QUEENS, N.Y. – The No. 12-ranked Southern New Hampshire University baseball team swept a non-conference twinbill from Queens (N.Y.) College by scores of 13-3 and 4-0 Saturday afternoon in a pair of seven-inning contests.  The wins lift the Penmen to 12-3, while the Knights are now 1-7 on the season.

In the opener, Jon Minucci (Madison, Conn.) went 2-4 with five RBI, including a two-run home run as part of a six-run sixth inning.  He also delivered a three-run double in the fourth.  Andrew Pezzuto (Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.) was 2-3 with three stolen bases, while Matt Boulter (Wrentham, Mass.) and Andy Lalli (Lakeville, Mass.) each went 2-3 with two RBI.  Al Stanton (Sandwich, Mass.) was 3-4 with an RBI.

Southern New Hampshire scored in five of seven innings of the first game, grabbing a run in the first, two in the second and three in the fourth to build a 6-0 lead.  After a Knight run in the fourth, the Penmen tacked on a run in the fifth before the six-run outburst in the sixth.

Tyler Gauthier (Lynn, Mass.) went five innings on the mound for the Penmen and allowed four hits and one run while fanning six.  Ian Searles (Wareham, Mass.) worked a 1-2-3 sixth before Stephen Fortuna (Metuchen, N.J.) allowed a pair of runs in the seventh.

In the nightcap, SNHU grabbed a run in the third, two in the sixth and one in the seventh.  In the third, with runners on first and third, Brendan O'Brien (East Bridgewater, Mass.) scored from third when the Knight first baseman couldn't handle a pickoff attempt of Pezzuto at first.  In the sixth, Riley Palmer (Goffstown, N.H.) belted a two-run home run that also plated Minucci, while in the seventh, a Pezzuto single plated Zach Goldstein (Merrick, N.Y.).

Junior Mendez (Patchogue, N.Y.) tossed a complete-game shutout, allowing just three hits and fanning nine with one walk.  Goldstein and Pezzuto had two hits apiece for the Penmen, with Pezzuto extending his hit streak to 14 games, Pezzuto also added three more stolen bases in the nightcap. O'Brien extended his hit streak to nine with a third-inning double.

The same two teams meet for a doubleheader Sunday at noon.