LOUDONVILLE, NY – Trey Dombroski broke the program's single-season record for strikeouts, and James Harmstead tied the single-season home run mark, but Siena College (11-33, 8-12 MAAC) scored seven times in the eighth inning to steal the middle game from Monmouth University Baseball (23-23, 11-8 MAAC) Saturday, 8-3.
 
Monmouth scored twice in the second, the latter coming on a Casey Caufield RBI single to make it 2-0. After Dombroski fanned three in a row in the second, Dombroski broke Pat Light's single-season program record for strikeouts with his 103^rd of the season in the third. Siena scratched a run across in the fourth, but Dombroski struck out the final batter he faced in the seventh to exit with a 2-1 lead.
 
Harmstead led off the eighth with his 17^th home run of the season, tying the program single-season record, to make it 3-1. However, Siena rallied with a seven-run, seven-hit eighth to lead 8-3, a lead they would hold to secure the win.
 
NOTES AND QUOTES

"Not the outcome we wanted.  We played hard.  The guys will show up tomorrow ready to play." - Head Coach Dean Ehehalt 

-Dombroski struck out his 103^rd batter of the year, passing Pat Light for the program single-season record set in 2012.
-Harmstead's 17^th homer ties him for the single-season record with Paul Bottigliero (2009).
-Dombroski posted his fifth double-digit strikeout game of the season.
-Caufield had multiple hits for the second game in a row.
 
NUMBERS CRUNCH
-Siena outhit Monmouth 10-9.
-Seven different Hawks registered a hit in the game.
-Stephen Aldrich took the loss for MU.
-Ben Seiler threw eight innings to get the win for the Saints.
 
UP NEXT
-The teams wrap the series up tomorrow at Siena at 2:00 p.m. on ESPN3.