THE BASICS:

PHOTO GALLERY

RESULT: Hartford 10, Central Connecticut 0
LOCATION: Fiondella Field (West Hartford, Conn.)
RECORDS: Hartford (34-14), CCSU (20-31)
WP: Cashman (2-1); LP: Curtin (0-2)

THE LEAD:
The Hartford baseball team rolled off yet another victory, taking a 10-0 victory over Central Connecticut State on Tuesday on Hawk Nation Education Day. A crowd of 577 took in the affair, as the Hawks welcomed students from Batchelder School, Laurel Elementary and the CREC Windsor School to Fiondella Field for the contest.
 
Hartford has now gone 13-2 in its last 15 games, including four straight games scoring in double digits. The Hawks conclude the year at Fiondella Field with a 14-5 record at home.
 
Justin Cashman tossed six shutout innings, allowing four hits and one walk to improve to 2-1 on the season.  John LaRossa added two scoreless frames and Brian Stepniak tossed a scoreless ninth to finish the shutout. Tom Curtin was carded with the loss for CCSU.
 
Chris DelDebbio continued his hot streak in the batter's box, going 3-for-5 with a home run and two RBI for the Hawks, while Ben Bengtson had two hits and scored a pair of runs. T.J. Ward delivered a pair of RBI in the win as well.
 
HOW THEY SCORED:
• Hartford plated a pair of unearned runs in the bottom of the first, as Aaron Wilson and David MacKinnon each swiped a bag then came around to score as the throw to second went into center field for a 2-0 lead.
• The Hawks pushed the lead to 3-0 in the third when DelDebbio lined a shot into the netting in left field for his sixth home run of the season.
• In the fourth, Hartford put up a crooked number with five runs to take an 8-0 lead. After Bengtson singled, Chris Sullivan reached on a wild pitch and Ward doubled inside the third-base bag to plate a pair of runs.
• Later in the inning, DelDebbio delivered a bases-loaded infield single to score Ward for the sixth run of the game.
• Erik Ostberg closed out the scoring in the inning by lacing a single up the middle to plate a pair of runs and push the lead to 8-0.
• Meanwhile, Cashman was rolling, stranding single runners on in the first and the second, then facing the minimum in the third and fourth. He allowed a hit batsman in the fifth, then ended his day by working around a pair of singles to strand two runners and keep it an 8-0 lead.
• The Hawks finished off their scoring with two runs in the seventh, the first on a Nick Campana RBI single that scored Bengtson and the second on an error that plated Campana to make it 10-0.


UP NEXT:
Hartford heads to Kingston, R.I., for a Wednesday afternoon matchup with Rhode Island. First pitch is slated for noon with live stats available on GoRhody.com.