VESTAL, N.Y. - Surging Binghamton baseball (10-15, 6-0 America East) swept a twinbill from visiting Albany (8-16, 1-5 AE), winning 9-4 and 8-6 Saturday at Varsity Field. The Bearcats have won eight of their last 10 games and at 6-0, are off to the program's best conference start in 15 years of America East membership.

In the opener, sophomore starter Jacob Wloczewski (W, 2-0) worked around high wind, sideways rain and an 18-minute delay in the third inning and BU backed him up with a 15-hit attack. The Bearcats snapped a 2-2 tie with three runs in the third inning and then added two runs in each of the sixth and seventh frames. Albany tallied twice in the ninth to complete the scoring.

Sophomore center fielder CJ Krowiak went 4-for-4 with two RBI and three runs scored and senior infielders David Schanz and Reed Gamache each drove in a pair. Junior left fielder Eddie Posavec had two hits and an RBI and sophomore shortstop Paul Rufo and second-year right fielder Chris McGee collected two hits apiece.

Wloczewski went 7.0 innings - six of them scoreless - and limited the Great Danes to four hits and two runs. He outdueled MLB prospect Stephen Woods (L, 3-2), who was pulled after four innings. Wloczewski is 2-0 with a 1.08 ERA in four outings this spring.

In Game 2, BU jumped out to an 8-1 lead before Albany scored runs in each of the last five innings to tighten the final score. The Great Danes outhit BU 11-8 but committed four errors and BU's three pitchers limited the damage in each of the scoring innings to preserve the win. Senior Mike Bunal (W, 2-3) went 4.0 innings and scattered six hits and four runs.

Krowiak completed his six-hit day with a 2-for-4, 3 RBI showing. The big blow was a two-out, two-run triple to the wall in right field in the bottom of the second inning. In conference play, Krowiak is hitting .462 and has an on-base percentage of .517.

Rufo had a bases-clearing double to the wall in right center in the third inning, when the Bearcats scored five runs to build an 8-1 cushion.

Junior first baseman Brendan Skidmore went 2-for-3 with an RBI. He also had two nice short-hop pickups at first base to record key outs on defense. Skidmore is hitting .373 in his last 19 games and has 10 RBI in his last seven. He leads the Bearcats with 21 RBI this spring.   

Binghamton next plays a three-game series at UMass Lowell next Saturday (DH) and Sunday.