MARSHALL, Tex. – Seniors Alyssa Vilchez (Brampton, ON) and Carley Stoker (Sandy Creek, NY) combined on a four-hitter and Eastern Connecticut State University scored three unearned runs in the fourth inning in a 3-1 win over SUNY Oneonta on the way to a split of a non-conference doubleheader Monday afternoon at Taylor Field on the campus of East Texas Baptist University.

In a 2-1 second-game win, Oneonta (1-3) scored what proved to be the winning run in the top of the fifth inning on a two-out RBI single by leadoff hitter Mariss Nage off Stoker, who had replaced sophomore starter Tori Heaphy (East Haven) in that inning. Stoker's RBI bunt single had tied the game for Eastern (2-2) in the third.

In her second career start and appearance in the second game, Heaphy (0-2) pitched into the fifth inning, allowing two runs on five hits without a walk and one strikeout. As was the case in her first start Monday, Heaphy was a victim of poor defense. In 8.0 innings this year, four of the eight runs that she has allowed have been unearned.

In the first game, Eastern scored three unearned runs off Marissa Dionisio (0-2) in the bottom of the fourth inning before Oneonta's Kayla Young got one back for the Red Dragons with a leadoff home run off Vilchez leading off the fifth.

Consecutive one-out walks to sophomore first baseman Alexa Boone (Middletown) and junior rightfielder Sarah Remillard (Grafton, MA) and a two-out infield error had given Eastern a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the fourth, a steal by sophomore centerfielder Maggie Baker (Hudson, MA) and resulting error that allowed Remillard to score from third on the play and make it 2-0, and first-year second baseman's Emma Marelli (Waterford) RBI single up the middle drove in the third run of the inning.

Young's home run in the fifth got one back for Oneonta, which threatened later in that inning and again in the sixth. After the home run, a walk and single put the tying runs on base, but graduate third baseman Julia SanGiovanni (East Haven) at third threw out Sarah Paige trying to score on a ground ball and Vilchez got Gianna Cancelleri on an inning-ending pop to Marelli to end the threat.

The Red Dragons threatened again in the sixth after Vilchez retired the first two batters on outfield fly balls. With two out, a single and two walks loaded the bases, which brought in Stoker, who got an inning-ending strikeout to preserve the two-run lead.

In appearing in relief in both ends of the doubleheader, Stoker pitched 3 2/3 innings without allowing a run and only one hit. She fanned four and walked two. On the day, Vilchez allowed only one run and four hits in 5 2/3 innings.

In the split, senior third baseman SanGiovanni had three hits and leftfielder Taylor Darby (South Windsor) and Stoker two hits each. All 11 of the team's hits on the day were singles, and the Warriors stranded 16 runners.

A power-hitting team a year ago, Eastern has managed only two extra-base hits (both doubles) in four games this year. Four Eastern pitchers have walked 17 in 28 innings, but have limited opponents to only four extra-base hits, only one of which was a home run.

Eastern plays Centenary College of Louisiana in a 5 p.m. doubleheader Wednesday at Marshall, TX.