Uconn baseball routs Butler to complete road sweep

Uconn broke open a close game with a nine-run seventh inning, highlighted by Casey Dana’s grand slam, on the way to a 17-4 victory over Butler in a Big East baseball game Sunday afternoon in Indianapolis. The 15th-ranked Huskies (37-8, 11-1) swept the three-game weekend series against Butler (18-26-1, 2-9-1).

Dana’s home run was his 10th of the season for Uconn, which has won six in a row. He went 9 for 13 in the series with nine RBIS, and this coming after the right fielder needed 26 stitches in his left arm on Tuesday afternoon. Kevin Ferrer recorded his second-straight multihit game with his first home run of the season in the sixth and a two-run double in the seventh.

Enzo Stefanoni earned his sixth win of the season, giving up one earned run and striking out four in5 ⅔ innings. Devin Kirby pitched a career-high 2 ⅓ shutout innings allowing no hits, no walks, one hit batter and striking out four.

The Huskies return home to face Creighton next weekend at Elliot Ballpark beginning Friday at 6 p.m.

Yard Goats win in 10th:

Infielder Hunter Stovall drove in Niko Decolati with a single in the top of the 10th inning to lift the Hartford Yard Goats to a 3-2 victory over the Senators at FNB Field in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Hartford won four of six games on the road trip to claim its first road series victory of the season. Stoval, Ezequiel Tovar and Kyle Datres each had two hits.

Dugan Darnell retired all six batters faced to record his first Double-a win, and Will Gaddis struck out two of three batters in the 10th to earn his first save.

The game had 2:40 worth of rain delays. It was delayed 1:34 from the original starting time and then had a 1:06 delay in the top of the seventh inning.

The Yard Goats return home on Tuesday night to host the Binghamton Rumble Ponies.

The Yard Goats scored the first run in the fourth inning off Harrisburg starter Evan Lee. Ezequiel Tovar started the inning with his second triple in two nights and scored on a sacrifice fly to make it 1-0. The Senators tied tied it in the fifth inning as Dondrei Hubbard homered off Yard Goats starter reliever Fineas Del Bonta-smith.