CLERMONT, Fla. –Junior lefty Summer Cipriani (North Stonington) tossed a complete-game five-hitter for her first career shutout and drove in a run in a three-run first inning as the Eastern Connecticut State University softball team downed Millikin University, 5-0, Friday afternoon at the National Training Center.

Eastern's (3-9) scheduled 3 p.m. game against Colby College (3-4) was delayed by rain.

A winner of two straight decisions, Cipriani (2-3) faced only six batters over the minimum. She scattered five singles without a walk and with one strikeout in a game which lasted only one hour and 42 minutes. Cipriani retired the first eight batters she faced and did not allow a runner to advance into scoring position until the fifth inning, when an infield error and single put runners on the corners with two out and the Warriors leading, 4-0.

Senior third baseman Samantha Rentz (Griswold) drove in the first run in the three-run first with a single which plated junior righfielder Danielle Robillard (Swansea, MA),  who had reached on a one-out bunt single, and Cipriani sent home junior centerfielder Samantha Bardos (Norwalk) with a double through the right-center field gap. Rentz scored the third run on junior second baseman Gina Georgetti's (Milford) infield ground ball.

Eastern made it 4-0 in the fourth on junior DP Kristyn Ryan's (Barkhamsted) leadoff double and Robillard's single past third base and added a final run in the seventh on a leadoff double by Bardos  and a throwing error by catcher Alyssa Voegele attempting to pick her off third.

Four of Eastern's eight hits were doubles. Robillard had two hits and leadoff hitter Alyssa Hancock (Waterford) reached three times on two walks and a leadoff triple in the sixth.