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WEST HARTFORD, Conn. - The Hartford baseball team dropped its sixth straight game when it fell to Connecticut on Tuesday, 11-0. The Hawks got four hits, including two from junior Simon Kudernatsch, while committing four errors which led to six unearned runs.

Freshman Kevin Veilleux was charged with the loss, dropping his record to 0-4. Robert Van Woert picked up the victory for the Huskies, improving his mark to 2-0.

Veilleux lasted four innings as UConn jumped out to an 8-0 lead. However, only four of those runs were charged to the freshman hurler, as two errors by freshman shortstop Brian Estevez extended the Huskies' first and fourth inning.

Meanwhile, the Hawks got three of their four hits over the first four innings, but freshman James Alfonso's leadoff single in the second went for naught when Hunter grounded into a double play. The Hawks also could not pick up Kudernatsch after his leadoff double and one-out steal of third in the fourth inning.

The Hawks got strong performances out of the bullpen on Tuesday, as freshmen Ryan Lukach, Charlie Moran and Hunter combined to allow just one earned run over the game's final five innings. Lukach, who followed Veilleux, struck out four over 3.1 innings, allowing just one earned run on a home run by John Sulzicki in the seventh inning.

Hartford has now scored one or zero runs in four of its last five games since getting its first victory of the season, 8-5 in the season finale at Delaware State. The Hawks broke out for 14 runs in the first game of Sunday's doubleheader at Yale, but managed a combined one run in the three other games with the Bulldogs over the weekend.

With his double in the fourth and single in the sixth inning, Kudernatsch improved his batting average to .303 on the season. He is now leading the team in that category, and is batting .500 (9-for-18) over the Hawks' last five games. No other Hawk sports an average higher than .267 over that span.

Hartford will return to action on Thursday when it hosts the Massachusetts Minutemen in a single game starting at 3:00 p.m. Tickets are still available, and can be purchased by calling 860-768-HAWK or by visiting the Malcolm and Brenda Berman Athletics Box Office.