Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score
Post-Game Interview

BIDDEFORD, Maine -- The University of New England offense cracked 22 hits while the pitching and defense limited Eastern Nazarene College to just three as the Nor'easters closed out their Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) slate with an 8-0, 9-1 sweep on Thursday afternoon (Apr. 17) at Claude Dubois Field.

Big Blue needed only 11 innings to move to 22-12 on the year, 12-6 in league games. The Lions fall back to 7-19 overall (3-13 CCC).

Eight players had multiple hits on the day for UNE, led by senior Amanda Vaudreuil who went 4-for-6 with two home runs. Classmate Ali Stanley paired with Vaudreuil to drive in nine runs for the hosts, while sophomore pitchers Abby Lambert and Lauren Doneski kept the ENC batters in-check with a combined 15 strikeouts.

The Nor'easters led game one by a score of 1-0 heading into the 5th, courtesy of a solo blast to left-center two innings earlier by Vaudreuil. After Lambert retired the Lions, in order, the Big Blue bats came alive in the bottom of the frame for six runs.

With one away, Vaudreuil put a two-run shot over the fence in left, scoring graduate student Allie Frazier on the play. Then, two-out singles from sophomore Kelly Murphy and junior Adrienne Chase set the stage for Lambert to bring both home with a single down the line in left. An error prolonged the inning and left two in scoring position for Stanley, who worked a single out into right-center and upped the margin to 7-0.

Frazier began the last half of the 6th with a stand-up triple to right-center, and Vaudreuil ended the contest with a single in the same direction. The pair accounted for half of UNE's hits (5) and runs (4) in the game, while Vaudreuil factored in six of the scores with her four RBI.

Lambert fanned eight against two singles (1 infield, 1 outfield) and one free pass to improve to 8-6 and notch her first shutout of 2014.

Eastern Nazarene seniors Abigail Moore and Sam Losano tallied the hits off Lambert. Junior Olivia Tovar took the loss in the circle.

Big Blue wasted little time taking control of game two by plating six runs in the bottom of the 1st inning, behind seven hits and a couple walks. With Vaudreuil at first, sophomore Amanda Vallante posted her first of two hits in the stanza, and a sacrifice bunt moved both into scoring position. Chase brought one home with a single, and senior Jessica Potter loaded things up with an infield single. Sophomore Meghan Bolano made to 2-0 with another infield hit, before Stanley followed with the game's only extra-base hit -- a bases-clearing double to center. The bases were juiced again soon after for Vallante to single into left-center and increase the cushion to 6-0.

The Nor'easters padded the lead in the 2nd while again leaving the bases full. First-year Sydney Helmbrecht registered her second hit to drive in Bolano and Stanley, making it 8-0.

After getting their first base runner in the 3rd on a walk, the Lions combined a lead-off walk by Moore with a two-out single through the left side from sophomore Sterling Marino to put one run on the scoreboard in the 4th inning.

That would be all ENC could muster against Doneski, marking the first time in three years that a Big Blue hurler recorded a one-hit performance in the circle. Doneski struck out seven to move to 9-4 on the season.

The game came to a close with one down in the bottom of the 5th, as first-year Corina Hickey squeezed a single into shallow right field to score one and provide an 8-run advantage.

Eastern Nazarene, which got three strikeouts from junior Carissa Cicolini in the nightcap, visits Nichols College on Tuesday (3 p.m.).

The Nor'easters are back in action the same evening (5 p.m.) for a non-conference doubleheader at Saint Joseph's College (Maine).


Click HERE to watch the post-game interview with Allie Frazier, Amanda Vaudreuil, Kirstyn Tracey, Jessica Potter, and Ali Stanley