GORHAM, Maine--All nine starters recorded a hit and freshman pitcher Fernando Burgos (Hyde Park, Mass.) cruised through six innings, to lead UMass Boston baseball to a sweep of #18 University of Southern Maine with a 9-4 win. 

THE BASICS

UMass Boston 9, #18 Southern Maine 4

(UMass Boston 20-12, Little East 6-4)

(Southern Maine 21-10, Little East 7-3)

HOW IT HAPPENED

The Beacons scored five runs in the third and tacked on three more in the fourth, to stake Burgos to an 8-0 lead. Burgos would keep the Huskies quiet from there, as he allowed just one earned run in six innings. 

Lionel Danielson (Saint Croix, Virgin Islands), Dave Murphy (Plymouth, Mass.), Anthony Searles(Shelton, Conn.), Kyle Boudrias (Medford, Mass.) and Sal Frosceno (Derby, Conn.) each finished with two of the Beacons' 15 hits. Ryan Olivo (Rochester, N.Y.) and Danielson each finished with two RBI in the victory, while Murphy and Frosceno each crossed the plate twice. 

Burgos hurled his second gem in nine days, to shut down the top team in New England. In two starts this season against the Huskies, Burgos has allowed just five hits, two unearned runs and five walks in 14 innings of work. 

Freshman relievers Bobby Tramondozzi (Peabody, Mass.) and Manny Garcia (Boston, Mass.) combined to throw the final three innings, as UMass Boston earned their first sweep over the Huskies since 2012. 

Southern Maine freshman Matt Correale fell to 0-3, after allowing four hits and five runs, one earned, in 2.2 innings. As a whole, six Huskies pitchers combined to allow 15 hit and five earned runs, while striking out four. 

After a quiet first two innings, UMass Boston struck for five runs in the top of the third. 

Bryan Dupre (Chicopee, Mass.) reached second on a lead-off error and took third on a Frosceno double. Danielson quickly pushed the lead to 2-0, as the sophomore right fielder laced a double to left center to score both runners. After a lineout, an intentional walk and a double steal put two runners in scoring position with one out, Olivo plated Danielson with an RBI groundout. Searles followed with a line drive RBI single to center to score Murphy and Charlie Huegi (Newtown, Conn.) greeted a reliever with an RBI single to plate Searles.

Burgos shut down the Huskies with a 1-2-3 bottom of the third, to set up the Beacons' offense for another look at Ryan Browner.

In the fourth, UMass Boston scored three runs on six hits, as they reached the seven-run mark for the fifth time during their seven-game winning streak.

UMass Boston opened the fourth with a pair of singles and a fielder's choice, to put runners at the corners with one down. Murphy pushed the lead to 6-0 with an RBI double that easily scored Frosceno. Olivo followed with an RBI single to score Dan Mantoni (Northbridge, Mass.) and Searles tacked on an eighth run, with a perfectly executed safety squeeze bunt, that resulted in an infield single.

After Southern Maine scored an unearned run in the fifth, UMass Boston capped off their scoring with some small ball in the seventh. Boudrias opened the inning with a single and moved to third on a Dupre one-out single. With one down and runners at the corners, Frosceno grounded out to second to push the lead to 9-1. 

BY THE NUMBERS

• UMass Boston improved to 13-42 all-time against the Huskies with the win. The Beacons picked up their first regular season sweep since 2012 over Southern Maine and their third sweep in the past decade. Overall, UMass Boston has gone 9-7 against the Huskies since May of 2010.
• The 2016 Beacons join the 2010 and 2015 teams as the only teams to have reached the 20-win milestone. UMass Boston went 32-17 in 2010 and finished 23-15 in 2015.
• Burgos' earned run average dropped to a 0.94 with the victory. He currently sits in third amongst LEC starters, behind only Jordan Munchin (0.89) of Eastern Connecticut State University and Todd Lyons (0.90) of Western Connecticut State University. 
• UMass Boston's seven-game winning streak is tied for the program's second longest winning streak. The 2010 team won seven in a row from April 8-18, 2010 and also won nine in a row during their 2010 postseason run (May 9-22).
• The Beacons' 15 hit are tied for their second-most this season. 

WHO'S NEXT 

UMass Boston will take the short trek to Cambridge, as they will take on MIT on Thursday at 4 p.m. The Beacons handed the Engineers a 4-0 loss in both team's season opener on March 7.