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BEVERLY, Mass. – Two Endicott College pitchers shut out Eastern Connecticut State University on four hits after the first inning and five Eastern pitchers allowed double-digit hits for the fifth time in six games in the Warriors' 11-2 loss to the No. 3 nationally-ranked Gulls Monday afternoon at North Field.

Eastern (23-11) has lost three straight and four of five while Endicott (31-3) won its 23^rd straight game – 22-0 up north -- and   remains unbeaten at home this year.

Senior righties John Connolly and Chris Jenkins combined on a six-hitter and shut out the Warriors on four hits after senior leftfielder Alejandro Soriano (Hartford) smacked a two-run double to provide the Warriors with a short-lived 2-0 lead in the first inning. Soriano reached three times with two hits and a walk to improve his team-lead average to .407 and his on-base percentage to .459. Soriano, who has at least one hit in his last ten games,  has reached safely in his last 36 games – 14 shy of the record – dating back to the final two games of 2024.

Trailing 2-1, Endicott scored three runs in the third – two coming in on a double by graduate DH Kevin Grabowski – and added two more in the fourth on another RBI double by Grabowski and second baseman AJ Hamm's run-scoring single to move out to a 6-2 lead. Grabowski had three hits in the game, drove in t here runs and scored three.

Endicott's 16 hits are the most allowed by Eastern pitching since the fourth game of the season. The Gulls won last year's NCAA Division III Mansfield, Conn. Regional title at the Eastern Baseball Stadium in a three-game sweep, captured the NCAA Super Regional at Johns Hopkins University in two straight, won one game in the national tournament and finished 47-4.

The game was Eastern's fifth in seven days.

Beginning Thursday at 4 p.m. against Little East Conference opponent Western Connecticut, Eastern closes out the regular season with four games at the Eastern Baseball Stadium prior to the Little East Conference Tournament May 7-10 at the site of the No. 1 seed.

With three LEC regular-season games remaining, Eastern (9-4) is in third place behind Keene State College (10-3) and the University of Massachusetts Boston (11-4). The Warriors would gain the No. 1 tournament seed if it finishes in a tie atop the standings with Keene State and UMass Boston would earn the No. 1 tournament seed if it finishes tied with Eastern for first. Eastern swept Keene in the regular season and was swept by UMass Boston Sunday at Monan Park. UMass visits Plymouth State University (3-10) in its final regular-season conference game Tuesday. Keene holds the tie-breaker over UMass for having swept the Beacons at home on April 11.