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NEW HAVEN, Conn. -  The Southern Connecticut State University baseball team split a Northeast-10 Conference doubleheader with Le Moyne. Southern Connecticut lost the opener 4-3 before taking game two, 2-0, behind a complete game shutout from Rocco Cundari (Norwalk, Conn.). 

In the first game, the home team pushed across a run in the first on a wild pitch, only to see its lead evaporate during a two-run Dolphin second.


SCSU tied it up in the fourth when Matt Burns (Cheshire, Conn.) doubled home Alx Wichmann (Granby, Conn.), who led off with a single.


The visitiors scored twice in the sixth to take a 4-2 lead, with the Owls getting one back in their half of the inning. T.K. Kiernan (Wallingford, Conn.) singled home Burns with two outs to cut the lead to one.

A.J. Turnier (Waterford, Conn.) gave up four runs, all of them earned, on nine hits in 6.1 innings. The righty (Loss - 3-2) struck out five and walked three. Greg Zullo (Branford, Conn.) inherited a two-on, one-out jam in the seventh and emerged unscatched, getting a strikeout and a pop up. Mike Yerina (Trumbull, Conn.) was able to help the freshman out in the eighth, getting out of a similar jam with no damage.

Joe Breen (Nashua, N.H.) reached base a team-best four times for the Owls, which had four players:Burns Nick Baviello (Orange, Conn.), Kiernan and Wichmann with a pair of hits in game one..

John Mildner earned the win (2-1) for Le Moyne, with Conor Nolan picking up his first save of the season.

In game two, Southern Connecticut again got on the board first whenBrandon Docimo (Stamford, Conn.) singled home Julian Sobin (Ansonia, Conn.) in the second.


Kiernan had his second RBI hit on the afternoon in the third inning. The Owls' co-captain drove in Joyce with two outs.


Cundari hurled garnered his fourth win of the season in the night cap. The senior scattered six hits and struck out eight Dolphins.. 


The Owls, 16-13-1, host Bridgeport tomorrow afternoon.