WEST HARTFORD, Conn. – Sophomore centerfielder Olivia Wolk had four hits and scored four runs in the University of Hartford's 21-hit attack in a 7-2, 9-1 softball sweep of Eastern Connecticut State University Sunday afternoon in a non-conference doubleheader. The second game was called after five innings due to the mercy rule.
 
Hartford (10-11), playing a combination of Division I and Division III teams as they transition to Division III, has won five straight while Eastern (8-8) has dropped its last three.
 
The Warriors were 8-0 all-time against the Hawks entering the day, with the clubs last meeting in 1986 when Eastern easily won, 8-0 and 11-3, at Hartford en route to a second straight national championship.
 
Wolk had two doubles and her first home run of the season and  also walked once and scored four runs in the doubleheader while graduate student Kelsey Galevich and sophomore Sarah Serrano each had three hits. Senior Calee English (3-6) pitched a one-hitter over the first five innings of the first game, fanning seven and walking four, and freshman Carly Mayhood went the five-inning distance in the nightcap, allowing five hits and no earned runs.
 
In the first game, Wolk, batting leadoff, reached four times with three hits – including a double and home run -- and a walk, scored four times and drove in a run.
 
Trailing 4-0 in the first game, Eastern scored twice in the top of the sixth on a hit-by-pitch and single and two infield ground balls to cut the gap to two runs before the Hawks answered with three of their own in the bottom of the inning. In the second game, the teams were tied heading into the fourth inning, when Hartford scored three times in the fourth on four hits and tacked on five more in the fifth, also on four hits.
 
Making her first career start (second appearance), sophomore righty Emma Sands (Danbury) was lifted after walking all four batters she faced in the first game, with senior righty Alyssa Vilchez (Brampton, ON) coming on to prevent further damage by getting a ground ball and two strikeouts to end the inning. Vilchez gave up six runs on nine hits the rest of the way.
 
Making her 13^th appearance of the season but first start, senior righty Carley Stoker (Sandy Creek, NY) was tagged with her first loss of the year in five decisions in the second game. Stoker fanned four without a walk and allowed three earned runs on eight hits over the first four innings.
 
Senior Julia SanGiovanni (East Haven) and sophomore Maggie Rubeck (Easthampton, MA) each had two of Eastern's eight hits on the day.
 
Two-time defending Little East Conference regular-season champion Eastern opens its conference season Friday at noon at Eastern Connecticut State University.