Doubleheader sweep

Baseball
Eli Rosenswaike

The Massachusetts baseball team swept a doubleheader with Army on Sunday night for its first two wins of the season.

The Minutemen improve to 2-3, and will finish the series at 3 p.m., on Monday afternoon at the New York Yankees Spring Training Complex in Tampa, Fla.

In game one, UMass was led by the pitching from Mitchell and Mitchell for a 1-0 win in eight innings (as part of the doubleheader, game one was a regulation of seven innings). Starter Mitchell Clegg lasted 5.1 innings, allowing no runs on three hits. Mitchell Eilenberg relieved him, going 2.2 innings of shutout ball for the win.

The winning run for the Minutemen was delivered by Kyle Multner, who drive in Ryan Franczek on an RBI single. On the play, Adam Tempesta was thrown out at the plate for the third out. The run was unearned thanks to an error by the first baseman on Army.

In game No. 2, UMass pounced on Army pitching, winning 7-1. The Minutemen were led at the plate by outfielders Brian Baudinet (3-4, 1 run and 1 RBI) and Mike Donato (3-4, 1 run, 3 RBI). Multner also had two hits and an RBI.

But the story of the game was the stellar pitching by sophomore Bryan Leigh. In eight innings of work, Leigh allowed just one hit, but he was charged with an unearned run in the fifth inning. Leigh struck out four and walked two.