive Player of the Year Morgan O'Reilly, who has 63 points (49 goals and 13 assists) and MAAC First Team midfielder Carson Spooner (20 goals, 15 assists, 15 ground balls) and MAAC Long Stick of the Year Zach Buffington (43 ground balls, 12 caused turnovers) as well as the MAAC Coach of the Year Jonathan Basti, as voted on the league's head coaches. 

SHU is receiving votes in the latest USILA Division I Men's Lacrosse Coaches Poll.

Siena is led by MAAC Rookie of the Year and All-MAAC Second Team attack Caden Olmstead, who ranks third in the MAAC in goals with 39 and also has 11 assists and 18 ground balls. 

Junior Pratt Reynolds leads the team in goals with 42 while the defense has been flanked by a pair of All-MAAC selections in First Team choices in Brian Mack (32 ground balls, 27 caused turnovers) and Second Team selection Trevor Marsala (31 ground balls, 27 caused turnovers). 

In the faceoff "X", the projected match up will be Siena graduate student Dylan Pape (.542 win %) and All-MAAC Second Team faceoff specialist and junior Luke Romanek (.568 win %). 

In the team's previous match, face offs went slightly in favor of SHU with a 16-14 edge. 

Siena is seeking is eighth appearance in the MAAC Championship while Sacred Heart is looking to make its first trip.