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BOSTON – The Northeastern baseball team finished with its best offensive output of the season in its 17-1 win at James Madison on Sunday afternoon as the Huskies gain a half-game lead over the Dukes for fifth place in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) standings. The top six of the conference's eight teams qualify for the postseason.
 
The Huskies (23-25, 8-10 CAA) won their second consecutive CAA series by taking two of three games at JMU this weekend. NU won two out of three at Hofstra last week.
 
Northeastern's 17 runs are the most since May 9, 2007, when it beat Massachusetts, 17-2. The Huskies scored 17 runs twice that year, both in wins over UMass.
 
Starting pitcher Dustin Hunt improved to 6-0 on the season after allowing four hits and two walks through six innings to go with six strikeouts.

"We really came to play today," said Northeastern assistant coach Mike Glavine. "We are playing for a postseason bid right now and we rose to the occasion this weekend. Today was another total team effort, and team efforts lead to getting into the conference tournament and making a run."
 
The Huskies wasted little time in getting on the board as Michael Foster (3-for-5, 3 R, RBI, SB) hit a one-out single to centerfield and moved into scoring position with his 14th steal of the season in the first inning. Jason Vosler (2-for-6, R, 4 RBI, 2B) hit a groundball that the JMU second baseman mishandled as Foster came around to score on the error. Brad Burcroff (2-for-5, R, RBI, 2 2B) followed with a double to left-center field to put two runners in scoring position, and Cam Hanley (0-for-2, 2 RBI) lifted a fly ball to left field that allowed Vosler to tag up and score as Burcroff took third base on the throw home. Gabe Levanti (1-for-4, 2 R) stepped in the box and hit a sharp grounder to third, but the third baseman threw the ball into the dirt near first base as Levanti reached on the error and Burcroff scored to give NU a 3-0 lead.
 
Josh Treff (1-for-4, 3 R) led off the second inning with a five-pitch walk and Mike Piscopo (0-for-3, 2 R) followed by getting hit by a pitch. Connor Lyons (1-for-5, 2 R, 2 RBI, 2B) clubbed an RBI double to right-center field that scored Treff and put two runners in scoring position with nobody out. Foster earned a walk to load the bases, and a failed pickoff attempt at third base went up the left-field line and allowed Piscopo and Lyons to score as Foster moved to third. Burcroff followed with this second double in as many at-bats to push the Huskies' lead to 7-0.  
 
The Huskies loaded the bases with one out in the third inning after Sean Lyons was hit by a pitch, Treff singled to right field, and Connor Lyons reached base after JMU's left fielder dropped a fly ball. Vosler belted the first pitch he saw off of the top of the right-field wall as his three-run double came within an inch or two of being a grand slam.
 
Northeastern added a run in fourth inning after Levanti singled and scored on Sean Lyons' triple, pushing its lead to 12-0. The Huskies posted five runs in the eighth inning thanks to RBIs from Sean Lyons, Piscopo, Connor Lyons, Foster, and Vosler.
 
Ty McFarland's solo home run in the eighth inning stood as the Dukes' (16-31, 7-10 CAA) only run.
 
The Huskies return to Friedman Diamond on Tuesday, May 13, to host in-state rival UMass Lowell at 3 p.m.
 
 
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