MANSFIELD, Conn. – Senior righty Sam Kosterich (Stamford) struck out a career-high 11 batters en route to his first career shutout as the Eastern Connecticut State University baseball team completed a Little East Conference sweep of Keene State College with a 5-0 second-game victory Saturday afternoon at the Eastern Baseball Stadium.

In the first game, junior righty Jordan Muchin (West Hartford) pitched a five-hitter through seven innings and evened his record at 2-2 when Eastern (11-8, 2-2 LEC) scored twice in the seventh on back-to-back run-scoring hits by junior third baseman Alex Parkos (Meriden) and senior first baseman D.J. Scavone (Auburn, MA) to snap a 3-3 tie.

Making his 53^rd appearance but only his fifth career start, Kosterich (2-1) faced only three batters over the minimum, giving up a two-out single in the third, and a one-out single in the fifth, and hitting a batter with one out in the eighth. An infield error also put a batter aboard with two out in the seventh. He fanned four batters twice and one batter three times.

In two games, Parkos had five hits, drove in two runs and scored two, while Scavone reached five times with four hits – two doubles and his team-leading fifth home run of the year in the eighth inning of the nightcap. Scavone also had two RBI and two runs scored. Freshman rightfielder Anthony Stigler (Mansfield) also drove in two runs with three hits. He scored one run. Stigler's two-out, two-run single highlighted a three-run third inning that erased Keene's early 1-0 lead in the first game.

Batting .310 as a team, Keene (10-7, 2-2 LEC) managed only  nine hits off four Eastern pitchers.

Sophomore first baseman and cleanup hitter Connor Walsh (Goffstown, NH) hit his first home run of the season – a two-run blast in the sixth inning that tied the first game, 3-3. Junior DH John Tarascio (Wethersfield) and junior leftfielder Devin Springfield (Jaffrey, NH) were the Owls' only players with multiple hits, each picking up two.

Eastern hosts Dean College Wednesday at 4 p.m.