REGIONAL DIGEST Yard Goats continue to roll on road

Aaron Schunk had four hits, including a run-scoring double in a five-run seventh, to lead the Hartford Yard Goats to a 7-3 Eastern League win at the Richmond Flying Squirrels on Friday night in Richmond, Va. Hartford (27-16) is now 10-2 on its current trip through Bowie, Md., and Richmond. Brenton Doyle had two hits, a run and an RBI, and Michael Toglia a hit and two RBI for the Yard Goats. Nick Bush (4-2) went seven innings for the win. Central stays alive in NEC tourney: The Central Connecticut State baseball team rallied from a four-run deficit, scoring eight runs in the final two innings, and defeated Fairleigh Dickinson 10-6 in a Northeast Conference Tournament elimination game at Dodd Stadium. The Blue Devils will play Saturday at noon against the winner of Friday’s second game between Bryant and LIU, which was suspended after the 11th inning with the score tied 3-3. That game resumes at 11 a.m. Joe Rios delivered what proved to be the game-winning hit for CCSU (29-17) with an eighth-inning grand slam.

Eastern softball drops opener: Taylor Murdo’s two-run home run in the eighth inning off Morgan Bolduk lifted the Trine University softball team to a 4-2 win over Eastern Connecticut State in an opening game in the Division III championship at Salem, Va. The game began on Thursday and was suspended in the sixth inning with the score tied 2-2. The No. 3 seeded Warriors (43-6) will look to stay alive in the eight-team, double elimination tournament against Millikin University on Saturday at 11:30 a.m.