DARTMOUTH, Mass. - Senior pitchers Olivia Bordenaro (Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.) and sophomore Lindsay Farinacchio (Red Hook, N.Y.) combined to allow one run and 11 hits over 14 innings to lead the visiting Western Connecticut State University Wolves to a 1/5-1/1 softball doubleheader sweep against the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Corsairs in Little East Conference (LEC) action this afternoon.  WestConn improves to 17-11 overall and 5-3 in the LEC, while the Corsairs fall to 13-13 overall and 1-7 in the league.  WestConn will host conference foe Rhode Island College next in a doubleheader on Saturday at 1 p.m.

WestConn junior SS Jaycee Filancia (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.) led off the first game with a double and scored on a groundout by sophomore Kendall Allen (Naugatuck, Conn.) for the lone run of the contest.  The Wolves grabbed a quick 1-0 lead in the top of the first thanks to a run batted in by Kendall Allen.  Farinaccio was fantastic, yielding just one hit in the first five innings and no hits in the last two innings.  Two Corsair runners made it as far as third base and Farinacchio struck out five to improve to 7-5 in the circle.  Edy Crawford gave up just one earned run and three hits for UMass Dartmouth.  Senior Rachael Ushka (Southbury, Conn.) and junior Alexis Resto (Shelton, Conn.) had hits for the Wolves.
 
In game two, Western Connecticut State took a 1-0 lead when Filancia drove home graduate Gretchen Bunovsky (Monroe, Conn.) with a two-out RBI single in the top of the third. The Wolves doubled their lead in the fourth on Resto's 100th career hit, a double to left field, and an RBI single by Ushka, but junior Syndey Menz put the Corsairs on the scoreboard with an RBI single to make it, 2-1. Filancia walked and scored on an error in the fifth inning and Resto doubled and scored on another UMass Dartmouth fielding miscue in the sixth.  Bordenaro gace WestConn two spectacular pitching performances in the twinbill, scattering six hits in first five innings, holding the Corsairs hitless in the sixth and seventh frames, and fanning three to improve to 7-4..