Siena Baseball has won three consecutive MAAC series for the first time in six years. The Saints scored eight total runs in the ninth and tenth innings combined to rally past Saint Peter's with a series-clinching 10-5 victory in 10 innings in Jersey City, New Jersey.
 
Winners of seven of their last 10, surging Siena (13-22, 9-8) has now clinched three straight MAAC series victories for the first time since besting Quinnipiac, Iona, and Niagara in succession in April and May of 2019. All three of those series came at home, while the Saints have won two of three series this time on the road.
 
Trailing 4-2 and down to their final out in the ninth, Jake Sparks laced the first pitch he saw into the right field corner for a bases-clearing three-run double, as Aidan Paradine slid in just ahead of the tag at home to score the go-ahead run.
 
Sean Martinez, who broke a 2-2 deadlock with a two-run home run in the seventh, delivered the game-tying RBI double with Saint Peter's (8-25, 4-12) down to their final strike in the home half of the ninth.  
 
But Siena would not be denied in the extras. The Saints batted around sending 11 men to the plate in the decisive tenth, tallying five runs on five hits to improve to 3-0 in extra innings this season. Owen Pincince plated the go-ahead run with a seeing-eye single up the middle, while freshman Josh Thompson, who led all players with three hits, left no doubt with a two-run single to cap the rally and double the advantage.
 
Fresh off his first career complete game, Noah Rodriguez followed it up by going eight strong with seven strikeouts for Siena, which surpassed both last year's overall and conference win total with the victory, with a month still left in the regular season. The Saints nine MAAC wins are the programs most in four years, when they played an exclusive 36-game regular season league schedule during the 2021 COVID campaign.
 
Siena will once again try to secure its first series sweep of the season when weekend action concludes Saturday at 1 p.m.