PLYMOUTH, N.H. --  Freshman lefty Morgan Sanson (Thomaston) tossed  13 2/3 scoreless innings and freshman third baseman Crysta Wolski (West Hartford) drove in the winning runs in both games as the second-seeded Eastern Connecticut State University softball team staved off elimination in the Little East Conference double-elimination tournament Thursday with a pair of extra-inning wins as the visiting team at D&M Park on the campus of Plymouth State University.

Sanson pitched the team's first shutout of the season and Wolski drove in sophomore pinch runner Calli Duthrie (Griswold) with the only run of the game with a two-out single in the top of the eighth in a 1-0 win over No. 6 Keene State College in Thursday's first game.

Against No. 5 UMass Dartmouth, which had sent Eastern (15-24) to the losers' bracket with a 4-0 first-round win over the Warriors Tuesday, Sanson pitched 5 2/3 shutout innings in relief and Wolski's one-out pinch infield single in the top of the tenth drove in the go-ahead run in a 5-4 victory over UMass Dartmouth. Entering the day, Wolski had managed only two hits and one RBI in limited action this season.

Eastern returns to action Friday at 9 a.m. to play a third elimination game against either fourth-seeded UMass Boston, which dropped a winners' bracket decision to top-seeded and host Plymouth State University late Thursday night, 5-2. The winner of the Eastern-UMass Boston game must defeat Plymouth State twice later Friday to claim the crown.

Sanson (5-6) has now pitched 21.0 consecutive scoreless innings over her last four outings.

Against UMass Dartmouth, senior DP Kristyn Ryan (Barkhamsted) drove in two runs with a single in a three-run third inning that gave the Warriors the early lead, and an RBI double in the fourth that tied the game 4-4. Junior leftfielder Jessica Seymour (Barkhamsted) reached four times with three hits and a walk and drove in a run with a sacrifice fly and senior first baseman Samantha Valentine (Ridge, NY) had two hits and plated a run in the third, and freshman shortstop Sara Pisanelli (Wallingford) reached three times with two singles and a walk and scored twice. The team's leadoff hitter, Pisanelli scored the tying run in the top of the fourth on Ryan's RBI double after opening the inning with a single.

After being shut out by Hannah Smith of UMD in Tuesday's loss, the Warriors roughed up the junior with 12 hits and also reached four times on walks.

Ryan, senior infielder Gina Georgetti (Milford) and senior centerfielder Samantha Bardos (Norwalk) all had two hits against Keene State.