HARTFORD, Conn. – Rachael Smith drove in the only run of the game with a one-out single in the bottom of the seventh inning as Trinity College broke a 14-game losing streak at the hands of the Eastern Connecticut State University softball team and went on to a sweep Tuesday afternoon.

In the second game, Trinity (9-5) broke a tie in the sixth on a leadoff double by Elizabeth McQuaid and a two-out wild pitch. In the top of the seventh, Eastern (3-11) had runners on second and third with none out but winning pitcher Smith got two infield pops and a bases-loaded game-ending fly ball to center.

In the first game, losing pitcher Summer Cipriani (North Stonington) was victimized by consecutive infield erors in the seventh which set the stage for Smith's game-ending single. Cipriani (2-4) allowed nine hits and three walks without a strikeout in the complete-game effort.

Winning pitcher Cassie Armstrong (4-2) spaced three singles to record her second shutout in six starts in the opener. She fanned three and walked three. Armstrong retired the final seven hitters in order after Eastern threatened in the fifth on consecutive singles.

Playing its northern-openers, Eastern tied the second game with runs in the fourth and fifth. The Warriors scored an unearned run in the fourth on a one-out walk by senior All-America Alyssa Hancock (Waterford), stolen base,  and infield ground ball. In the fifth, Cipriani drove in the tying run with a two-out single. Junior centerfielder Samantha Bardos (Norwalk) walked to open the inning, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by junior rightfielder Danielle Robillard (Swansea, MA) and came home on Cipriani's second hit of the game. Robillard also had two hits in Eastern's six-hit attack.

Sophomore righty Haeli Campbell (Goffstown, NH)  sustained her third loss in as many decisions in the nightcap, allowing just one run in 3 1/3 innings of relief.

Eastern opens its Little East Conference season Saturday at noon, hosting the University of Massachusetts Boston in a noon doubleheader.