BALTIMORE – The UMBC softball team
(17-21, 1-7 America East) lost two conference games to Stony Brook
(26-9, 7-1 America East) on Saturday afternoon, 10-1 and 19-3, at
the UMBC Softball Stadium.
Freshman catcher Taylor
Hall (Cosby, Va./Cosby) led UMBC with a 4-for-6 effort in
the two games hitting a home run and driving in four
RBIs. Hall now has five home runs on the year and her
.368 batting average ranks second on the team.
The Retrievers lost game one of the Saturday double header
10-1. Stony Brook scored three runs in the first inning
and tacked on another in the top of the third to build a 4-0
lead.
UMBC cut the deficit to three in the bottom half of the inning
when Hall drove in sophomore Jessica
Warner (Huntingtown, Md./Huntingtown) who crossed home
plate for her team-leading 26th run of the
season. Warner reached base with a lead-off walk and
moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by sophomore Caitlin
Chance (Easton, Md./Easton). She then moved to
third on a wild pitch and came home on Hall's single.
UMBC, however, could not get any more runs off Stony Brook's
Allison Cukrov, who allowed only four hits in five innings for her
17th victory of the season.
Freshman Miranda
Clark (Tampa, Fla. H.B. Plant) pitched 3.2 innings but
allowed six earned runs off eight hits to fall to 3-4 on the
season. She also struck out four Seawolves in the
game.
In game two, Stony Brook scored 11 runs in the first inning en
route to a 19-3 win.
Alyssa Hawley, Lauren Malone and Bernadette Tenuto combined to
go 9-for-12 for the Seawolves with eight runs scored and seven
RBIs.
The Retrievers got on the board in the bottom of the third when
Hall hit her fifth homerun of the year to drive in all three of
UMBC's run.
The Retrievers will look to rebound when they face Stony Brook
in the series finale on Sunday with first pitch scheduled for
noon.
