WALTHAM, Mass. -- Senior second baseman Connor Burnham (Harwich) had four RBI, including at least one in each of the three middle innings, as UMass-Lowell used 18 hits and three big innings to record a 14-6 win over Bentley University in Northeast-10 Conference baseball Thursday afternoon at DeFelice Field.

Bentley senior right fielder Chris Hardy (Warwick, R.I./Bishop Hendricken HS) matched Burnham's four RBI, three coming on his seventh home run of the season.

The victory gave the River Hawks a two-game series sweep of the Falcons and was the 15th win in the last 16 games for UMass-Lowell (15-2, 2-0 NE-10). Bentley, which was making its 2011 home debut, dipped to 6-11 overall and 0-2 in the conference.

Bentley struck first, with freshman Sean Keady (Norwood/Norwood HS) leading off the bottom of the first with a walk and scoring on a triple to right center by Hardy.

It stayed 1-0 into the fourth when UMass-Lowell struck for three runs, all scoring after a two-out walk that gave the River Hawks runners on first and second. Sophomore DH Adam Keennan (Lowell) made the free pass hurt as he followed with a two-run triple to right center, giving the visitors the lead Burnham followed with a single, making it a 3-1 game.

UMass-Lowell broke things open with five runs in the fifth and sixth in the sixth. Three of the fifth-inning runs were unearned, and the sixth included a two-run single to left by Burnham.

Junior DH Greg Baggett (East Bridgewater/East Bridgewater HS) had an RBI single for Bentley in the sixth, and the Falcons' four-run seventh featured the three-run blast by Hardy.

UMass-Lowell's 18 hits, off six Bentley pitchers, included three apiece from junior shortstop Cam Kneeland (Rowley) and sophomore DH Jordan Silva (Groveland), who didn't enter the game until the fourth as a pinch-runner. Everyone in the River Hawk starting lineup had at least one hit.

Hardy, who already has 20 RBI this season, ran his hitting streak to 11 games and was one of two Falcons with two hits, with Keady the other.

Sophomore righty Garrett Cole (Bedford, N.H.) earned the win for UMass-Lowell after allowing four hits and two runs (one earned) in six innings of action.

Bentley is scheduled for a doubleheader at Pace University Saturday at noon. The next home game is set for Sunday, a 1 pm meeting with nationally-ranked Franklin Pierce.

At Waltham, Mass.

UMASS-LOWELL 14, BENTLEY 6

UMass-Lowell (15-2, 2-0)              000  356  000  --  14  18  1

Bentley (6-11, 0-2)                          100  001  400  --  6  8  2

UML - Garrett Cole, Bryant Guilmette (7),Tyler Toyfair (9) and Rob Noe; B - Matt Sherman, Nathan Witkowski (5), Andrew Dhionis (6), Greg Ciavarella (6), Jeff Croteau (8), Sam Cummings (9) and Kevin Korwek; W - Cole (2-0); L - Sherman (0-2); HR - B, Chris Hardy (7); 3B - UML, Adam Keenan; B, Hardy; 2B - UML, Sean Burns, Cam Kneeland, Dylan Flynn, Jordan Silva; B, Dante Padovani.