ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The Siena Heights softball team dropped a pair of games against WHAC opponent Concordia on Thursday, 15-7 and 7-5.
The Saints will return to play with a conference doubleheader Saturday at Defiance. First pitch is 1 p.m.
Concordia 15, Siena Heights 7 (6 innings)
Faith Breinager, Lee Clinton and Shyann Truax hit home runs in a game, which featured six round-trippers from both teams combined.
Breinager and Clinton both went 2-for-4 at the plate. Breinager scored three runs and had one RBI. Clinton had two RBI and one run.
Liberti Fair batted 3-for-4 and scored a run. Lauren Dioszegi doubled.
Truax and Riley Hoover pitched for the Saints. Truax went the first 3 1/3 innings, followed by 2 1/3 from Hoover. Hoover had four strikeouts.
Clinton homered to right-center to tie the game at 2-2 in the third. Truax hit a bomb to center, tying the game at 3-3 during the fourth.
Concordia retook the lead for good with a 7-run fourth.
Siena Heights trimmed the margin to 10-6 in the fifth. Brooklyn Ross had an RBI single and Ellie Thelen and Dioszegi drew bases-loaded walks.
Breinager had a solo home run to left center in the sixth.
Concordia 7, Siena Heights 5
Clinton, Fair and Dioszegi homered in the second straight game that involved six home runs by the teams. The host Cardinals won in walk-off fashion on a two-run homer.
Clinton had a 3-for-4 game. She had a double and stole two bases.
Fair was 2-for-3 with a stolen base. Dioszegi scored twice, had two RBI and a double.
Cassi Kieper took the loss in the circle, finishing with two strikeouts.
Clinton put SHU (10-8, 0-2) up 1-0 with a solo homer to right-center in the first inning.
After CUAA tied the game 1-1 in the second, Breinager plated Dioszegi with a sacrifice fly in the fifth.
Fair pushed the SHU lead to 3-1 in the sixth with a bomb to right-center.
The Cardinals gained the lead for the first time with a 4-run sixth.
Dioszegi then answered in the seventh with her game-tying, two-run homer, knotting the game at 5-5.
