MANSFIELD, Conn. – Senior All-America shortstop Alyssa Hancock (Waterford) reached base safely eight times with six hits and two walks, scored seven runs and drove in five as the Eastern Connecticut State University softball team swept a non-conference doubleheader with the U.S. Coast Guard Academy by scores of 13-7 and 11-1 (5 inn.) Wednesday night at the Eastern Softball Stadium.

Among Hancock's six hits were three doubles and her third and fourth two home runs of the year as Eastern (9-13) collected 34 hits, 14 of them for extra bases (11 doubles, 3 home runs) in extending Coast Guard's (8-22) losing streak to five and giving the Warriors six wins in their last eight games.

On the night, junior DP Emily Komornik (Shelton) and junior second baseman Gina Georgetti (Milford) were both 5-for-7 with two runs and two RBI and junior utility Danielle Robillard (Swansea, MA) 5-for-8 with six RBI and two runs. Robillard and Georgetti each had two doubles. 

In a 19-hit first-game attack, Hancock reached five times and scored four runs. She singled and scored leading off the bottom of the first, belted a solo opposite-field home run leading off the second, doubled down the left field line and scored in the third, walked in the fifth and walked and scored in the sixth.  

Hancock helped the Warriors complete in the sweep in the second game by slamming a leadoff home run in the bottom of the first, doubling in two runs and scoring in the second, and doubling home another run and scoring when Eastern sent 11 batters to the plate and scored five runs on four doubles, three singles and a walk in the third. She was retired for the only time on a relatively deep fly ball to center in the fourth.

In the first game, Robillard had three hits and drove in four runs and Komornik was 4-for-5 with two RBI and a run scored. Georgetti was 4-for-4 with two doubles, two RBI and two runs scored.

Eastern held a slim 7-5 lead midway through the first game before tacking on an insurance run in the fourth by scoring after there were two out and none on when senior catcher Taylor Smyth (Meriden) was hit by pitch and Georgetti followed with an RBI double to center. The Warriors' five-run sixth broke the game open when the first seven batters reached safely. Junior first baseman Summer Cipriani (Stonington) led off with a long home run to center and Robillard later ripped a bases-clearing double to left-center.

Junior righty Samantha Valentine (Ridge, NY) pitched a complete-game one-hitter in the second game,  striking out four without a walk for her fourth win in seven decisions. Coast Guard's run came on a mammoth home run from Hayden Short  – her sixth of the year -- with two out in the first. Folowing the homer, Valentine allowed only two baserunners the rest of the way.

Komornik gained her first win in four pitching decisions in relief in the opener. She was summoned with Eastern leading in the third and went the rest of the way. Iin 4 2/3 innings, she allowed eight hits and three runs while fanning two and walking four.

Emma Hyozdovich had three hits and a walk and scored two and drove in two for the Bears on the day, with Short adding two hits and two RBI and a run scored.

A six-time defending Little East Conference regular-season champion, Eastern hosts Keene State College Saturday at 3 p.m. in a conference doubleheader.