AUBURNDALE, Fla. --  The College of St. Scholastica baseball team scored six runs through the first three innings and withstood a late Eastern Connecticut State University rally to post an 8-4 victory  Monday morning at Lake Myrtle Park.

The loss snaps a three-game winning streak for Eastern (6-2), ranked No. 4 in New England in the first poll, released today. The Warriors gave up only two runs over the final five innings and cut the gap by scoring four times in the last three innings. 

St. Scholastic (5-3) chased Eastern freshman starter Jason Staub (Portland) in the second inning, scoring five runs on six hits. Staub allowed only three earned runs, however, while fanning two without yielding a walk. Cleanup hitter Steven Neutzling tripled in two runs in a three-run first and No. 3 hitter Brian Minks delivered a two-run single in the second that ended Staub's day.

Winning pitcher Jason Dzubay (1-0), a junior lefty, tossed four shutout innings but the Warriors reached relievers Ben Christofferson and Seth Anderson for two runs apiece. A leadoff error and a two-out walk set up freshman Ryan Hood's (Arlington, MA) two-run double in the eighth and late-inning replacement Ivan Guadalupe (Farmington), batting ninth, socked his first career home run in the ninth.

Hood and Chad Adams (Ware, MA) each had two hits for Eastern, while Riley Bernsdorf drove in three runs for the Saints with a first-inning RBI single and a sixth-inning two-run triple.

Eastern faces Benedictine University Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Lake Myrtle Park.

Parkos Recognized as Little East Conference Rookie-of-the-Week

Freshman DH Alex Parkos (Meriden) was named Little East Conference Rookie-of-the-Week for the week ending this past Sunday. He led the Warriors to a 3-1 week by leading the team in batting average (.625), RBI (10), total bases (16) and on-base percentage (.667) as they raised their record to 6-1. The team's No. 5 hitter, Parkos was 4-for-5 with a double, five RBI and two runs scored in a 12-5 win over RIT. Prior to Monday's game against St. Scholastica, Parkos was leading the team in batting average (.483), RBI (13) and total bases (26).