Staten Island, NY - The Wagner baseball team suffered a 4-3 home loss to Merrimack on Saturday at SIUH Community Park, dropping it to 9-3 in conference play and handing it its first conference series loss.

After losing the second of two games during Friday's doubleheader, the Seahawks came up short in a back-and-forth affair against the Warriors.

Wagner took an early 1-0 lead in the first and held that lead until a two-run sixth put Merrimack on top. Freshman Diego Tavarez scored the tying run in the next half inning on a sacrifice fly before some miscues by the Warriors in the seventh allowed graduate student David Melfi to score.

Leading 3-2 late, the Warriors threatened with two runners in scoring position with one out. But after seeing the tying run score on a groundout, graduate student Alec Burnett came into the fray to shut down the potential game-winning run.

Burnett got through the ninth with little stress, picking off the lone baserunner to reach first base. However, after the Green & White failed to capitalize on back-to-back singles to start the ninth, the visitors homered to start extra innings to take the conclusive 4-3 lead.

Junior Albert Serrano and Melfi each collected four hits on the day. Sophomore Ryan Bilka struck out seven batters in a five-inning start.

Wagner will take on NJIT in its next matchup on Wednesday, April 3 at 7:00 pm.