Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 CASTLETON, Vt. – Seniors Holden White (Wallingford) and Luke Broadhurst (Stafford) combined for 11 hits, 20 total bases, six RBI and eight runs scored to help carry the Eastern Connecticut State University baseball team to a 12-1, 12-4 sweep of Castleton University in a non-conference doubleheader Sunday afternoon at Spartan Field. The first game was stopped due to the ten-run rule after seven innings.
 
Ranked first in New England and No. 21 nationally, Eastern (26-4) collected 31 hits off seven Castleton (9-17) pitchers in completing a perfect 5-0 week. The Warriors had swept Castleton in a Little East Conference doubleheader Saturday at the Eastern Baseball Stadium.

With the possibility of five games remaining in the regular season prior to the Little East Conference tournament, Eastern moves to within four wins of posting its 31st season of at least 30 wins. It would be the first 30-win season since 2014. It would be the second 30-win season for current third-year head coach Brian Hamm, who led Amherst College to a 30-11 record in the fifth of his nine years at the Division III institution.
 
Fourteen of Eastern's hits went for extra bases, five of them home runs. Senior captain John Mesagno (Tappan, NY) homered twice, White and Broadhurst once each and freshman Chris Malcom (East Lyme) belted his first career home run from the No. 9 spot in the order in a seven-run sixth inning in the first game.
 
White doubled and homered among his six hits, scored five times and drove in three, while Broadhurst doubled twice and homered among his five hits, scored three runs and also drove in three. Mesagno had four hits and added a double to his two home runs, scored three runs and drove in three. Junior Dean Slavin (Tappan, NY) drove in four runs in the second game, two coming on a fifth-inning single and another on a seventh-inning sacrifice fly.
 
Junior lefty Aidan Dunn (Westfield, MA) improved to 4-0 by pitching six scoreless innings in the first game, giving up three hits while fanning six without a walk. He lowered his earned run average to 0.29, having fanned 31 and walked nine in 30 2/3 innings.  As the third of five pitchers in the second game, senior righty Bryan Albee (Killingly) won his third game against a loss with three scoreless innings. He gave up one hit and one walk and fanned three.

Eastern hosts Keene State College Friday at 4 p.m. in a conference game.