MANSFIELD, Conn. - First=year OF Dylan Schnitzer (Huntington, N.Y.) went 4-for-4 with two runs, four RBIs, and a walk to lead the visiting Trinity College Bantams to an 11-5 victory over the Eastern Connecticut State University Warriors in baseball action this afternoon at Eastern Stadium.  Trinity improves to 12-5 with its third win in a row and its fifth in six games, while the No. 5-ranked Warriors fall to 17-4.  Trinity will head to Maine for a three-game series at New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) rival Bowdoin College on Friday and Saturday.

Trinity jumped right out to a 6-0 lead after three innings and never looked back.  Schintzer singled in fellow rookie Tyler Bernstein (Ponte Vedra, Calif.) and junior C Jack Ryan (Bethesda, Md.) with two outs in the first inning, while first-year William Frain (South Hamilton, Mass.) smacked an RBI double in the second inning for the Bantams.  Trinity scored three runs in the third frame, as junior SS Jack Mathews (Westport, Conn.) led off with a double and scored on another Schnitzer single, Ryan was hit by a pitch and scored on a sacrifice fly by junior OF James Stefanowicz (Norwalk, Conn.), and Schnitzer came around to score when the Warriors botched the defense of a double steal.

Trinity junior RHP Ian Brown (Tampa, Fla.) threw three scoreless innings to start the game until Eastern Connecticut's Brent Cosculluela hit a two-run double in the fourth. The Bantams answered in a big way, however, scoring five times in the top of the fifth stanza. Six of the first seven batters in the inning got hits, two doubles and four singles, including run-scoring knocks by Schnitzer and senior Brandon Chow (Greenwich, Conn.), an RBI double by senior Colin Mann (Dedham, Mass.), and a two-run double by Frain. 

Bantam sophomore righty Tyler Colditz (Lakewood Ranch, Fla.) pitched the fifth and the sixth innings to improve to 2-0 and classmate Jonathan Link (Holmes, N.Y.) recorded the last five outs without allowing a run.  Frain finished 3-for-5 with three RBIs, while Mann and senior co-captain 2B Patrick Dillon (Bronx, N.Y.) had two hits apiece.  Alejandro Soriano was 4-for-5 for the Warriors, who used seven pitchers including Nolan Lincoln who started and took the loss.