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BROOKLINE, Mass. – First baseman Rob Fonseca blasted two home runs and sophomore Pat Madigan added another homer over the outfield wall as the Northeastern baseball team swept Hofstra in 8-3 fashion during Sunday's series finale.
 
Fonseca went three-for-three from the plate with a walk and three runs scored, collecting five RBIs for the first time since March 2 against Mount St. Mary's. The NU power hitter smacked a two-run bomb in the bottom of the third inning that tied the game at 2-2 before clearing the bases again in the sixth with a three-run shot. He also tallied his seventh double of the season, bringing his extra-base hit total to 14 on the year.
 
With the victory, Northeastern (20-22, 10-5 CAA) surpassed the 20-win mark for the fourth consecutive season and has won nine of its last 11 games, including four straight. The Huskies also improved to 9-0 in home CAA games after successfully sweeping Delaware, James Madison, and Hofstra this season.
 
Madigan's solo home run in the bottom of the third was the outfielder's fifth of the year, two fewer than Fonseca's 2015 total of seven homers. The sophomore from Freeport, New York, finished the game having achieved the two hardest parts of the cycle courtesy of a fifth-inning RBI triple.
 
James Mulry allowed two runs on four hits in 6.0 innings on the mound for NU, walking two and striking out two. Isaac Lippert registered his third save of the season after holding Hofstra (15-25, 3-15 CAA) to one run on two hits and striking out a season-high seven batters.
 
Catcher Josh Treff's lone hit of the day was hammered down the right-field line for a double in the bottom of the fourth, while freshman Nolan Lang went two-for-three and scored once. Maxwell Burt demonstrated his strong defensive glove at shortstop all game long, diving backwards to snag a liner as a part of Mulry's four-pitch inning in the top of the fourth.
 
Hofstra's six hits on Sunday were the most the Pride managed to record during its three-game series with Northeastern. Chris Hardardt went three-for-four with two doubles while first baseman Brian MacDonald powered a two-run home run over the scoreboard in left field in the top of the second. Nick Kozlowski made it through only 3.0 innings before Hofstra dived into its bullpen, throwing five different pitchers at the Huskies by game's end.
 
Keith Kelly led off the bottom of the first for Northeastern with a five-pitch walk before Fonseca doubled off the wall in left field, putting two runners in scoring position. NU would load the bases after Hanley's ground ball to third base left the Hofstra fielder with little chance of making an out at first, but Kozlowski recovered nicely to keep the Huskies scoreless after one.
 
Mulry hit David Leiderman with an inside pitch that put a base runner on for the Pride in the second. MacDonald would come through for Hofstra during the next at-bat, sending the first pitch he received from the NU starter over the wall for a two-run homer.
 
Trailing, 2-0, Northeastern rallied in the bottom half of the third after Kelly reached first base on a dropped third strike. Fonseca proceeded to knock the cover off the ball during the next at-bat, matching MacDonald's homer with one of his own and tying the game at 2-2. Two batters later, Madigan crushed a ball that landed beyond the NU bullpen, giving the Huskies a 3-2 lead.
 
With the help of a diving catch made by Burt at shortstop, Mulry retired the Pride on just four pitches in the top of the fourth, allowing the Huskies to get right back to work offensively. Treff opened the home half of the inning with a double down the left-field line, but NU was unable to bring the catcher around to score.
 
With Fonseca on first following a lead-off walk in the fifth, Madigan smoked a ball through the gap in right-center that rolled all the way to the wall, allowing the sophomore to slide in safe at third with an RBI triple. Joey Scambia brought Madigan home on an RBI single to left shortly there after, giving the Huskies a 5-2 edge midway through the game.
 
Burt helped Mulry clear the bases again in the sixth by starting a 6-4-3 double play, and Fonseca reassured that the left-hander would be in line for the win with a three-run home run in the sixth that put NU ahead, 8-2. Hofstra would score one run in the eighth after Treff threw behind a stealing Steven Foster at third, but Lippert would strike out seven of the 13 batters he faced en route to collecting a three-inning save.
 
Northeastern will resume its CAA schedule on Friday, May 1, at 3 p.m. when the Huskies travel to Towson to begin a three-game weekend series. NU will play each of its next eight games on the road before the Huskies close out the 2015 season with a three-game home series against College of Charleston between May 14 and May 16.