DANBURY, Conn. - The Western Connecticut State University baseball team suffered a 19/16-1/3 doubleheader sweep against the visiting University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth Corsairs in Little East Conference (LEC) action this afternoon at Westside Field.  Both games were shortened to seven innings.  WestConn drops to 4-11 overall and 0-4 in the LEC and the Corsairs improve to 9-13 overall and 2-2 in the league.  The Wolves will visit Lehman next on Tuesday at 4 p.m.

In the first game, WestConn junior starter Brian Mansfield (Lynbrook, N.Y.) battled Corsair starter Alex Tawa through th first two scoreless innings.  Mansfield struck out three through two innings and three more in the third frame but UMass Dartmouth used five singles, a walk, three steals, and two wild pitches to score four runs in the same inning.  WestConn scored its run in the fourth inning when junior 2B Ryan Vallie (East Haven, Conn.) was hit by a pitch and scored on a two-out, RBI single by senior OF Peter Coniglio (New Milford, Conn.).  Sophomore 3B Mitch Landau (Northport, N.Y.) singled after Coniglio to load the bases but Tawa struck out WestConn's junior SS Bryan Birkl (Farmingdale, N.Y.) to end the threat.

UMass Dartmouth scored an unearned run in the fifth inning and three unearned runs in the sixth before erupting for 10 runs in the seventh inning.  Landau finished 2-for-2 with a walk for the Wolves offense, while Cooper Wixon was 3-for-5 with four runs and four RBIs for the Corsairs.  Mansfield struck out seven in 4.1 innings but dropped to 1-4.  A.J. Rourke fanned five and allowed three runs over the last four innings and improved to 1-2.

UMass Dartmouth jumped out to a 6-0 lead in its first two turns at bat in the second game.  WestConn sophomore Billy Untiet (Prospect, Conn.) walked and scored on two Corsairs errors to make it, 6-1, after three innings but the visitors scored two unearned runs in the fourth to increase its advantage to 8-1.  In the bottom of the fourth, sophomore C Elliot Kleinman (Nanuet, N.Y.) led off with a single and classmate Sal Visone (North Bellmore, N.Y.) drew a walk.  After a pair of strikeouts, Untiet came through with an RBI single to score Kleinman and junior Thomas Keugh (Plainville, Conn.) drove home Visone with a two-out single.  The Corsairs touched up Wolves relievers for eight runs over the next three innings, however, to earn the lopsided victory.