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Baseball Throws One-Hit Shutout In Home Opener, Ends Day With Split Versus UM-Dearborn

Baseball Throws One-Hit Shutout In Home Opener, Ends Day With Split Versus UM-Dearborn

ADRIAN, Mich. -- The Siena Heights baseball team played its first two 2026 games on the McLaughlin Baseball Field, splitting a WHAC doubleheader with Michigan-Dearborn. Individual recaps are below.

 

Game 1: Siena Heights 8, Michigan-Dearborn 0 (7 innings)
Siena Heights pitchers Jimmy Haranczak and John Millen combined on a 1-hit shutout. Haranczak opened the game, going two no-hit innings with three strikeouts, two walks and one hit batsman. Millen finished up the next five frames, allowing the lone hit and totaling five strikeouts and two walks.
 
For the offense, Aidan Grinstead batted 2-for-2 with a walk. Braxton Mustiful scored two runs.
 
SHU jumped in front with a 3-run first inning and led from there. Mason Mitchell had an RBI single before Mason Baer and Wyatt Burris drove in runs later in the inning. Baer reached on an error, but was credited an RBI. Burris hit a sac fly.
 
Burris added an RBI single in the third.
 
Siena Heights tacked on four insurance runs in the sixth. Jack Semler had a sacrifice fly, Mitchell drew a bases-loaded walk, Zander Zeiter was hit by a pitch with the bags packed, and Baer collected an RBI on a fielder's-choice play.
 
The Saints had five stolen bases as Semler had two steals while Burris, Baer and Pablo Arnaud thieved one base each.
 
 
Game 2: Michigan-Dearborn 3, Siena Heights 1 (9 innings)
Zeiter and Jaozef Del Rosario Zeiter batted 2-for-4; each had a double. Zeiter collected an RBI.
 
Mil Ramsey and Mason Mitchell had two stolen bases each.
 
Pearson Mendiuk worked 4 1/3 innings of scoreless relief. He struck out two while allowing three walks and two hits.
 
Dearborn held a 2-0 lead before SHU scored its lone run in the second as Zeiter plated Mitchell with a double.
 
The Wolverines scored an insurance run in the ninth.