FAIRFIELD, Conn. – With the Fairfield University baseball team down to its final out in this afternoon's Senior Day game against Siena, Brendan Tracy cracked a two-run home run to force the contest into extra innings. However, it was the visiting Saints who would scratch out a run in extra frames, taking the 11-inning decision in the rubber match of a three-game series by a score of 6-5.

The game wrapped up the 2015 campaign for Fairfield (17-32, 9-15 MAAC) and the careers of 11 student-athletes who were a part of 96 victories in four years with the Stags.

Tracy, who did not start the game but entered in the fifth as a pinch hitter, went 2-for-3 with the two-run shot highlighting his afternoon at the dish. Senior Alex Witkus added an RBI for the Stags, and classmate Sebastian Salvo added a 2-for-4 performance. Jake Salpietro also drove in a run.

Senior Billy Zolga added a hit in his final collegiate outing and threw out a runner from right field for the second straight game, and Dean Sadik also had a base-hit in his last game with the Stags. Sal Ciccone started his final game at shortstop and played a role in seven putouts – five assists and two taken himself.

EJ Ashworth started on the mound and shined in his collegiate finale. The right-hander ceded just one run in five scoreless innings before exiting with a 2-0 lead. Four relievers completed the effort on the bump, including seniors Ian Tresser, Tucker Panciera and Andrew Gallagher in the final action of their respective careers. Tim Duggan also tossed a scoreless frame of relief.

Siena (20-26, 13-8 MAAC) was led by two hits and three runs batted in from Joe Drpich, including the go-ahead RBI in the 11th inning. The Saints used five hurlers on the day, with Kyano Cummings bouncing back from the blown save on Tracy's home run with two perfect innings to close out the game and earn the win.

Kevin Radziewicz jumpstarted the Stags offense with a leadoff walk in the bottom of the first inning moved into scoring position with Salvo was hit by a pitch with one out. Two batters later, Salpietro singled through the left side to plate Radziewicz with the game's first run.

With Ashworth continuing to hang zeroes on the board, Fairfield added a run in the fourth frame. Michael Conti was hit by a pitch with one out and Witkus followed with a walk to put two runners aboard with two out. A hustle play then created a run for the Stags. Radziewicz chopped a ball toward the shortstop, and Witkus beat the flip to the second baseman. As the field umpire signaled Witkus safe, Conti turned the corner at third and slid home safely to extend the Fairfield lead to 2-0.

However, Siena would scratch out a run without the benefit of a hit in the sixth frame, and plated four more in the eighth to take a 5-2 lead.

The Stags took one back in the bottom of the eighth, starting with a Tracy single. After Sadik followed with a base-knock of his own, Witkus lined a single up the middle to plate Tracy and cut the deficit to 5-3.

Gallagher's scoreless ninth inning of work helped facilitate the Fairfield comeback in the bottom of the frame, which started with Salvo's leadoff single. After Cummings got a pair of strikeouts, Tracy blasted a 2-0 pitch over the fence in right field – his second roundtripper of the series and fifth of the spring – to knot the game at 5-5 and send it into extra innings.

Gallagher and Cummings traded zeroes in the 10th to extend the game further, and Siena struck in the 11th frame. Kyle Dube (4-4) and the Stags nearly escaped the jam, as Drew Arciuolo's arm in left field turned a potential sacrifice fly into a double play with Radziewicz applying the tag at the plate after a perfect throw from the freshman. However, Drpich came through with the two-out RBI single to put the Saints on top, 6-5. The Stags would go down in order in the bottom of the inning to cap the game three hours and 30 minutes after it began.

In addition to the nine seniors who took the field today for the final time as Fairfield Stags, pitchers Anthony DiMauro and Jeremy Soule both toed the rubber yesterday in game one of the series with the Saints.