GORHAM, Maine – The University of Southern Maine softball team scored twice with none out in the bottom of the seventh inning for a 4-3 win, then completed the Little East Conference doubleheader sweep by breaking a fourth-inning tie by scoring the final eight runs of the game in an 11-3 victory stopped in the fifth inning due to the eight-run rule.

Southern Maine (15-14, 7-5 LEC) swept Eastern (11-23, 6-6 LEC for the second straight season in snapping a 16-game losing streak at the hands of the Warriors.

On the final day of the LEC regular season Sunday, Eastern visits conference leader and defending LEC tournament champion Western Connecticut (18-17, 8-4 LEC) for a pair at 2 p.m. while Southern Maine, second in the conference, hosts UMass Dartmouth (19-17, 5-7 LEC) in a noon doubleheader. Eastern currently clings to the sixth and final LEC tournament playoff spot, one game ahead of UMass Dartmouth.

The LEC double-elimination tournament gets underway Tuesday with first-round games at the sites of the higher seeded teams before moving to the LEC's No.1 seed this weekend.

Having not won as many as two straight games since April 11, Southern Maine responded to Eastern's three-run rally in the top of the seventh by ending the game in the bottom of the inning when all four batters reached base. Two singles got the inning going, and RBI hits from Mary Caron (double) and Courtney Davis  made a loser of Eastern senior righty Samantha Valentine (Ridge, NY), who had relieved freshman lefty Jacky Arndt (Chelmsford, MA) after the Warriors had taken a 3-2 lead in the top of the seventh. Arndt allowed only four hits and two runs over six innings.

Eastern had tied the second game, 3-3 with two runs in the top of the fourth on senior Gina Georgetti's (Milford) leadoff double, an error, an RBI single by No. 9 hitter Rebecca DeFeo (Richmond, RI) and two-out single by senior Samantha Bardos (Norwalk).

The hosts went ahead with three runs in the bottom of the fourth – two coming home on Caron's two-run, two-out triple – and the game ended after the Huskies scored five times in the fifth on  just two hits, with Davis' three-run single highlighting the inning.

On the day, Georgetti  (two doubles) and freshman Teresa Marchitto (Orange) each had three hits, with freshman Sara Pisanelli (Wallingford) driving in two runs during Eastern's three-run seventh inning in the first game.