ADRIAN, Mich. – The Indiana Tech baseball team swept Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference (WHAC) Siena Heights on Saturday afternoon at the SHU Baseball Diamond, winning 13-10 in game one and 13-7 in game two in their penultimate day of conference play.
 
The Saints jumped out to a 2-0 lead over the Warriors in the bottom of the first, but Tech answered right back with five runs in the second and three more in the third to take an 8-2 lead. Dominic Giuliani started off the scoring with an RBI single while Reese Olden knotted the game up at 2-2 two batters later as he also delivered an RBI single. A Matt Bandor double gave Tech a 4-2 lead in the second while Olden drove in two more runs in the third to make it a 7-2 game.
 
Siena Heights came back with four runs on five hits and an error, in the fourth to chase Nate McBroom from the mound, but a Glen McClain double tied the game up at 9-9 in the fifth while a Dillin Diehm RBI groundout gave the visitors the lead back in the sixth. The hosts cut the deficit to 13-10 in the ninth, but Joe Pratt worked out of the two-base runner jam to preserve the 13-10 win.
 
Olden and McClain both went 3-6 with three RBI's while Giuliani went 2-4 with two RBI's and two runs. Bandor went 3-4 with three doubles and three runs while RJ Gaines notched his second win of the season while throwing 4.1 shutout innings in relief.
 
The Saints would jump out to another early lead in game two as they scored three runs in the first off of Jason Sterrett, but Tech notched a pair of runs in the second and third to take a 4-3 lead, with Tighe Koehring delivering a one-out double to give the visitors the lead. Siena Heights knotted the game up in the fourth, but a two-RBI single from Diehm gave the visitors a 6-4 lead in the next half inning.
 
The hosts cut the deficit down to 8-6 in the seventh, but a five-run eighth inning from the Orange and Black put the game out of reach, with Koehring and Ryan Meisenheimer delivering RBI singles in the frame.
 
Sterrett improved to 8-1 on the season after going 6.2 innings on the mound, allowing six runs on 10 hits while striking out seven. Koehring went 5-5 with four RBI's while Matt Bandor was 3-6.
 
Tech (35-17, 23-4 WHAC) returns to action Sunday as they conclude their trip to Adrian with another doubleheader starting at 1 p.m. from the SHU Baseball Diamond and the chance to clinch the regular season WHAC title for the first time 2012. The first game will be a conference game, while the second will be a seven-inning nonconference matchup.