MANSFIELD, Conn. – Trinity College collected 15 hits off seven Eastern Connecticut State University pitchers – scoring six runs in its first three at-bats – in an 11-5 non-conference win Tuesday afternoon at the Eastern Baseball Stadium.

Ranked No. 5 nationally  and No. 2 in New England and riding a six-game winning streak, defending national champion Eastern (17-4), allowed two unearned runs with two out in the first and never fully recovered and Trinity (12-5) broke the game open by scoring five runs on six hits in the fifth to move out to an 11-2 lead. Trinity has won three straight and five of six.

Junior righty Ian Brown allowed only two hits over the first three innings and his team led, 6-0, before the Warriors reached him for their first two runs of the game in the bottom of the fourth on lefty-hitting senior third baseman Brent Cosculluela's (Miami, FL) two-run double over the first base bag. The Bantams quickly countered with their five-run fifth, however when No. 3 hitter Patrick Dillon and Colin Mann bookended doubles around singles by cleanup hitter Jack Ryan and Dylan Schnitzer. Each of those first four hitters in the inning scored, with William Frain driving in two of them with a single to center.

Nearly half (seven) of Trinity's hits were doubles, with Dillon and Frain recording two each. Schnitzer reached in all five plate appearances with four hits and a walk. He drove in four runs and scored two. Ryan reached four times with a single, walk, hit-by-pitch and error and scored three times. Frain had three hits and three RBI and scored once.

Junior righty Nolan Lincoln (Londonderry, NH) allowed six runs (three earned) on five hits with four strikeouts and two walks over the first three innings and had a personal ten-game winning streak snapped. Lincoln (4-1) carried a personal 12-1 pitching record into the contest and had pitched into the seventh inning of a 7-4 win over No. 21 Wheaton College a week ago.

Junior DH Alejandro Soriano (Hartford) had four singles and scored twice for Eastern and junior rightfielder Josh Cofrancesco (Southington) and senior second baseman Noah Plantamuro (Bristol) each had two hits. Soriano singled on the first pitch he saw in the second, singled and scored in the fourth, singled and helped build a run in the sixth and singled and scored in the eighth with the help of a wild pitch and walk.

Eastern hosts Johnson & Wales University Thursday at 4 p.m. in a non-conference game.