MANSFIELD, Conn. --  Senior Ryan Bagdasarian (Glastonbury) drove in five runs in the opener with two home runs and a double, and junior lefty Aidan Dunn (Westfield, MA) struck out six batters and allowed only one hit through three innings of his first career start in the nightcap as the Eastern Connecticut State University baseball team swept Western Connecticut State University, 12-2 in seven innings and 11-5 in Little East Conference action Wednesday afternoon at the Eastern Baseball Stadium.
 
Eastern (8-1, 4-0 LEC) collected 23 hits – including five home runs, five doubles and a triple – and was issued 14 walks and 12 wild pitches off seven Western (0-2, 0-2 LEC) pitchers in extending its win streak against the Colonials to ten.
 
Bagdasarian and junior Owen Marica (Haddam) each had four hits, three runs scored and reached safely five times each on the afternoon. Bagdasarian was 4-for-8 with five RBI and his three extra-base hits, Marica 4-for-7 with an RBI. Ten pitchers limited Western to 11 hits (nine of them singles) while fanning 27 and walking ten. 
 
Junior righty Andrew Jose (Windham) in relief and sophomore righty transfer Tim Pfaffenbichler (Windsor Locks) as a starter both were credited with their first collegiate wins. In his second start, Pfaffenbichler pitched a career-high 5 1/3 innings of the first game, fanning ten and spacing three hits and leaving with a 7-2 lead. The second of eight Game 2 pitchers (which ties the 15-year-old record of pitchers used in a game), Jose took over for Dunn with one on and one out in the fourth and Eastern leading 2-0 in the second game. He hurled a hitless fifth and also departed with Eastern leading, 2-0.
 
The Warriors could not break the game open until scoring nine runs over their final four at-bats as Western sophomore righty Justin Grullon allowed only four runs on eight hits through his six innings. Trailing only 2-0 heading into the top of the sixth, Grullon surrendering junior Dean Slavin's (Tappan, NY) first home run of the year and his wild pitch made it 4-0. In the seventh, Slavin and junior Matt Malcom (East Lyme) had RBIs, and and a wild pitch pushed the lead to 7-0. Junior Benjamin Ryan (Springfield, MA) drove in his first career run with a ninth-inning sacrifice fly.
 
For Eastern, ten differently players collected hits, ten scored runs and ten drove in a run.
 
In addition to Marica and Bagdasarian, senior Luke Broadhurst (Stafford) had three hits, scored three runs and drove in two, and senior captain John Mesagno (Tappan, NY) reached five times with a triple and single and three walks, scored four times and drove in two runs. Henderson also saw his first career action on the mound, starting the seventh inning of the nightcap.
 
In addition to Bagdasarian's two home runs and Slavin's homer,  seniors Kevin Murphy (Springfield, MA) and Holden White (Wallingford) each hit their first home runs of the year in the first game. Murphy's blast was a two-run shot when Eastern scored three unearned runs in the fifth and White followed a three-run home run by Bagdasarian with a solo shot in a five-run sixth inning.
 
Junior Logan Terry  and sophomore Max Gregory each had three hits on the day, Terry driving in three runs and Gregory scoring twice. Senior leadoff hitter Moe Echevarria had two hits and two RBI.
 
 
Eastern visits Massachusetts Dartmouth Friday for a Little East noon doubleheader.