MANSFIELD, Conn. --  Seven Trinity College players collected at least two hits and Victoria Baez highlighted a seven-run fourth inning in the second game with a grand slam to power the Bantams to a 7-2, 9-0 softball sweep of Eastern Connecticut State University Wednesday at the Eastern Softball Stadium. The second game was stopped after five innings.

Trailing 2-1 in the first game, Trinity (8-5) scored three runs in the fifth on an RBI single by Courtney Erickson and two-run home run by freshman Natalie Bruno to make a complete-game winner of Rachael Smith (2-2). Smith scattered four hits while fanning ten and walking three. She shut out Eastern on one hit over the final five innings.

Freshman lefty Lindsay  Golia (5-2) went the five-inning distance in the nightcap and was backed by Erickson's one-out home run in the third that made it 2-0 and the seven-run fourth. The Bantams had only two hits in the inning, when they sent ten batters to the plate. There were also four walks, a passed ball and infield error. A passed ball and bases loaded walk accounted for the first two runs and an infield error pushed across the third before Baez unloaded a grand slam.

In the second game, Erickson drove in three runs with an RBI single in the first , homer in the third and bases loaded walk in the fourth.

Nicole Towner and Erickson had three hits on the day, with Meaghan Race, Michelle Treglia, Bruno, Nikki Anderson and Baez each collected two hits in Trinity's 18-hit attack on the day. Seven of Trinity's hits went for extra bases.

Playing its first home games of the season, Eastern (2-10) has dropped its last five. Senior outfielder Kelsey Mosher (Oxford, MA) had three of Eastern's nine hits, with senior first baseman Gina Georgetti (Milford) adding two. Each drove in one of the team's two runs.

Eastern starters Samantha Valentine (Ridge, NY) and Jacky Arndt (Chelmsford, MA) combined to pitch 7 1/3 innings, allowing ten hits and eight runs with ten strikeouts and eight walks.

Eastern visits Tufts University Thursday at 3 p.m. in a non-conference doubleheader.