BOX SCORE 1 | BOX SCORE 2 WEST HAVEN, Conn. – The University of New Haven baseball team got hits from 11 different players in a Northeast-10 doubleheader sweep of visiting Saint Anselm. The Chargers took the twin bill by scores of 7-3 and 12-6.
 
Following the sweep, New Haven improves to 8-7 overall and 5-6 in the NE-10. The Hawks drop to 9-18 with a 3-7 conference mark. As today's doubleheader was originally set to be played in Manchester, Saint Anselm batted in the home half of each inning.
 
Game 1
Saint Anselm plated the day's first run on a one-out double by Dan Lagasse before the Chargers got on the board in the top of the third. Brendan O'Reilly singled to start the frame and advanced into scoring position as Chris DeMorais (West Hartford, Conn./Conard) worked a walk. Brendon Buckley (Monroe, Conn./Masuk) dropped down a sacrifice bunt to move both runners over, and a Zach Collett (Westbrook, Maine/Westbrook) groundball to short allowed O'Reilly to race home. TJ Riccio (Port Jeff Station, N.Y./Comsewogue) added what would prove to be the game-winning RBI with a single to plate DeMorais and staked New Haven to a 2-1 advantage.
 
The Blue and Gold added to their lead in the fourth, started by a one-out double from Andrew Johnson (Branford, Conn./Branford / Wheaton). The Chargers' second baseman then swiped third and came home on DeMorais' RBI base-knock.
 
New Haven would continue to build its cushion, loading the bases with no outs in the fifth. Riccio led off the stanza with a single, followed by a bunt single from Kyle Cullen (Dumont, N.J./Dumont) and an Eddie Tammaro (South Hempstead, N.Y./South Side) walk. Tom Walraven (Pine Bush, N.Y./Pine Bush) delivered the big hit with a two-run single to extend the margin to 5-1.
 
After Joe Morin's RBI single took a run off the New Haven lead in the bottom of the fifth inning, the Chargers took it back in the top of the seventh. Cullen reached on a throwing error to begin the frame and advanced on Tammaro's sacrifice bunt. A balk pushed him 90 feet farther, and Walraven brought him around to score with a sacrifice fly.
 
It was Morin who once again brought home a run for the Hawks on an RBI single in the last of the seventh, but the Chargers' offense continued to click. Back-to-back two-out doubles from Buckley and Collett in the top of the eighth notched another run to bring the score to its eventual final of 7-3.
 
Right-hander John Melville (Ulster Park, N.Y./Kingston) started on the mound and earned his first win of the season. The senior worked the first six frames, scattering two earned runs on five hits, three walks and three wild pitches while striking out five.
 
Southpaw Connor Moriarty (Branford, Conn./Branford) – the winning pitcher in yesterday's nightcap against Saint Michael's – pitched the seventh, and right-handers Lewicki and Buckley each hung a zero to complete the effort on the bump.
 
Walraven went 2-for-4 with three RBI in the opener, while Collett knocked in two runs. Riccio was 3-for-5 at the dish as a part of the Chargers' 15-hit barrage. Cullen had two stolen bases and Johnson also swiped a bag.
 
Game 2
The Chargers struck first in the second game, started by Johnson's one-out single in the top of the first. After taking second on a wild pitch, he came around the score and a DeMorais double.
 
Saint Anselm would claim a brief advantage with two runs in the bottom of the frame, before New Haven broke the contest open with a 10-run flurry in the top of the third. Lewicki, Cullen and O'Reilly each had two RBI in the frame, with Buckley, Collett, Walraven and DeMorais also driving in runs. The Chargers sent 15 runners to the plate, pounding nine hits and chasing Hawks' starter Autrey Gates from the contest.
 
With the result all but decided, New Haven would also add a Walraven RBI as three Chargers' hurlers made the sizeable margin stand up.
 
Joey Royer (Westbrook, Maine/Cheverus) went the first seven innings to record the win. The southpaw racked up 10 strikeouts while ceding two earned runs on nine hits and one walk. Taylor Hughes (Nantucket, Mass./Nantucket / Bridgton Academy) worked a hitless, scoreless eighth, and Pat Simone (Branford, Conn./Branford) finished off the 12-6 triumph.
 
Cullen and DeMorais were both 3-for-4 with two RBI in the nightcap, with Cullen also stealing a base. Walraven, O'Reilly and Lewicki drove in two runs apiece in the second game, which saw 10 different Chargers notch a base-hit.
 
The Blue and Gold return to the diamond on Tuesday, visiting defending East Coast Conference champion Saint Thomas Aquinas for a 3:30 p.m. contest. Northeast-10 Southwest Division play resumes the following day with a 3:30 p.m. trip to Pace.