Box Score BOSTON – The Northeastern baseball team continued its hot hitting with a 10-2 win at Hofstra on Sunday afternoon as the Huskies won a pivotal Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) weekend series, 2-1.
Northeastern starting pitcher
Dustin Hunt improved to 5-0 on the season after surrendering just two earned runs through seven innings.
Four-consecutive Huskies (21-23, 6-9 CAA) reached base in the opening inning as Northeastern claimed a 2-0 lead in the first.
Connor Lyons (1-for-4, 2 R) led off with an infield single,
Michael Foster (2-for-5, 2 R, 2B, 2 RBI) followed with a walk, and
Jason Vosler (2-for-4, R, RBI) singled to right field to load the bases with nobody out for
Brad Burcroff (2-for-4, 2 R, 2B, 2 RBI). The NU first baseman ripped a 3-1 pitch down the left-field line to score Lyons and Vosler as Foster moved to third, but Hofstra (18-20, 6-9 CAA) starting pitcher Nick Kozlowski retired the next three batters to end the top of the first.
Northeastern added to its lead in the third inning when Foster led off with a single and moved into scoring position on a wild pitch. Vosler's single up the middle allowed Foster to score from second to give the Huskies a 3-0 advantage, but Vosler was thrown out trying to take second base on the play.
The Pride got on the board in the bottom of the third after Robbie Cafiero led off with a walk and advanced to third on T.J. Ehrsam's sac bunt. Kenny Jackson's ground out to second base allow Cafiero to score and cut NU's lead to 3-1, but the NU bats weren't done yet.
Sean Lyons (1-for-2, R, RBI) drew a lead-off walk in the fourth inning and
Connor Lyons was hit by a pitch to set up Foster's clutch two-out double that pushed the Huskies' lead to 5-1. Northeastern added another run in the fifth inning after it loaded the bases when Burcroff and
Cam Hanley (4-for-5, 2 R) hit consecutive singles and
Nick Fanneron (1-for-4) laid down a sac bunt to move both runners one base.
Sean Lyons was intentionally walked to load the bases, and
Pat Madigan's (0-for-3, RBI) sac fly to left field allowed Burcroff to tag up and score.
The Huskies went up 9-1 with three runs on a wild play in the sixth inning. Both Vosler and Burcroff drew walks, and Hanley followed with a single as a throwing error the Pride pitcher allowed all three runners to score.
Hanley reached base in the eighth inning with his career-best fourth hit and moved to third base following a wild pitch and a ground out by Fanneron, and he scored NU's 10th run on an infield single by
Sean Lyons.
"We were very strong in every aspect of the game this weekend," said Northeastern head coach Neil McPhee. "Hunt was superb today and Fitzgerald pitched well out of the bullpen. The top-four guys in our lineup really carried us offensively, and (catcher)
Josh Treff was our unsung hero - he threw out two would-be base stealers and picked off another at third base."
The Huskies continue their seven-game road swing when they travel to Virginia Tech on Wednesday, May 7, for the first-ever meeting with the Hokies. First pitch is scheduled for 3 p.m.
Notables:• Northeastern's 30 runs at Hofstra are the most in a three-game series this season.
• At least four Huskies posted multi-hit games in each game this weekend.
• Freshman
Cam Hanley's four hits on Sunday are a career-high.
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