Box Score
PROVIDENCE, R.I. –  Junior first baseman Ian Moser (Bellingham, MA) drove in six runs with four hits – including two home runs and the 100^th hit of his Eastern Connecticut State University baseball career – to pace a 25-hit attack that launched the Warriors to a 28-8 non-conference victory over Johnson & Wales University Sunday afternoon at Scotts Miracle-Gro Field.

A total of 23 players saw action for Eastern (18-6-1), with 15 of them scoring at least one run, 14 contributing at least one hit and 11 of them driving in at least one run.

The final run total is six shy of the program game record set in 1991 against Colby College and the hit total is four behind the mark established against Western Connecticut State University in 1982 and equalled against UMass Boston in 2009, but the 58 official at-bats breaks the program's game record by one, set in 1998 against Western Connecticut and equalled in 2001 against Rhode Island College.

Six different players had two or more hits, led by Moser, who blasted his sixth and seventh home runs of the year – the 18^th and 19th of his three-year career. Needing two hits for 100 in his career, Moser had an RBI single in a four-run first inning and slammed a two-run home run in a five-run seventh inning. He wrapped up his day in the team's ten-run eighth inning with an RBI single and a two-run home run.

Eight of Eastern's hits went for extra bases – five of them home runs. In addition to Moser's two, senior DH Lucas Malave (Toms River, NJ) blasted his fourth of the year. Contributing their first career homers were sophomore catcher Sean Fallon (Bethel) and first-year outfielder Kieran Scruggs (Fairfield).

An in-game replacement for senior catcher Hank Penders (Wethersfield), Fallon was 4-for-4 with two extra-base hits, three RBI and three runs scored. Batting 2-3 in the lineup, Fallon and Malave were a combined 7-for-8 with two home runs, a double, six runs scored and five RBI.
Scruggs drove in four runs – three coming on his home run that came three batters after Moser's  first homer of the day in the five-run seventh inning.

Registering their first collegiate hits were sophomore David Braun (Newtown) and first-year players Nicolas Martini (New Fairfield) and Sean Hickey (Manchester). Braun and Hickey had pinch singles in the eight -- Braun's driving in his first career run. Martini drove in his first career run on an infield error in the eighth and singled in another run with his first hit in the ninth.

Fourteen of Eastern's runs were unearned, thanks to eight Wildcat errors.

Trailing 17-0, the Wildcats (8-18) pushed across seven runs in the seventh against three Eastern pitchers on four hits, three walks and two hit batters. First-year junior righty E.J. Nevills (Westwood, MA) – the first of seven Eastern pitchers – was credited with his second win in three decisions. He pitched the first four scoreless innings, allowing two hits and four walks while fanning four. No subsequent pitcher retired more than four batters.

 Eastern is in the midst of a stretch of nine games in ten days, seven of them at Holowaty Family Filed. The Warriors (6-2 LEC) return to conference action Tuesday at Western Connecticut at 3:30 p.m. before hosting Amherst College in a non-conference game in the first of five consecutive home games in a six-day stretch.