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MANSFIELD, Conn. – Six Eastern Connecticut State University errors and three passed balls accounted for 14 unearned runs as the Warriors were swept by Springfield College in their softball home-openers Tuesday, 16-7 and 8-2.

In the first game, Springfield (9-5) sent 14 batters to the plate and scored ten runs on eight hits, two walks, an error and two wild pitches in the second inning, and the Pride erased a one-run deficit in the fifth inning of the nightcap by batting around and scoring four runs on four hits, a walk, hit batsman and a wild pitch en route to completing the sweep.

For Springfield, Kate Katsetos, Amelia DeRosa and Katie Manzone combined for 13 hits (five for extra bases), 18 total bases, eight RBI and 11 runs scored, and cleanup hitter Callie Gendron drove in four runs in the first game with a pair of two-run home runs. In addition to winning the first game on the mound, DeRosa had five hits (three doubles), scored five runs and drove in four in the doubleheader.

DeRosa (4-3) and Lily McCauliffe allowed only three earned runs in combining on an eight-hitter in the first game, when the Pride scored 12 unearned runs with the help of three Eastern errors, and first-year righty Julia Rimshnick (4-1) hurled a complete-game six-hitter with seven strikeouts in the second game.

In the second game, Eastern (3-9) took a 2-1 lead with two runs in the fourth inning when it bunched four of its game total of six hits (two of them of the infield variety) and got a sacrifice fly from senior second baseman Maddi Sauve (Mansfield) and a two-out single by No. 8 hitter Abby Thompson (Westborough, MA).

With Eastern holding that lead behind senior lefty pitcher Alexa Boone (Middletown), the Pride pushed across four runs in the fifth, the first two coming on DeRosa's two-run double, the third on a wild pitch and the final run on Gendron's RBI single.

On the day, first-year third baseman Sam Healy (Cranston, RI) had three hits, including a two-out solo home run on the first pitch she saw from DeRosa in the sixth inning of the first game as the No. 9 batter, and a two-out double in the fifth inning of the second game as the No. 3 hitter in the order.

Junior DP Maddy Bowen (Hudson, NH) had two hits and two RBI and Thompson drove in two runs with a ground ball in the seventh inning of the first game and her RBI single in the fourth inning of the second game.  Sophomore shortstop Kaley Laird (Bristol) reached three times with a hit and two walks and also had two sacrifice bunts and a stolen base and drove in a run.  Batting leadoff, sophomore centerfielder Julia Boya (Coventry) walked twice and scored Eastern's first two runs in the first game after walking to lead off the first inning and reaching on a leadoff error, stealing third and riding home on Laird's RBI single in the third inning of the opener.

Maddy Bowen extended her streak of reaching safely to seven games with an RBI single that gave Eastern a 1-0 lead in the first inning of the opener and singled and her pinch runner scored the team's first run in the fourth inning of the second game.

Despite committing six errors, Eastern turned three more double plays on the day, giving  the Warriors 11 in 12 games this year.