Lourdes rallied with six runs in the top of the ninth to defeat Siena Heights 9-5 on Sunday afternoon and moved back to .500 on the season with the victory at the SHU Baseball Diamond in Adrian, Mich.
 
At 14-14, this is the latest in a season the Gray Wolves have been at .500 in program history.
 
"The team never gave up today," head coach Jeremy Snow said afterwards.  "We had tough luck early offensively, with hard hit balls right at defenders.  Credit our hitters for not getting discouraged and they kept grinding out quality at bats.  It was a very exciting way to win the game coming from behind the way we did with a two-out rally."
 
Siena Heights took the lead with a two-out double in the opening inning that plated a pair of runs and added another in the third on a groundout.
 
Jay Denman's (Toledo, Ohio/Saint Francis de Sales H.S.) RBI single with two outs on the fifth put the Gray Wolves on the scoreboard, scoring Reilly Walters (Bowmanville, Ont./Bowmanville H.S.), who had doubled.
 
The Saints increased their lead to 5-1 with single tallies in both the fifth and sixth innings before Lourdes began its comeback.  Denman's two-out double in the seventh scored a pair of runs, and the Gray Wolves kept the deficit at two heading into the ninth.
 
George Pastor (Walled Lake, Mich./Central H.S.) led off the inning with a double and scored one batter later on a single by Cole Cantelon (Langley, B.C./Brookswood Secondary H.S.).  After a pair of walks loaded the bases, Dallas Riggs (Prescott, Ariz./Bradshaw Mountain H.S.) put Lourdes in front with a base hit that scored two, and Glen Crabtree (Medina, Ohio/Black River H.S.) followed with a two-run single.
 
Denman, Crabtree, and Cantelon all had two hits as part of the Gray Wolves' 11-hit game.
 
Jake Tucker (Tucson, Ariz./Canyon Del Oro H.S.) earned the win (2-0) with two innings of scoreless relief while Tristan Roth suffered the loss (2-5), allowing four runs and two hits in two-thirds of an inning.
 
"I'm very pleased with the job our bullpen did," Snow added.  "It's been a rough go for them lately and they competed hard in the zone today."
 
Lourdes (14-14, 5-10 WHAC) and Siena Heights (13-20, 6-8) will close out their abbreviated two-game series on Monday evening, with another single game beginning at 5 p.m. at the SHU Baseball Diamond.