PURCHASE, N.Y. – The top five hitters in the Eastern Connecticut State University lineup combined for 11 hits, four RBI and four runs scored as the Warriors scored the first six runs of the game on the way to a 6-4 non-conference baseball victory over Manhattanville College Thursday afternoon at Manhattanville Field.

Batting leadoff, sophomore leftfielder Alexander White (West Hartford) hit his team-leading fourth home run of the year for Eastern (15-12), which improved to 13-8 away from home this year.  Senior All-America centerfielder Alex Zachary (Enfield) and freshman DH John Mesagno (Tappan, NY) – batting 3-5 in the order -- each had three hits, with White, and No. 2 hitter Pat Sirois (Cromwell) adding two each in Eastern's 14-hit attack.

As the first of six pitchers, sophomore righty John Parker (Brunswick, ME) won his second game in two decisions, striking out the side in his only inning after the Warriors pushed across the first run in the top of the first when White opened the game with a single and scored on sophomore third baseman Alex Parkos' (Meriden) one-out double to left-center.

The Warriors broke the game open with a four-run, five-hit sixth inning highlighted by White's two-run home run.

Eastern's pitching staff gave up only six hits, fanning ten and walking three. Following Parker's early departure (in preparation of this weekend's Little East Conference games), sophomore righties Brian Hnatuk (Trumbull) and Cole Ogorzalek (Portland) shut down the Valiants on one hit over the next four innings  to preserve Eastern's slim 2-0 lead. Hnatuk fanned one and gave up one hit in two innings and Ogorzalek retired six straight over two innings, fanning two. After the hosts narrowed the Eastern lead to 6-3, senior righty Luis Vega (Willimantic) carried the Warriors to the ninth by fanning three and giving up only one hit and one run. Senior righty Sam Kosterich (Stamford) pitched a hitless final inning for his second save.

Robbie Lynch was the only player with as many as two hits for Manhattanville (14-18). Starter Richie Vetrano (0-3) allowed ten hits and five earned runs over the first five innings.

Eastern hosts the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Saturday in a Little East Conference noon doubleheader. With five conference regular-season games remaining, Eastern is in fourth place with a 4-5 record, with the Corsairs tied for second at 7-3. Last year, UMD swept Eastern with a pair of extra-inning one-run decisions at Dartmouth, MA in the regular season before Eastern outslugged the Corsairs, 9-7, en route to the LEC tournament title.