ADRIAN, Mich. -- The Siena Heights baseball team dropped a pair of Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference contests to Northwestern Ohio -- 15-6 and 10-9 -- at the SHU Baseball Diamond on Tuesday.
The Saints trailed 11-1 through the first three innings of the nine-inning game one and never recovered.
Logan Curtis batted 2-for-4 with a home run and four RBI. Drew Milligan doubled, tripled and scored two runs.
Also for SHU, Mike Lollo (triple) and Joe Williams had 2-for-3 games. Eric Henderson added a triple.
Curtis provided the Saints' first run during the second inning, smacking an RBI single that trimmed Siena Heights' deficit to 6-1 at the time.
Curtis later hammered a two-run home run over the wall in left field, cutting UNOH's lead to 11-3 in the fourth. Williams added an RBI single in the fifth, pulling the Saints into an 11-4 deficit.
SHU's final two scores came on a Lollo RBI single in the seventh and a Curtis RBI groundout in the eighth.
Jordan Basinger was credited as the losing pitcher for Siena Heights.
Northwestern Ohio pounded out 15 hits on offense. It was led by Ben Schubert, who batted 3-for-5 with a homer, double and five RBI.
Also for the Racers, Alex Leach went 3-for-4 with three runs and an RBI while Brett Akins finished 3-for-5 with two triples, three runs and one RBI.
Jose Cruz (double) and Cory Cook added two hits each for UNOH.
Winning pitcher Pichi Torres threw six innings. He allowed four runs on eight hits while recording three strikeouts and two hit batsmen.
In game two, which extended into an extra eighth inning, Siena Heights totaled 17 hits. Trailing 7-3 in the sixth, the Saints rallied for five runs to take an 8-7 lead, but ultimately fell in extras.
Williams batted 3-for-5 while Lollo (double), Dan Muller and Nolan Herendeen (double) had 2-for-5 games. Curtis finished 2-for-4 with two doubles, a stolen base and three RBI. Alec Duncan also went 2-for-4 while Drew Byers (double) finished 2-for-3.
Duncan and Muller had RBI singles in the second before Muller tacked on another run-scoring single in the fourth. At that point, SHU had cut its deficit to 4-3.
After UNOH plated three runs in the fifth, the Saints responded with a five-run sixth. Curtis smashed a two-run double, Lollo and Henderson smacked RBI doubles, and Williams had an RBI single. Lollo's hit gave SHU an 8-7 lead.
The Racers (28-14, 16-6) answered with tying and go-ahead runs in their half of the seventh before a Curtis RBI in the SHU seventh forced extra innings.
Northwestern Ohio took the lead for good in the eighth on a sacrifice fly by Cook.
SHU pitcher Kyle Kuhr suffereed the loss. He pitched two innings. The only run scored against Kuhr was unearned.
Tyler Eaton, who was brought on to close the game for UNOH in the seventh, earned the win with two innings of work.
Ben Schubert led the Racer offense, going 3-for-4 with a double, triple, run and three RBI. Randal Muhlenkamp added two doubles, Leach scored three runs and Jose Gonzalez homered. Akins and Brandon Collins contributed triples.
The Saints (15-23, 4-14) will return to action on Wednesday with their home finale -- a 2 p.m. WHAC doubleheader against Madonna.
