NORTON, MA- The Wheaton College baseball team scored nine of Sunday's final 10 runs while snapping Keene State College's seven-game winning streak, as the Lyons emerged victorious for the fourth straight time following a 9-3 non-conference victory in a battle of regional heavyweights at Sidell Stadium.

Receiving votes in the D3baseball.com national poll and ranked sixth in the region by the New England Intercollegiate Baseball Association (NEIBA), Wheaton won for the 19th time in 22 games to move to 23-7.  Ranked third in New England, Keene State fell to 20-7.

Senior Sean Munley (Ewing, NJ/The Hun School of Princeton) went 3-for-5 with three RBI to lead the Lyons, classmate Eric Laliberte (Nashua, NH/Bishop Guertin) was 2-for-3 with two RBI, while senior Hadi Raad (Hastings-on-Hudson, NY/Hastings) batted 2-for-4 with a pair of runs. 

Junior Dan Haugh (Andover, MA/Saint John's Prep), who was intentionally walked twice, smacked his career-high-tying 17th double of the spring while picking up his 50th RBI.  Classmate Hal Landers (Salem, NH/Salem) scored twice and drew a pair of walks.

Freshman Alec Palioca (Wrentham, MA/King Philip Regional) yielded three earned runs on six hits while fanning two and walking four to pick up his second win of the year.  Junior David Longley (Brunswick, ME/Brunswick) tossed two shutout innings, while freshman Ryan Grant (Easton, MA/Avon Old Farms School) ran his scoreless stretch to 14 frames after getting through the ninth.

For the Owls, juniors Juan Bisano (New Britain, CT/Manchester CC) and Kyle Morrill (Auburn, NH/Memorial) had two hits apiece, while senior Bobby Doyon (Keene, NH/Keene) and freshman Nick Vita (Spofford, NH/Keene) each homered.  Sophomore John Coughlin (Litchfield, NH/Campbell) was saddled with the loss, allowing five runs, four of which were earned, on six hits with two walks in four innings.

Vita got things going in the third with a one-out solo blast over the left field fence.  Three batters later, senior Tyler DiPrato (Suffield, CT/Suffield) singled home a run to make the score 2-0.  Palioca averted further damage with a strikeout before getting his final batter to fly out.  The hosts answered back with a four-run home half, as Munley plated two with two down.  Laliberte put the Lyons on the board with a deep single to right center, and Wheaton made the score 4-2 with an unearned run thanks to a defensive miscue.

Laliberte brought home Wheaton's fifth run with a single in the fourth before Doyon homered the following frame to pull the Owls back within two.  The Lyons added two runs in the sixth, with Munley and sophomore Eric Jensen (Gorham, NH/Gorham) each picking up an RBI, and an additional two insurance runs in the eighth on Haugh's RBI double and sophomore Dan Gusovsky's (Andover, MA/Andover) sac fly.

Wheaton is off until Wednesday's New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Tournament, where the top-seeded Lyons will begin defense of their championship against visiting fourth seed United States Coast Guard Academy at 3:30 p.m.