Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 DUDLEY, Mass.--Freshman Gabby Lavinio went 5-for-8, including her first two career home runs and a double, with three runs scored and three runs batted in on the afternoon, powering the Western New England softball team to a Commonwealth Coast Conference sweep of Nichols on Friday, 7-0 in the first game and 8-0 in five inning in the nightcap. The Golden Bears climb to the .500-mark at 15-15 overall (11-7 in the CCC) while the Bison slip to 10-18 on the season (5-11 in the conference).

In the opener, sophomore Heather Fecteau hit a two-run single up the middle to stake WNE to a 2-0 lead in the top of the very first inning and Lavinio followed with a run-scoring single to right-center. The Golden Bears never looked back.

Already up 4-0 in the fifth inning, Western New England hit back-to-back home runs by Lavinio and sophomore Alexis Bukowski.

Senior co-captains Maria Francese, Katie Eckert and sophomore Samantha Mulhern added two hits apiece, while Lavinio finished the contest with three.  The Golden Bears produced 11 as a team.

Avery Orszulak and Christina Drake had Nichols' two hits against sophomore Mickayla Keltos, who went the distance to pick up the win (3-2). Keltos had three strikeouts and she did not walk a batter.

In the second game, the Golden Bears got off to another quick start with two runs in the opening frame. Eckert had a sacrifice fly and Francese scored on an error.

After a scoreless second, WNE scored twice in the third, once in the fourth and tacked on three more in the fifth and final frame. The Golden Bears took advantage of five Bison errors while playing error-free themselves.

Fecteau and Lavinio led the offense with two hits apiece, plus Eckert had a double, junior Jocelyn Agnelli and freshman Corianna DeLisi each contributed a hit. Lavinio belted her second blast of the day over the fence in dead-center in the third inning.

Sophomore Heidi Grieger (5-6) had four strikeouts and no walks in five innings before freshman Samantha DiGiovanni struck out two in a hitless sixth to close it.

Emalee Watkins and Orszulak each had a hit for Nichols, which allowed four unearned runs.

Western New England closes CCC play and will tune up for the conference tournament with a Tuesday doubleheader at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.