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MANSFIELD, Conn. --  First-year righty pitcher Elizabeth Mitchell (Coventry) stopped Keene State College on one run in pitching all 15 innings on the day, and senior catcher Maddy Bowen (Hudson, NH) broke a tie with an eighth-inning double in a 3-2 second-game win as the Eastern Connecticut State University softball team swept Keene State College in a Little East Conference doubleheader Sunday afternoon at Clyde Washburne Field.

Mitchell (6-6) pitched a complete-game nine-hitter and stranded ten Keene State (12-8, 1-3 LEC) runners in a 3-1 first-game win and got all 24 outs after coming into the game with two runners aboard and none out in the first inning of the nightcap.

Having lost three of its previous four heading into the doubleheader, Eastern (9-13, 4-2 LEC) evened its home record at 4-4 with its 19^th and 20^th consecutive wins over the Owls.
Eastern was limited to six hits by two Keene State pitchers in the first game but broke a 1-1 tie with two runs in the seventh on hits from Bowen, senior first baseman Maggie Rubeck (Easthampton, MA) and sophomore rightfielder Reagan Lalor (Danbury), along with an outfield throwing error that allowed Bowen to score from second and moved Rubeck to third, where she scored an insurance run on Lalor's third hit (second double) of the game.

In the first game, Keene threatened early against Mitchell, who got an outfield fly ball to strand three runners in the first and a strikeout looking to leave two more aboard in the second.  Keene tied the game, 1-1, in the fifth when it bunched three of its nine hits, but Mitchell got two strikeout looking to leave two runners on base.

Mitchell was dominant in long relief in the nightcap. After the Owls took a 2-1 lead by pushing home both of Mitchell's inherited runners, Mitchell shut the door, shutting the visitors out the rest of the way. She tossed five straight hitless innings after the first before Keene threatened with a pair of one-out singles in the seventh inning of a 2-2 game.

Mitchell escaped the seventh by getting an infield out and swinging strikeout to leave two on base to set the stage for the Warriors' winning rally in the eighth.
 
With Eastern trailing 2-1 in the  second game, senior DP Alexa Boone (Middletown) got the equalizer for Eastern by slamming the first pitch from starter Carissa Miller over the left field fence – her fourth home run of the year.

In 15 innings on the day, Mitchell fanned ten, walked only one and hit a batter. Lalor and Bowen each had three hits and Boone and Sauve two each.

On Tuesday, Eastern visits WPI in a 4:15 p.m. non-conference makeup doubleheader.