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WEST HARTFORD, Conn. – University of Hartford sophomore lefty Alexis Sealey and Eastern Connecticut State University freshman righty Elizabeth Mitchell (Coventry) tossed complete-game two-hitters as the Hawks and Warriors split a non-conference doubleheader Tuesday afternoon at the Hartford Softball Field.
 
After Hartford's (13-11) 5-1 first-game win, Mitchell (7-6) pushed her record over .500 for the first time this year by winning her third game in the last three days and her sixth time in her last seven decisions in the Warriors' 8-0 five-inning win. It was her second five-inning shutout – first since the second day of the season in an 8-0 win over SUNY College of Old Westbury in Leesburg, FL.
 
Leading 1-0 in the second game on junior catcher Abby Thompson's (Westborough, MA) second-inning double, Eastern (10-14) sent 11 batters to the plate in the third inning, scoring seven runs on six hits, a wild pitch and a walk. Five of the runs came home on doubles by sophomore leftfielder Julia Boya (Coventry), first-year third baseman Sam Healy (Cranston, RI) and senior second baseman Maddi Sauve (Mansfield) – Sauve's double clearing the bases with two out.
 
Last week's Little East Conference Rookie-of-the-Week, Mitchell fanned two and walked one and lowered her ERA to 3.02. She allowed a two-out single in the first and a one-out single in the second. She retired 12 of the final 15 batters, with two reaching on errors and one on a walk in that final stretch.
 
Game 1
U. of Hartford 5, Eastern Conn. 1
 
Sealy (3-1) walked five and hit a batter but faced 19 consecutive batters from the second inning through the first three batters of the seventh without giving up a hit in leading the Hawks to their sixth win in the last nine games.
 
After walking the first two batters of the game and giving up senior pitcher Alexa Boone's (Middletown) sacrifice fly – her sixth RBI in the last four games -- Sealy allowed only two hits the rest of the way -- sophomore shortstop Kaley Laird's (Bristol) two-out single in the second and Sauve's two-out single in the seventh.
 
After the first inning, Sealy retired at least the first two batters in six of the last seven innings. The Warriors never managed more than one baserunner in an inning over the last six innings.
 
In addition to dominating on the mound, Sealey – her team's top hitter (.406) – batted leadoff and had three hits, scored a run and drove in a run. Sealey led off the first inning with a single and scored the tying run, made it 3-1 with an RBI single in the second, and singled in the fourth. Senior centerfielder and cleanup hitter Olivia Wolk drove in three runs with a first-inning sacrifice fly that plated Sealey with the tying run and drove in both runs in the sixth inning with a two-out  single.
 
In relief of starter Boone (2-7), first-year player Michaella Bowen (Hudson, NH) made her first pitching  appearance in three weeks. Bowen allowed four hits and two runs while striking out one and walking two.
 
Hartford scored twice in the first inning on three hits to take the lead for good, 2-1, added another in the second and closed it out with two in the sixth, collecting two hits in each of those innings.
 
A winner of half of its eight Little East Conference games this year, Eastern hosts the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Saturday in a 1 p.m. doubleheader at Clyde Washburne Field. The Corsairs (13-11, 1-5 LEC) host Western Connecticut State University Wednesday in a 3 p.m. LEC doubleheader.