ADRIAN, Mich. -- The Siena Heights baseball team finishes its season with a split against WHAC opponent Rochester, losing the opener 5-4 before winning the second game 8-5, on Sunday at McLaughlin Stadium.

Game one: Rochester 5, SHU 4

The Saints trailed 5-1 with only six outs to play and scratched across three runs before the rally fell short.

Nick Tiller (triple) and Thomas Bakoway had two-hit games for the Saints. Matt Love and Jacob Jackson added doubles.

Adam Wilding was SHU's starting pitcher, going the first six innings. He gave up five runs on nine hits while totaling four strikeouts and zero walks.

Ryan Sullivan worked one inning of scoreless relief.

A sacrifice fly by Bakoway helped the Saints forge a 1-1 tie in the first inning. The visiting Warriors eventually took the lead for good with a four-run sixth.

After Rochester went up four runs, Love had a two-run double in the SHU sixth. In the seventh, the Saints had runners on first and second with nobody out before their rally ended.

Game two: SHU 8, Rochester 5

Mabe had a three-hit game as the Saints overcame a two-run deficit to finish the 2023 campaign with a comeback win.

Collin Bammer added two hits while Wilding homered and drove in two runs.

Siena Heights took the first lead, 2-0, in the first inning. Mabe had an RBI single in the inning.

Thomas Lamnek drove in the Saints' third run via RBI fielder's choice in the third.

Rochester scored its five runs via the long ball: four on a third-inning grand slam and one on a fourth-inning solo shot which put the Warriors up 5-3.

After that, SHU scored the final five runs.

Wilding blasted a solo homer to right-center in the fifth. Later in the frame, an RBI single by Collin Bammer tied the game at 5-5.

The Saints scored three times in the sixth, starting with a Wilding sac fly. Anthony Scali added an RBI single later in the inning as SHU went up 8-5.

Garret Smith was the winning pitcher, working six innings of relief with a brief rain delay during his outing. Smith gave up one run on two hits while recording five strikeouts and one walk.