BALTIMORE – With six seniors playing
for the final time at their home stadium, the UMBC softball team
(19-31, 1-17 AE) lost both games of a season ending doubleheader
against America East rival Boston University (37-14, 15-3 AE),
Saturday afternoon at the UMBC Softball Stadium. After
the second game of yesterday's doubleheader was moved to Sunday due
to rain, the Terries took game one, 9-4, and then came back and
swept the Retrievers with a 10-1 win in game two to clinch the
conference regular season championship.
Sophomore Jessica
Warner (Huntingtown, Md./Huntingtown) went 4-for-7 in the
two games against BU, hitting her team-best 11th homerun of the
year in game one.
Erin Schuppert (7-6) earned the win in game one for the Terriers
despite giving up four runs on two hits and only making it through
four innings. Whitney Tuthill once again came into the game in
relief and for the second straight day shut down the Retrievers to
pick up her second save of the year.
Senior Katie
Ferguson (North East, Md./North East/Cecil CC) took the
loss for the Retrievers after yielding seven runs on seven hits
over two innings of work. Junior Heather
Brown (Pasadena, Md./North East) came in and pitched five
innings for UMBC, surrendering two runs but striking out two
batters and forcing 13 groundouts.
The visitors got going quickly in the opening game, plating five
runs as the first six batters all reached base in the first
inning. Ferguson did get out of a jam in the inning,
preventing further damage by stranding two runners on
base. BU tacked on two more runs in the top of the
second though to push its lead to 7-0.
UMBC struck back in the bottom half of inning as senior Angela
Yannone (Pasadena, Md./Chesapeake) led off with a double
to left and came in to score on a fielder's choice.
Brown then sent Boston U. down in order in the top of the third
and the Retrievers took advantage, plating three runs in the bottom
half of the frame to cut the gap to three, 7-4. Warner
led off the inning with a homer to left and two batters later
freshman Taylor
Hall (Cosby, Va./Cosby) matched her teammate with her own
round-tripper. Ferguson then singled and scored as
Yannone hit her second double of the day.
The Terriers stunted the rally in the top of the fourth with a
single run and added another in the sixth to close out the
scoring.
Game two began as a pitchers' dual as BU led only 2-0 after four
innings. In the fifth, however, the Terriers put five on
the board and added three more in the sixth to force the shorten
game.
Hall went 2-for-3 for the Retrievers lining her team-leading
15th double of the season to start off the fifth inning.
Freshman Miranda
Clark (Tampa, Fla./H.B. Plant) (3-5) was charged with the
loss after giving up five earned runs in 4.1 innings in the
circle.
Holli Floetker (17-3) earned her 17th win of the season after
surrendering just one run while scattering five hits in a five
inning outing for BU.
