BABSON PARK, Mass.—First-year Nick Radcliffe (Randolph, Mass.) allowed just one run on two hits over seven innings and sophomore Todd Ezold (Westfield, Mass.) drove in three runs as visiting UMass-Boston topped Babson College 4-1 in non-conference baseball action on Thursday afternoon at Govoni Field.

The Beacons, which snapped a three-game losing streak, move to 10-11 overall while Babson falls to 12-11 with the loss.

Radcliffe struck out two and walked a pair on the way to his first collegiate win while junior Matt Dziok (Southampton, Mass.) gave up just one hit over the final two innings to earn his second save of the season for UMass-Boston. First-year Hunter Silva (Bourne, Mass.) took the loss for Babson, giving up one earned run on three hits over five innings, while striking out two and walking four. Classmate Brody Loughlin (Rockland, Mass.) tossed four shutout innings in relief, striking out three and allowing just three singles.

The two teams traded runs on sacrifice flies in the first, beginning when Beacons' Ezold lofted a fly ball to center to score junior Jose Pena (Boston, Mass.) in the visitors' half. Babson then answered when senior Trevor Boyce (Canton, Mass.) led off the bottom half of the frame with a walk, stole both second and third, and scored on a sac fly to center by senior Chris Kucher (Westwood, Mass.).

UMass-Boston snapped the 1-1 tie with three runs in the top of the fifth, thanks to a pair of walks, a hit batsmen, and an error. First-year Adam Gutierrez (Springfield, Mass.) scored the go-ahead run on a bases-loaded wild pitch, and Ezold followed with a two-run single to shallow left, scoring Pena and sophomore Bryan Failla (Torrington, Conn.),  to give the Beacons a 4-1 lead.

After pitching out of a first-and-second jam in the second and then hitting the leadoff batter in the third, Radcliffe settled down to retire 13 straight until a two-out double by sophomore Joe Zanca (Braintree, Mass.) in the seventh. Zanca eventually moved to third on a wild pitch, but Radcliffe stranded him there by inducing an inning-ending groundout.

The Beavers threatened again in the ninth as Kucher extended his hitting streak to nine games with a one-out single to left field. Two batters later, sophomore Sean MacPhee (Framingham, Mass.) drew a two-out walk before Dziok thwarted the rally with a game-ending groundout to first.

Both teams return to conference action this weekend as Babson opens a three-game series with Clark on Friday in Worcester at 3:30pm, while UMass-Boston hosts Eastern Connecticut State in a doubleheader on Saturday afternoon starting at 1:00pm.