WEST HARTFORD, Conn. - The Hartford baseball team managed just 11 hits over two games on Sunday as they fell in both ends of  a doubleheader with Albany, 8-0 and 2-0. David Kubiak earned the victory in Game One for Albany, while Steve Sobocinski dropped to 1-5 with the loss. Ryan White was the victor in Game Two, with Mike Thatcher taking his first loss, dropping to 3-1. Greg Lutton picked up his first save for the Great Danes.

Albany put Game One away early, scoring four runs in the first inning and one in the second. The Great Danes were powered by Ralph Keppler, whose slicing three-run home run to right field capped the scoring in the first inning.

Hartford's best scoring opportunity in the first game came in the second inning. Junior Mike Aldrich led off with a sharp single through the right side of the infield. He moved up to second base on a wild pitch from Kubiak. With one out, Aldrich advanced another ninety feet on Rodger Wilmot's groundout to second base. That would be as far as he would advance, though, as Kubiak induced a strikeout to end the inning.

Only once did the Hawks get more than one runner on base in the first game. With two outs in the fifth, freshman Erik Figueredo knocked a single back through the middle. Sophomore Andrew Siano followed with a single of his own, but that was all the Hawks could muster.

Game Two was a pitchers' duel for the first four innings, with Thatcher equaling White pitch for pitch. In the fifth, Jeff Welsh reached on a throwing error by third baseman Victor Santana. The Danes followed with three straight singles, scoring Welsh and Nolan Gaige. With the bases loaded and one out, Thatcher was pulled in favor of freshman Brian Rice. Rice induced a pop up and struck out Keppler to end the inning.

Rice went the rest of the way, shutting down the Danes for just four hits and no runs in his 4.2 innings of work.

Hartford was once again unable to push across a run in Game Two, although they did have chances. In the seventh inning, junior Andy Drexel led the inning off by ripping a double down the right field line. He was stranded right there, though, as a grounder to third and two fly balls to center ended the frame. In the eighth, Figueredo and pinch hitter Jason Freethey each knocked one-out singles. After a strikeout, senior Mike Amendola loaded the bases by beating out an infield single up the middle. Drexel smashed the first pitch he saw, but right to the center fielder, stranding the runners.

Finally, in the ninth inning, Hartford got two runners on with two outs before Lutton struck out Figueredo to end the game and seal the victory.

Hartford will look to get back in the win column on Monday when they wrap up their three-game series with the Danes. First pitch for the game, pushed to Monday due to the rain outs on Saturday, will be at 1 p.m.