BROCKTON, Mass. --  Senior righty Evan Chamberlain (Amston) struck out ten in seven innings of the opener and senior lefty Tom Darby (Middletown, RI) followed with ten of his own and allowed only one hit in eight innings of the nightcap to propel the Eastern Connecticut State University baseball team to a 2-0, 4-0 doubleheader sweep of Little East Conference leader University of Massachusetts Boston Saturday afternoon at Campanelli Stadium.

A winner of four straight, Eastern (17-8-1, 3-3 LEC)  did not commit an error on the day, and five pitchers combined for 23 strikeouts and only one walk in handing UMass Boston (10-13, 4-2 LEC) its fifth loss in its last six outings. It marked the first Little East doubleheader shutout  since All-America pitchers and eventual professional players Ryan DiPietro and Joey Serfass started in a 7-0, 13-0 blanking at UMass Dartmouth April 17, 2004.

Both Chamberlain (5-1) and Darby (4-1) were coming off their first losses of the season last Saturday against 2012 LEC champion University of Southern Maine, the setback the first in the career of Darby.

Against UMass Boston, Chamberlain scattered three hits while striking out ten, walking one and hitting one batter, and sophomore transfer Chuck Vogt (Windsor Locks) and Matt Purnell (Stafford Springs) pitched one scoreless inning apiece to nail down the win. Purnell gave up two hits in the ninth but was credited with his fifth save.

In the second game, Darby fanned ten and hit one batter without a walk in facing two batters over the minimum before Purnell closed it out with a hitless ninth, lowering his ERA to 1.52. Darby retired the first eight batters of the game before No. 9 hitter Bryan Falla singled  on a 2-2 offering with two out in the third for the Beacons' only hit. Darby followed by retiring the next 14 in order before hitting a batter. He struck out the side in the fifth during that stretch.

In the opener, Eastern scored once in the third and once in the fifth against complete-game loser Kyle Szatrowski (4-1), who lost his first decision despite giving up only six hits and one earned run. With one out in the third, junior transfer Nik Ververis (Plainfield), batting ninth, reached on an error and later scored on junior third baseman Mike Vaccarelli's (Wolcott)  two-out double. In the fifth, Ververis again got things going with a leadoff single, moved to second on Vaccarelli's single, and scored on senior first baseman Joe Balowski's (Berlin) sacrifice fly. Vaccarelli finished with three hits.

In the nightcap, Eastern scored three times in the third. Ververis walked and rode home with the first run on Lynch's double. Vaccarelli followed with a single and Lynch raced home from third on senior second baseman Drew Accomando's (Monroe) sacrifice fly. Senior centerfielder Mike Riemer (Ellington) plated Vaccarelli with a double.

Lynch (two RBI) and Vaccarelli each had two hits in Eastern's ten-hit attack and Ververis matches his first-game production with two runs.

Eastern visits Trinity College Monday at 3:30 p.m.