MANCHESTER, N.H. – No. 13 Southern New Hampshire University and the University of New Haven split a Northeast-10 baseball doubleheader Saturday afternoon at Penmen Field.  The Chargers blanked the Penmen 5-0 in game one before the hosts turned the tables with a 6-1 win in the nightcap.  The Penmen are now 20-8 and 6-5 in NE-10 play, while New Haven is 16-6 and 9-2 in the league.

New Haven staked itself to a 1-0 lead in the third of game two, but the Penmen tied the game in the bottom of the fourth as Jon Minucci (Madison, Conn.) was hit by a pitch with one out.  After moving to second on a wild pitch and third on a groundout, Minucci scored on a passed ball to tie the game.

Southern New Hampshire tacked on two runs in the fifth and three more in the seventh.  In the fifth, a Brendan O'Brien (East Bridgewater, Mass.) double down the left field line plated Zach Goldstein (Merrick, N.Y.), while O'Brien, after stealing third, scored on a wild pitch.  In the seventh, an Andrew Pezzuto (Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.) single scored Goldstein, while a two-run double to right by Matt Boulter (Wrentham, Mass.) plated O'Brien and Pezzuto.

O'Brien led the Penmen with a pair of hits in the nightcap, while the Chargers mustered just a pair of hits in the nightcap, a single to lead off the game by Stephen Clout and a Brendon O'Reilly single in the third.  Freshman Joe McCarthy (Nashua, N.H.) picked up his first collegiate win, allowing just the two hits in six innings of work and one unearned run while striking out seven.  After Ian Searles (Wareham, Mass.) faced two batters in the seventh, Alex Powers (Brewster, Mass.) worked the final three innings for his fourth save of the season, striking out six.

In the opener, the Penmen bats were stymied by southpaw Pat Simone, who upped his record to 4-0 with his eight inning, three hit performance, striking out 11 against a pair of walks.  The Chargers scored twice in the first on a two-run single to shallow left by Andrew Johnson, then added single runs in the third, sixth and eighth innings. Riley Palmer (Goffstown, N.H.) had three of SNHU's five hits in the opener.

David Gibson (Hanover, Mass.) took the loss for SNHU, allowing three runs in 2.2 innings of work while fanning six.  John Pickowicz (Hill, N.H.) allowed three hits and two runs (one earned) in 6.1 innings of relief, notching six strikeouts.

Southern New Hampshire returns to action Sunday when it hosts Southern Connecticut State University in a noon Northeast-10 doubleheader at Penmen Field.