LOWELL, Mass. -- Five Northeastern pitchers combined on a four-hit shutout as the Huskies (13-10) blanked UMass Lowell (8-13) by a score of 6-0 on Wednesday afternoon. Carmelo Musacchia led the offense with a 3-for-4 day, while Anthony Ruggiero added three hits and two RBIs as Northeastern collected 13 hits in the road victory.

David McSweeney (W, 1-1) anchored the pitching staff with four scoreless innings of two-hit ball, and the bullpen trio of Jack Cropper, Scott Longo, and Tom Mahoney combined for four more shutout frames to complete the nine-inning blank.

• Ryan McCarroll set the tone with a perfect first inning, retiring all three batters he faced before handing the ball to McSweeney.
• Northeastern broke through in the second when Matt Brinker walked and Ruggiero singled down the left field line to put runners at the corners. Chris Walsh lifted a sacrifice fly to right to plate Brinker for the 1-0 lead.
• The Huskies added two more in the fifth. Ryan Gerety doubled to right field and Feinberg singled up the middle to put runners at the corners. Brinker drove in Gerety with a sacrifice fly, and Ruggiero followed with an RBI single to score Feinberg and make it 3-0.
• Harrison Feinberg provided the biggest swing of the day in the seventh, launching a solo home run to left field — his fourth of the season — to extend the lead to 4-0.
• Northeastern tacked on two insurance runs in the ninth. Musacchia singled and Gerety followed with a single down the left field line before Brinker's RBI groundout made it 5-0. Ruggiero reached on an infield single but the throw was off, and allowed Gerety to score from third to make it 6-0.
• McSweeney was sharp across his four innings, allowing two hits with two strikeouts while not issuing a walk. He worked around a runner in scoring position in the fifth, inducing a groundout to escape the inning unscathed.
• Cropper followed with two scoreless innings of his own, striking out three while allowing just one walk. Longo worked around a pair of singles in the eighth, and Mahoney closed it out with a 1-2-3 ninth that included a strikeout.
• Musacchia reached base in four of his five plate appearances, going 3-for-4 with a walk. Ruggiero went 3-for-5 with two RBIs. Feinberg finished 2-for-4 with a home run, an RBI, a walk, and a stolen base.
• The Huskies did not commit an error for the second straight game, and held UMass Lowell to 0-for-5 with runners in scoring position.
• It is Northeastern's third shutout of the season and first on the road since blanking Stony Brook 4-0 on March 6th.

Northeastern heads to Hofstra this weekend for a three-game CAA series beginning Friday, March 27th at 2 p.m.