ADRIAN, Mich. -- The Siena Heights baseball team earned an 11-9 comeback win over Indiana Tech before dropping a 5-3 decision in a Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference split at the SHU Baseball Diamond on Saturday.

In game one, Marcus Stewart (Clinton, Mich./Clinton) delivered a go-ahead, two-run double and B.J. Salazar (Lansing, Mich./Lansing Eastern) provided an RBI single for insurance purposes as the Saints used a three-run eighth inning to take the lead for good against the Warriors.

Jake Kret (Wyandotte, Mich./Roosevelt), who entered in the eighth, finished the game in the ninth to earn the win.

The Saints (8-18, 5-9) trailed early, 3-0, before erupting for eight runs in the third frame.

Ben Christian gave the visiting Warriors (23-11, 13-5) a 1-0 lead with his RBI groundout in the first. Jake Owens then followed with a two-run home run during the second as Indiana Tech snagged a 3-0 lead.

Then, SHU came back with eight consecutive scores. During the outburst, Eric Henderson (Howell, Mich./Howell) had a two-run single and Corey Caldwell (Ypsilanti, Mich./Lincoln) smashed an RBI double.

Salazar, Mike Lollo (Allen Park, Mich./Cabrini), Kyle Benschoter (Hudson, Mich./Hudson) and Daniel Abbott (Plymouth, Mich./Lutheran Westland) added RBI singles in the Siena Heights third. Nolan Herendeen (Grass Lake, Mich./Grass Lake) drove in a run with a groundout.

Indiana Tech battled back with a run in the fourth on a Jacob Dunnichay single and then one in the fifth on a bases-loaded walk by Owens, trimming the Warriors' deficit to 8-5.

Then, Tech pushed across four in the eighth -- one via error, one on a single by Eric Wald and two on a double by Ignatius Mackenzie -- to take a 9-8 advantage and set the stage for SHU's comeback.

Jake Sperry (Livonia, Mich./Westland John Glenn) started on the mound for Siena Heights, going 4 1/3 innings, before Ben Finn (Dexter, Mich./Dexter) labored three relief innings ahead of Kret's entrance.

Henderson, Abbott and Salazar went 3-for-5 each. Henderson had two runs and two RBI, Salazar had one run and two RBI, and Abbott compiled one run and one RBI.

Caldwell added his two doubles, going 2-for-5 with one RBI. Stewart (double) added two runs scored and two RBI while Lollo batted 2-for-5 with one run and one RBI.

For Indiana Tech, Mackenzie (double), Jacob Dunnichay (triple) and Bryan Brudi had two hits each. Relief pitcher Kyle Nolen was the losing pitcher.

In game two, SHU starting pitcher Matt King (Rockville, Ind./Rockville) went the distance, allowing five runs (four earned) on six hits while totaling four strikeouts and four walks, but the Saints were unable to push for a second comeback.

SHU took the lead in the first on a two-run single by Herendeen, but the Warriors had eventual responses in the fourth and fifth innings.

Mackenzie smacked an RBI single and Wald drove a sacrifice fly as Indiana Tech pulled even at 2-2 in the fourth.

Then, in the fifth, Tyler Dennison hammered an RBI double and Christian hit an RBI single as the Warriors went up, 4-2.

SHU answered with a run of its own in the fifth as Caldwell had an RBI single, but the run turned out to be the last score for the Saints.

Indiana Tech increased its lead to 5-3 by scoring on an error in the seventh.

Herendeen had a 2-for-3 game while both Lollo and Benschoter went 2-for-4.

For the Warriors, Christian went 2-for-4, Daniel Puckett was the winning pitcher and Josh Fisher earned the save.

The Saints and Warriors will meet again on Sunday for a 1 p.m. WHAC doubleheader.