NEW BRITAIN, CONN. – LIU baseball amassed a total of 13 runs on Saturday in its fifth win in the last six games, taking down Central Connecticut State, 13-10. With the win, the Sharks move to 19-11 and pick up another Northeast Conference win, moving to 5-3 against their conference opponents. 
 
The offense started hot, as Seth Surrett, Michael Edelman, and EJ Exposito all singled to load the bases in the first. With one out, Christopher Wasson was hit by a pitch to score the game's first run. Colin Adams would follow with a grand slam to right, scoring four and widening the gap to 5-0. CCSU responded with three runs on four hits of its own, narrowing the deficit to 5-3 heading to the second. 
 
RJ Latkowski and Surrett singled and doubled, respectively, to put two more runners on base. Edelman would groundout to score Latkowski, and Exposito would single to score Surrett to put two runs on the board, pushing the lead to 7-3. 
 
The Blue Devils tied the game on one swing, hitting their own grand slam from Covino. It was 7-7 after two innings. 
 
After Wasson doubled to left to start the third, Christopher Hund walked, giving the Sharks more to work with. After both advanced on a wild pitch, Boekhout grounded into a fielder's choice to score Wasson and add another run to their total, making it 8-3, LIU.
 
Nick DeSalvo entered the game for Jalen Wade and proceeded to force a strikeout and a double play ball to end the inning quickly. In the top of the fourth, the Sharks made it four-straight innings with two runners on base. Ciaccio got ahold of a ball in the zone and hammered it to left on a two-run homerun to make it 10-7, LIU. 
 
CCSU would add a run to make it 10-8 after four, but neither team would score again during the next two innings. DeSalvo continued to deal, only surrendering two hits through the next three innings. 
 
The top of the seventh saw three runs cross the plate. Wasson scored on an error, Latkowski collected an RBI single, and Surrett hit a sacrifice fly to center. It was 13-8, Sharks, after seven. Nick Torres entered for DeSalvo and forced three straight outs to head to the ninth.
 
In the bottom of the ninth, Josh Gainer came on to collect the final two outs on a strikeout and pop-out to third to seal the victory, 13-10. The Sharks tied their season highs for hits in a game with 16, and they were one shy of their season-high run total of 16. 

DeSalvo was given the win after throwing five innings and giving up five hits and just one earned run with seven strikeouts. Gainer earned the save, his fourth of the season.

Up next, LIU finishes the series against the Blue Devils on Sunday, April 10 at 1:00 p.m.