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LOUDONVILLE, N.Y. – Receiving five hits from redshirt-sophomore
Ian Fair, the Northeastern baseball team led during the entirety of Saturday afternoon's doubleheader against Siena, winning game one, 6-4, despite losing game two, 4-3, to Zach Durfee's two-RBI, walk-off single.
Northeastern (21-25) registered a season high, 15 hits, during the opening game, knocking 11 against the Saints' starter Tommy Miller, who lasted four and two-thirds innings. Fair contributed four hits to the Huskies' cause, singling during each of his first four plate appearances.
After NU had scored just one run during the third inning with five hits, the Huskies rallied for five two-out runs during the fifth inning, swinging six hits while capitalizing on two errors.
Jake Farrell followed his third-inning RBI single with the two-out single that prompted Northeastern's five-run frame. Two batters later,
Scott Holzwasser crushed a three-run home run to left field, widening the Huskies' lead to 4-0.
David Stiehl retired Siena (14-27) in order during the fifth inning to protect the Huskies' 6-0 edge, but ran into trouble during the sixth inning, when Alex Milone and Yasser Santana cracked a pair of two-RBI singles that trimmed the NU lead to 6-4.
Brandon Dufault relieved Stiehl and collected seven outs from seven batters faced while
Andrew Misiaszek stranded the Saints' potential winning run at the plate to earn his ninth save of the season.
Saturday's game two featured a pitchers' duel between Northeastern's
Sean Mellen and Siena's Brendan White. Mellen fired 10 strikeouts across seven innings pitched, walking none, while White kept the Huskies to a run and four hits through six innings of work.
Corey DiLoreto led off the game with a first-pitch triple, scoring two batters later as Farrell lifted a sacrifice fly to left field. Siena answered the run immediately, swinging three straight leadoff singles against Mellen to knot the game at 1-1.
Northeastern broke the stalemate during the seventh inning, when
Jake Rosen rounded the bases without a hit, reaching as a hit batsman. Again, the Saints held the answer, receiving timely singles by Devan Kruzinski and Tim Carroll that drove in the tying run.
Rosen's ninth-inning leadoff single created the artillery that allowed NU to take the late, 3-2 lead.
John Mazza moved Rosen into scoring position with his second of two sacrifice bunts, setting the stage for
Cam Walsh to deliver the go-ahead RBI single to right field.
Siena loaded the bases in response, earning the winning hit as Durfee connected on Misiaszek's 2-0 pitch for a two-RBI single.
