NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA- The Wheaton College baseball team scored six runs in the fourth inning to break open a 1-0 game during the Lyons' 10-3 win at non-conference foe University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth on Tuesday afternoon.

Ranked 16th nationally in the most recent D3baseball.com poll and second in the region by the New England Intercollegiate Baseball Association (NEIBA), Wheaton improved its record to 26-8.  The Corsairs fell to 12-18.

Sophomore Frank Holbrook (Middletown, RI/Portsmouth Abbey School) improved to 6-0 on the hill despite pitching only three innings, as the Lyons prearranged to have two hurlers toss three innings apiece and three pitchers one frame each.  Holbrook fired three shutout innings of two-hit ball, while freshman Ryan Grant (Easton, MA/Avon Old Farms School) extended his scoreless stretch to 16 innings with a 1-2-3 ninth.

Senior Hadi Raad (Hastings-on-Hudson, NY/Hastings) went 3-for-4 with two runs, a pair of RBI and a double, junior Hal Landers (Salem, NH/Salem) recorded a double and a triple while plating two runs and scoring three, while senior Tad Skelley (Wolfeboro, NH/Holderness School) was 2-for-3 with two RBI and a run.

The hosts, who committed four errors on the day, managed just five hits.  Sophomore Aaron Brunette (North Andover, MA/North Andover) took the loss, allowing seven earned runs on 11 hits with two strikeouts and a pair of walks in five-plus innings.

Holding a 1-0 lead thanks to a third-inning unearned run, the Lyons scored six times on five hits the following frame, as Raad and Landers provided back-to-back two-RBI hits.  Skelley's sacrifice fly made the score 7-0, while freshman Mike Bisceglia's (New Boston, NH/Goffstown) RBI single earlier in the frame pushed Wheaton's first run of the inning across.

The Corsairs drew three straight walks to load the bags with one down in the home half of the fourth before eventually scoring twice to pull within five, however the Blue and White's three-run sixth put the game out of reach.  Three straight hits by Raad, Landers and Skelley, respectively, brought around Wheaton's first run before a two-out defensive miscue scored two more Lyons for a 10-2 advantage.

The region's top two teams will do battle on Thursday, when Wheaton hosts Eastern Connecticut State University at 3:30 p.m.  The Warriors are ranked seventh in the country.