PURCHASE, N.Y. - Freshman Ryan Vallie (East Haven, Conn.) went 5-for-5 with a triple, a run, and three RBIs to lead the visiting Western Connecticut State University Wolves to a 9-3 victory over the SUNY Purchase Panthers in baseball action this afternoon.  WestConn halts a five-game losing skid and improves its record to 4-15, while the Panthers fall to 12-12.  Wolves senior starter Samuel Capetanakis (Easton, Conn.) allowed nine hits and three runs with three strikeouts and three walks over seven innings to collect his first win of the season, while sophomore reliever Kenneth Firlings (Middletown, R.I.) earned a save with two scoreless innings to close it out.  WestConn will play Little East Conference (LEC) foe Plymouth State twice on a neutral site at Trinity College in Hartford on Saturday at 7 p.m.

WestConn fell behind, 2-0, on a two-run triple by Joe Salerno in the first inning, but tied the game with two of their own runs in the second frame.  Junior Spencer Barnett (Danbury, Conn.) doubled, followed by a walk by junior Robert Garcia (Farmingville, N.Y.) and both came around to score on a two-out single by Vallie. Wolves senior Jesse Dunn (Bedford, N.Y.) continued the inning with a single but the third out was recorded at while sophomore Richard Salonia (Bronx, N.Y.) was trying to score the go-ahead run.  Dunn gave WestConn a 4-3 lead with a two-out, run-scoring double in the fourth inning.  Vallie tripled in the sixth and scored on an RBI single by sophomore Peter Coniglio (New Milford, Conn.) to make it, 4-2.

The Panthers cut heir deficit to one with a run in the fourth, but Firlings came in and pitched a perfect top of the eighth.  The Wolves put the game away with five runs in the bottom of the eighth.  Barnett, freshman Thomas Keough (Farmington, Conn.), and Vallie had RBI singles for WestConn in the inning.  Purchase got two runners on base in the ninth on a hit batsman and a walk, but failed to put a run across.  Coniglio and Barnett were both 3-for-5, while Dunn, Salonia, and senior Stanley Roman (Danbury, Conn.) each had two hits  for WestConn offensively.  The Panthers used seven pitchers.