WALTHAM, Mass. - Led by seven shutdown innings by senior righty Steve Roche (Worcester, Mass.) baseball earned their third straight win as they defeated Lasell College by the final of 8-4 Sunday afternoon in a non-conference game.

With the victory, the Beacons improved to 13-11 on the year, while the host Lasers fell to 13-15.

During his seven innings of work, Roche allowed just one run on four hits and struck out five to improve to 2-2 on the year.  Joseph Dewey (Pittsfield, Mass.) and Yuta Ito (Kobe, Japan) each recorded an inning of work to carry the Beacons to the non-conference win.

Junior Daniel Bonito (Swampscott, Mass.) paced the Beacons with two hits, two RBI's and a run scored, while junior Luke Nagle (Pembroke, Mass.) went 2-for-3 with a double. Freshman Josh Lopez (New Haven, Conn.) went 2-for-3 with one ribbie, as four other Beacons registered hits for the visitors.

Brandon Valentin led the Lasers at the plate, crushing his first career home run to go along with two RBI's. McKenzie drove in a third run for the Lasers with a double, while Sammarco, Gervais, and freshmen Jesse Tejero and Dom Mascolo each swung into a base hit.

The Beacons were first to get on the board in the top of the third, highlighted by back-to-back doubles to lead off the inning. Nagle and sophomore Anthony Searles (Shelton, Conn.) roped a double apiece to give the visitors the one-up advantage, where UMB then packed in three more runs.

After Lopez singled to drive in Searles in the fourth, Valentin took the plate for the Lasers and cracked a long shot to left center for his first career homer. Down 8-1 in the Lasers' last chance at bat, Valentin smacked a double to drive in Tejero. Lasell continued to rally in the final plays of the game, as McKenzie grounded out to second base to plate a third run. Valentin crossed home plate on a wild pitch by the Beacons to give the Lasers four, but a final strikeout gave the Beacons the 8-4 victory.

Romano suffered the loss on the hill for the Lasers, pitching 2.2 innings with three hits and two earned runs.

Baseball returns to action on Tuesday when they host Southern Maine on Tuesday at 3 p.m. at Campanelli Stadium.

Information for this release provided by Lasell College Sports Information Department