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BROOKLINE, Mass. – Center fielder Michael Foster cranked out three hits for the Northeastern baseball team during Sunday's series finale against James Madison as the Huskies completed a three-game sweep of the Dukes with a 7-5 victory at Friedman Diamond.
 
Foster went three-for-five from the plate to lead Northeastern (14-20, 7-5 CAA), scoring three times while picking up his 18th RBI of the season on a fifth-inning double. The redshirt-junior from Pickering, Ontario, celebrated his 12th multi-hit game of the year and raised his season batting average 10 percentage points to .362.
 
Six of the Huskies' eight hits during the game came from their first three batters in the lineup: Foster, Keith Kelly, and Pat Madigan. Kelly reached base four times with two hits, a walk, and a hit-by-pitch, while Madigan went one-for-three with a hit-by-pitch and an RBI.
 
With the victory, Northeastern remains undefeated at home during conference play (6-0) and moves into a tie for third place in the league with Elon and potentially William & Mary by the end of the weekend. It is the first time the Huskies have won their first six home conference games in a season since 1994 (America East), when current head coach Mike Glavine was a player on the NU roster.
 
Catcher Josh Treff was walked four times on Sunday, collecting two RBIs on two bases-loaded walks that brought runs across the plate. Cam Hanley walked three times but was hitless during his two credited at-bats.
 
Freshman Nolan Lang singled up the middle in the eighth inning for his only hit of the game, while shortstop Maxwell Burt went one-for-three with a run scored. Outside of two defensive errors by Lang, the Huskies' infield was strong defensively, turning three double plays by game's end.
 
NU starter James Mulry allowed four runs, three earned, on just four hits in 4.0 innings on the mound, striking out two but walking five. Reliever Issac Lippert tossed five strikeouts in 3.2 innings and recorded his second win of the season (2-3), while Aaron Civale registered his fourth save of the season.
 
James Madison (12-21, 2-10 CAA) did the Huskies' pitchers in for eight hits but left nine runners stranded on base. Brett Johnson and Michael Sciorra each posted two hits apiece for the Dukes while Kyle McPherson scored a run after hitting a lead-off triple in the second.
 
Northeastern began to string hits together early in the first inning as Kelly and Madigan hit back-to-back singles to put two runners on base for the Huskies. After Treff walked to load the bases, JMU starter Derek Shifflett was called for a balk, allowing Kelly to score to give NU a 1-0 lead.
 
The Dukes, however, quickly erased the Huskies' lead as McPherson tripled to right center, two batters before Sciorra poked a single through the left side that tied the game at 1-1. Mulry later issued a bases-loaded walk to Husum that gave JMU a 2-1 edge, and the Dukes made it 3-1 on a sharply-hit ground ball to second base that left Kelly with only one play at first for an out.
 
Two errors by the Northeastern defense allowed Johnson to reach third base following a base-hit, and the JMU first baseman later scored to put the Dukes ahead, 4-1, on a 6-3 double play turned by Burt and Hanley.
 
NU would earn a run back in the bottom of the third as Joey Scambia walked with the bases-loaded, bringing in Foster from third. Burt and Foster would both single in the fourth and move up a base on a wild pitch, and Northeastern tied the game at 4-4 after a sacrifice fly by Madigan and another bases-loaded walk to Treff.
 
The Huskies broke open the game in the bottom of the fifth as NU brought a total of nine batters to the plate en route to scoring three runs on just one hit during the frame. With two runners in scoring position, Lang darted home on a wild pitch to put Northeastern in front, 5-4, and Fanneron made it 6-4, coming into score on a double by Foster. Once again, Treff let ball four float by him with the bases loaded, earning another RBI on the free pass to first.
 
JMU would score one run in the seventh on an RBI single by Kyle Weston and threatened to tack on more with two runners in scoring position. With the tying run at second base, Glavine brought Civale out of the bullpen to pitch to Husum, striking him out on three pitches.
 
A clutch 6-4-3 double play executed by Burt, Kelly, and Hanley wiped the bases clean for the Huskies in the top half of the ninth. Civale ended the ninth like he did the eighth, striking out McPherson on three consecutive pitches.
 
Northeastern will travel to Quinnipiac on Wednesday, April 15, for a 3 p.m. midweek game against the Bobcats. The Huskies will return to Friedman Diamond on Friday, April 17, to begin a three-game non-conference series against NYIT.