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AUBURNDALE, Fla.  – Sophomore Ian Moser (Bellingham, MA) tied the Eastern Connecticut State University baseball record by hitting three home runs and was one of three players with four hits  as the Warriors routed long-time inter-region rival William Paterson University, 20-7, Monday evening at Lake Myrtle Sports Complex. The game was stopped after seven innings in accordance with the ten-run rule.
 
Now 3-0 in Florida, Eastern (7-3) completed a two-game sweep on the day by snapping William Paterson's (9-4) five-game winning streak. Earlier, the Warriors rallied twice in the late innings en route to a 6-5 walk-off win over Springfield College.
 
In compiling a season-high 22 hits (nine of them for extra bases), Eastern collected runs in all but the first inning, scoring five runs in both the third and fifth innings. Trailing 15-0, the Pioneers scored five unearned runs in the fifth inning, four coming on one swing of the bat by senior Connor Luckie.
 
Moser, batting eighth in the order, senior cleanup hitter Alejandro Soriano (Hartford) and senior leadoff hitter Ray Leonzi (Trumbull) all had four hits and combined for 12 RBI and nine runs scored. Moser drove in five runs and scored four, Soriano plated four runs and scored two and Leonzi  drove in and scored three runs. Batting behind Leonzi in the order, senior Hank Penders (Wethersfield) had three doubles (one shy of the game record).
 
Moser hit a two-run home run to give the Warriors a 2-0 lead in the second inning, followed with another two-run blast in the five-run third that upped the lead to 7-0, and swatted a solo home run in the sixth that pushed the lead to 16-5. The tenth player in program history to record three home runs in a game (most recently by Alumni Hall of Famer and first-team All-America Dwight Wildman against Wesleyan University in 2003), Moser singled with one out in a four-run seventh in an effort to become the first player with four in a game.
 
In winning his second game in two decisions this year, senior lefty Dan Driscoll (Waterford), fourth all-time at Eastern in strikeouts per game (11+), fanned 11 and walked four while pitching a three-hitter without allowing an earned run before giving way with two out in the fifth inning to senior lefty Nicholas Furino (East Haven), who fanned two in 1 1/3 scoreless innings in his season debut.
 
In his first collegiate game and at-bat, first-year DH Eric Mathewson (Eastford) came off the bench to rap a pinch single in the team's five-run fifth inning. He also reached on an error in the seventh.

By collecting 22 hits, Eastern raised its season team average through ten games to .334, with Soriano, senior Emmanuel Zaiter (Miami, FL) and Moser all hitting better than .400 (Soriano, 463, Zaiter .452 and Moser .405), with Penders at .349 and Leonzi at .341. Moser and senior Preston [Irby] Cosme-Cruz (Bridgeport) share the team lead with 14 RBI and Zaiter and Penders topping all players with eight extra-base hits and Moser the team leader with 14 runs scored. Senior righty Alex Mach (Rockfall) has a staff-leading 2.35 ERA in 15 1/3 innings to go along with a 2-0 record.
 
On Wednesday, Eastern wraps up its Florida spring trip against Carleton College (3:30 p.m.) and the University of Chicago (7 p.m.) at Chain of Lakes Park in Winter Haven.