MANSFIELD, Conn. – Keene State College senior righty Mariah Crisp  returned to the field where she earned Little East Conference MVP honors as a sophomore  and limited Eastern Connecticut State University to one earned run in a pair of complete-game pitching efforts in her team's 4-0, 3-2 victories Saturday afternoon at the Eastern Softball Stadium.

Keene (11-11, 5-1 LEC), playing on Eastern's field for the tenth and 11^th straight times, rode Crisp's (7-5)  three-hit shutout in the opener for her second shutout this year in ten starts, and scattered six hits in the nightcap, when Eastern senior cleanup hitter Samantha Rentz (Griswold) spoiled her bid for a second straight shutout with a two-out home run in the sixth that cut the Owls' lead to 3-2. Crisp got a pair of popups to end the threat, then ended the game by getting Eastern senior All-America Alyssa Hancock (Waterford) on a sharp line drive right at senior Stephanie Long in center to end the game and strand the tying run at second base.

Five Eastern errors on the day produced three unearned runs as the Warriors were swept at home by an LEC opponent for the second time in seven days.

Crisp, who pitched all 28 of her team's innings and won all four of her starts in the 2014 LEC tournament at the Eastern Softball Stadium, faced only four batters over the minimum  in dealing Eastern (9-15, 2-4 LEC)  its fourth shutout of the year in the opener. Crips fanned six and walked only one, with her outfielders called upon for only three putouts.

Keene scored two in the first and two in the third against complete-game loser Samantha Valentine (Ridge, NY) in the opener, with No. 3 hitter Heather Pelletier (Auburn, NH) driving in two unearned runs in the first with a single, and No. 4 hitter Morgan Fallon (Reading, MA) drilling her first home run of the season -- a two-run home run to left to make it 4-0 in the third.

 Eastern junior lefty Summer Cipriani (North Stonington) dominated the Owls with a four-hitter in a complete-game loss in the nightcap, fanning four without a walk. A leadoff walk and one-out error gave Keene a 1-0 lead in the first and the Owls tacked on an additional run in the fourth on Fallon's leadoff double and sophomore Shae Crosby's (Salem) two-out single and one more in the fifth on a hit batter, sac bunt, single and wild pitch.

In the doubleheader, Long was 4-for-6 and scored two runs, Fallon adding three hits, two RBI and two runs scored and Pelletier two hits and two RBI.  Eastern junior Kelsey Mosher (Oxford, MA) and Rentz each had two hits for Eastern.

Eastern hosts Western Connecticut Tuesday in a Little East Conference doubleheader at 3 p.m.