LOUDONVILLE, N.Y. – Fresh off a program rebirth last season, Siena baseball looks to take the next step in Year Three of the Alex Jurczynski Era. The Saints have announced their 52-game regular season schedule, highlighted by the program’s most home dates in 18 years.
For the twelfth time in the past 15 non-conference seasons, the Siena Baseball campaign will kick off in Orlando against Big 12 foe Central Florida. The season-opening three-game weekend series commences on Friday, Feb. 13 at 6 p.m., matching the earliest-ever calendar opener in program history (2015).
Siena then faces its first of three NCAA Tournament teams from a season ago when the Saints take on perennial Atlantic Coast Conference power Wake Forest for a three-game set Feb. 20-22 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The Demon Deacons are ranked 21st in the D1Baseball Preseason Top-25.
Siena bookends the opening month of action with a three-game neutral site weekend series Feb. 27 – March 1 against regional foe Massachusetts at Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen, Maryland.
For the second straight season, the Saints will make their Capital Region debut with both the earliest-ever home and Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference openers in program history. Siena is set to host defending MAAC Tournament Champion Fairfield, March 6-8 at Connors Park to kick off a 21-game home slate, the program’s most in 18 years since playing 24 total home contests during the 2008 season.
The Saints will face the MAAC gauntlet early, with their second league series on the road against perennial league power and last season’s runner-up, Rider (March 13-15), before returning home to host Niagara, which captured the 2024 league crown, March 20-22 in Loudonville.
For the second straight season, Siena will play a 30-game league slate, with three-game weekend series against 10 of their 12 MAAC foes while having byes against both Merrimack and Quinnipiac.
In addition to Fairfield and Niagara, the Saints are also set to host league rivals Mount St. Mary’s (April 2-4), Saint Peter’s (May 1-3) and Iona (May 8-10) at Connors Park this spring. In MAAC road action, Siena will travel to take on the aforementioned Broncs, I-87 rival Marist (Mar. 27-29), Manhattan (Apr. 10-12), Sacred Heart (April 24-26), and Canisius (May 13-15) to close out regular season action.
Following the opening month of the season, the Saints will play a fourth and final non-conference weekend series as part of an overall four-game series against crosstown rival UAlbany. The squads are set to split a weekend series April 17-19 – with the Friday and Sunday games at Siena and middle Saturday game at UAlbany – with a fourth and final game at Connors Park the following Tuesday, April 21.
In non-conference midweek action, Siena will host Stony Brook (March 24), defending Northeast Conference Regular Season Champion LIU (March 31), and Massachusetts (April 28). Midweek road non-conference action features trips to Maryland Eastern Shore (March 3), Stony Brook (March 10), reigning America East Tournament Champion Binghamton (March 17), Le Moyne (April 7), Dartmouth (April 15), and Princeton (April 29).
For the first time in a decade, the 2026 MAAC Baseball Championships return to Wappingers Falls, New York at the now-named Heritage Financial Park. The top-six finishers will qualify for the double-elimination MAAC Tournament, which is set to be contested May 20-23.
The Saints are looking to build upon the program’s most successful season in a decade. Siena welcomes back a veteran squad – featuring the return of eight of nine position players from a season ago – while welcoming 11 newcomers (six freshmen, five transfers) to a program that achieved its most overall wins (22) in nine years, while equaling its most league victories in 11 years (17) last spring.