BROCKTON, Mass.--Shawn Egan no-hit UMass-Boston for 7.1 innings as the Keene State College baseball team earned a split in a Little East Conference doubleheader at Campanelli Stadium on Saturday night.  The Beacons took the opener 6-3.  KSC snaps a five game losing streak and is now 7-15 overall, and 2-7 in the LEC.  

KSC got the only run they would need in the first when Nick Vita tripled to center field and scored on Cody Dube's infield single.  Egan meanwhile, was untouchable, retiring the first 11 batters he faced before allowing a walk to Jamill Moquete with two outs in the fourth inning.  

Egan set the Beacons down in order in the fifth and sixth innings, and though an error allowed Jose Pena to reach in the seventh, Egan got out of trouble on a quirky play.  Moquete reached on another KSC error, but Dube, playing at first base, threw Pena out at second, then took the return throw from Tanner Chase to catch Moquete off the bag for an inning ending double play.  

The Owls added single runs in the second, third, seventh and eighth innings.  Brett Dootson was hit by a pitch and scored on Trevor Chapin's double in the second, and Vita walked and came home on a groundout off the bat of Andrew Gummow to make it 3-0.  KSC's fourth run came when Joe Libby reached on an error and came across on Vita's hit.  Chapin made it 5-0 when he walked and scored on Chase's single in the eighth.

The Beacons broke up the no-hitter on a single by Kyle Szatrowski in the bottom of the eighth inning.  UMass-Boston ended the shutout later in the frame when Charlie LaPaglia reached on an error and scored on Nick Brothers' groundout.

Egan finished with eight innings of one-hit ball, striking out four.  Vinnie Mangiagli pitched the final inning and did not allow a hit. Lucas Ilges took the loss for the Beacons, with four runs allowed in 6.1 innings of work.

Dube and Vita each had three hits for KSC.

The situation was reversed in the opener, as Szatrowski no-hit Keene State for six innings before Vita singled up the middle.  Moquete staked the Beacons to an early 1-0 lead with a solo homer to right field, and it was 3-0 in the sixth when Daniel Mantoni led off with a single, and Pena homered, again to right.

KSC got within 3-2 in the top of the seventh with a long ball of their own.  Vita led off the inning with a single, and Gummow hit his second homer of the year to left field.  An error, a bases loaded walk, and a fielder's choice gave UMass-Boston three runs in the eighth inning.  KSC did get one run back in the bottom of the ninth.  Two Beacon errors and a single from Dube loaded the bases with no outs, and after Gummow struck out, Dootson grounded out to third, bringing in Matt Boulay.  UMB reliever Daniel Heefner struck out Austin Marino to end the game.

Julian Haddad started and went 6.1 innings, striking out five and allowing five hits.  Stephen Costello tossed 1.2 innings of relief.  

Keene State returns to the diamond on Tuesday, traveling to Plymouth State for a LEC game that starts at 3:30 p.m.