BALTIMORE-- UMBC baseball fell in both games against UMass Lowell on Sunday to close out the series. The Retrievers fell 13-7 late in game one, and nearly completed a comeback in game two, 6-4. UMBC falls to 6-3, 1-3 AE on the year.

GAME ONE:

The Retrievers would give up a pair of runs in the first but would answer with four of their own in their half. Christian Torres (Miami, Fla.) doubled home a run, with Dmitri Floyd (Dover, Del.) scoring him the next at-bat with a single. Floyd would score just a few batters later on a Nolan Charlton (Atlantic City, N.J.) single. Christian Maceda (Oradell, N.J.) had an RBI groundout to end the inning. 

After a UMass Lowell run in the second, Charlton struck again with an RBI single that scored Floyd to extend the lead. That lead would go away the next half inning after an RBI single and a three-run home run gave the River Hawks a 7-5 lead. The Retrievers would tie the game in the sixth after Dylan Wilkinson (Fairfax, Va.) scored on a passed ball. 

However, the River Hawks put up six runs in the final inning to take game one 13-7. Charlton drove in two runs and was one of four Retrievers with multiple hits. 

GAME TWO:

The finale got off to a quick start behind solid pitching from both starters as there was just one hit between the two teams through three innings. UMass Lowell would strike first with three runs in the third off a single and two-run home run. They would add another in the fifth to take an early 4-0 lead. 

UMBC got on the board with their first hit of the game coming on a solo home run from Ryan Brown (Hagerstown, Md./St. James) on the first pitch of the fifth. UMass Lowell would answer with a home run in the sixth to make it 5-1, but the Retrievers got that back on an Ian Diaz (Philadelphia, Pa.) single. 

The Retrievers trailed 6-3 heading to the ninth. Jack Ryan (Bethesda, Md./Walt Whitman) made it 6-4 with a sacrifice fly, but the Retrievers would strand the winning run on base in a 6-4 loss. 

Nolan Charlton was the lone Retriever with multiple hits.

UMBC will head to Maine next Saturday and Sunday, March 27-28 for a four-game series in Orono.