UNION, N.J. - Freshman DH Evin Sullivan keyed a six-run seventh inning with a grand slam and surging Binghamton baseball (12-21, 8-9 America East) secured its third straight series win with a 6-3 victory over host NJIT (16-17, 10-7 AE) Saturday afternoon at Jim Hynes Stadium. The win was BU's seventh in the last nine conference games and moved them to within two games of the Highlanders atop Division "B."

Trailing 3-0 after six innings despite an abundance of hits, BU capitalized in the seventh, batting around and plating six runs on five hits. The first four hitters all reached before Sullivan greeted the NJIT reliever by jumping on the first pitch and sending it screaming over the left field wall for his fourth home run of the spring and first collegiate grand slam. The bomb gave BU a 5-3 lead and they added a final run on a two-out RBI single from senior shortstop Jake Evans. 

Meanwhile, sophomore reliever John Lumpinski (W) was brilliant, fanning 10 NJIT batters in four shutout innings. Lumpinski allowed just two hits and didn't walk a batter, earning his first win as a Bearcat. Lumpinski took over for sophomore starter Gabe Driscoll, who struck out eight in his 5.0 innings. The two combined to set a school record for team strikeouts in a game (18). 

Lumpinski struck out the side in the sixth, eighth and ninth and fanned one in the seventh. He faced 14 batters and struck out 10 of them. 

Sullivan wound up 3-for-5 with the grand slam and four RBI. Evans went 2-for-4 with an RBI and freshmen Logan Haskell and Devan Bade and senior Colin Mason had two hits apiece.  

The teams finish up the weekend series Sunday with junior Ryan Bryggman (3-3, 4.81 ERA) on the hill.