MANSFIELD, Conn. – Sophomore Samantha Rentz (Griswold) ended the game with a  suicide squeeze bunt in the bottom of the seventh inning to lift the Eastern Connecticut State Univeristy softball team to a 2-1victory over Wesleyan University in the first game of a non-conference doubleheader and the Warriors went on to their fifth sweep in 11 days with a 10-2 second-game win stopped after six innings due to the eight-run rule.

At right: Shortstop Alyssa Hancock compiled nine fielding assists in Wednesday's sweep of Wesleyan. (Photo by Heather Avery).

A winner of ten straight, Eastern (17-9)  won the game in the seventh when freshman Tyler Keegan (Middletown)  led off with a double and moved to third on senior Stephanie Johnson's (Plantsville) bunt single. Losing pitcher  Susan Pardo got a strikeout for the first out, but Rentz  ended the game by plating Hancock with her suicide squeeze bunt.

The teams traded runs in the first inning, Wesleyan (9-15_ scoring an unearned run in its first at-bat when Angelina Massoia doubled with one out and scored on Eastern's two-out infield error. Junior Sam Rossetti's (Shelton) single to right-center drove in senior Mattie Brett (Waterford) with the tying run in the bottom of the inning after Pardo had retired the first two batters.

Freshman Summer Cipriani (North Stonington) allowed only one hit over the final three innings to gain her third win in five decisions in place of sophomore Emily Komornik (Shelton), who gave up only one unearned run on four hits through the first four innings. Pardo (7-7) struck out seven without a walk, allowing nine hits.

Eastern stretched its unbeaten streak to nine (8-0-1) against Wesleyan with the second-game win.   Batting leadoff, Brett doubled and triple and scored two runs, Rentz reached three times with two hits and also had  a sacrifice fly, and freshman Samantha Bardos (Norwalk) had three hits and drove in two runs in the 15-hit attack.

Freshman Sam Valentine (Ridge, NY) pitched the six-inning complete game in the nightcap -- her fourth in five decisions -- giving up six hits and one earned run while fanning two without a walk.

Eastern hosts Rhode Island College Saturday at 2 p.m. in a Little East Conference doubleheader.