Box Score SPRINGFIELD, Mass.--The Western New England University baseball team was powered to a 3-2 win over Suffolk University Tuesday afternoon at Trelease Park with five shutout innings of relief by senior pitchers Mike Lospinuso and Kevin Jefferis. The non-conference win improves the Golden Bears' record to 10-5, while the visiting Rams are now 13-3 after losing for the second time in eight road starts.

Western New England starter Trevor Breton went four innings, giving up four hits and two runs, but ran into trouble in the fifth when he walked center fielder Mac Jacobson and gave up a double off the right field fence to first baseman Jake Cintolo. Lospinuso then came into the game to replace Breton, and got the Golden Bears out of the jam while allowing only one inherited runner to score after no outs.

Lospinuso (4-0), the two-time defending Commonwealth Coast Conference pitcher of the week, shut the Rams out over the next three innings, giving up only two hits before being replaced by the closer Jefferis for the ninth. Jefferis cruised through the final inning, striking out the last two batters to earn his first save of the season.

"This was an important win for us today. Suffolk is having a terrific year and they gave us all we could handle," Western New England coach Matt LaBranche said after the game. "I'm pleased with the way we grinded it out in tough weather conditions (gusty winds, temps in high 30s). The best news of the day was having (Kevin) Jefferis go out and dominate the ninth. We need him healthy and doing that (kind of performance) the rest of the way."

Offensively, the Golden Bears did all of their damage in the third inning. Catcher Tom Booth led off with an infield single, and center fielder Jeff Schult followed that with a single to left. Both runners advanced on a sacrifice by right fielder Matt Anthonis, and then third baseman Mike Rubino singled home the Golden Bears' first run of the game to tie the score at 1-1. Designated hitter and cleanup man Steve Buckley followed Rubino's single with a two-run triple off the centerfield fence that came within a couple feet of being his first home run of the season. The Golden Bears could have done more damage--with the bases loaded and only one out--but Suffolk starter Josh Desai (L, 7 IP, 8 H, 3 ER, 6 K) was able to work himself out of trouble.

The Rams, who scored in the third inning on an RBI single by left fielder Chris Stanley (1-4), added another in the fifth when Jacobson scored from third on a fielder's choice to draw within one run at 3-2. Suffolk could not get anything going for the rest of the game, however, as it managed only one hit in the sixth and one in the seventh.

Cintolo (2-3, BB) and right fielder Mike Cunningham (1-2, 2 BB) were the only Rams to get on base three times.

Western New England had three players with a multi-hit day, including Booth (2-4), Anthonis (2-3) and first baseman Steve Ambrosino (2-3, BB).

The Golden Bears, winners of four straight, host UMass-Boston tomorrow at 3:30 in another non-conference contest. Suffolk returns to Boston tomorrow to host a conference doubleheader against Lasell.