Bakken helps Avery Point to doubleheader sweep

Groton — Waterford's Collin Bakken pitched a five-hitter in the opener as the Avery Point baseball team swept Morris Community College in a doubleheader on Sunday.

Avery Point (11-11) reached the .500 mark for the first time this season, winning the opener 5-0 and the second game 5-4 on Brayden Cooney's RBI single in the bottom of the eighth inning.

Bakken struck out nine with one walk. Jeremy Nunes singled home a run in the first inning and Montville's Seamus Barry, Aidan Brennan of New London and Chris Oliwa had RBIs in a four-run third in Game 1. Omar Montalvo was 3-for-5, Barry singled and doubled and Waterford's Alex Petchark scored twice in Game 2. In other games: • Mitchell College improved to 7-1 in the New England Collegiate Conference with a doubleheader sweep of Becker, winning the opener 13-2 and Game 2 9-4.

Ryan Solimine (5-1) pitched six innings for the win in the opener, allowing three hits and an unearned run with six strikeouts and a walk.

Ledyard's Bryce Bedard (3-2) pitched 3.2 hitless innings in relief for the win in Game 2. Eric Marriott and Montville's Dougie DelaCruz had four hits each on the day for Mitchell (21-6).

• Christian Fedko drove in three runs as UConn beat Memphis 4-2 in an American Athletic Conference game.

Fedko, who had two hits, singled home a pair of runs in the top of the eighth inning to break a 2-2 tie. CJ Dandeneau earned the win with two innings of one-hit relief for the Huskies (23-13, 7-5).

Women's tennis

• Trinity beat Connecticut College 7-2 in a New England Small College Athletic Conference match. Emily Migliorini of Conn (8-8) won at No. 1 singles and teamed with Brinley Bartlett to win at No. 3 doubles.

Women's track

• Connecticut College won four events and set four schools record on Saturday at its own Silfen Invitational.

Shannon Kennedy won the heptathlon with a school-record 42,262 points, Koko Mensah won the shot with a school-record put of 47-3 and Tarvis Hintlian won the steeplechase in a time of 11:28.78, taking the lead in the final straightaway.

The fourth win was the 4x800 relay team of Caroline Stevenson, Elizabeth Hensley, Meredith Cronin and Hintlian in a time of 9:52.08. Emily Senatore was second in the discus (140-3) and had a school-record throw of 152-11 in the hammer throw. And Conn's 4x100 team of Haley Vanty, Erin Fitzpatrick, Sarah Clark and Ivana Lamptey finished in a school-record time of 49.62.

Men's track

• Danny Aschale of Connecticut College won the 5,000-meter run on Saturday at Conn's Silfen Invitational.

Aschale's winning time was 14:40.92 and teammate Ben Vazquez had a pair of second-place finishes, running the 1,500 in 3:56.38 and anchoring the 4x800 relay team with Jacob Bril-Weil, Josh Simensky and Spencer Crough at 7:59.45. Conn, which finished tied with sixth with 58.50 points, got a third from Billy Fleurima in the high jump (5-10.75) and a fourth from Mike D'Onofrio in the javelin (157-1).

Road racing

• Sam Whittaker of Salem won the Salem 5K Road Race on Saturday, finishing in a time of 16:42.

Linda Spooner of Sturbridge, Mass., was the top women's finisher, coming in eighth in 20:32.

Also finishing in the top 10 were Fisher Macklin of Salem (17:54), Matthew Kung of Salem (18:41), John Gadbois of Salem (19:35), Kevin Glenn of Bolton (19:54), Ned Kennedy of Vernon (20:07), David Loughran of Colchester (20:15), Josh Spooner of Sturbridge, Mass., (20:44) and Dave Crowley of Uncasville (20:57).

Lacrosse

• Mystic Mayhem Boys U10 Invitational — July 13-14, Poquonnock Plains Park, Groton. Fee: $1,000 per team, with $500 due at registration (deposit deadline is June 1). Contact: all.lacrossect@gmail.com, Mark at (860) 514-7706, Shawn at (860) 9085950.