JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. - Graduate right-hander Ryan Packard allowed just one run over 6.0 innings and Binghamton baseball (3-4) packed its scoring into the first two frames for a 3-2 win over Siena (1-6) Friday afternoon at Thomas Stadium on the campus of East Tennessee State University. 

The win, Binghamton's third in its last four games, kicked off a weekend that will also include Saturday and Sunday games against the host Bucs.

On Friday, Packard (1-0, 1.20 ERA) scattered four hits and one run with three strikeouts and the Bearcats plated one run in the first inning and their final two runs in the second. Up 3-0, Binghamton withstood single runs from the Saints in the fifth and eighth innings. Sophomore reliever Hayden Tarsia recorded a strikeout to strand the tying run in the eighth and sophomore closer Jackson Mitchell worked around a two-out single in the ninth to earn his first save of the season.

The designated home team in the neutral game, the Bearcats jumped ahead quickly when senior left fielder and leadoff hitter Logan Haskell took a 2-0 pitch over the left field wall in the bottom of the first. 

In the second, graduate first baseman Freddy Forgione led off with a double down the left field line. Senior catcher Zach Rogacki (2-for-4) singled and junior second baseman Zack Kent brought in Forgione with an RBI groundout for a 2-0 lead. Kent then stole second and scored on a two-out RBI double by freshman right fielder Sam Miller.    

The Bearcats seemed on the cusp of breaking the game open in the early innings but left five stranded in the first five frames. 

Binghamton faces ETSU at noon Saturday with freshman Brady Bouchard (1-0, 5.40 ERA) on the hill.