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VESTAL, N.Y. - All five of UMBC's goal scorers put up multi-goal games as the Retrievers defeated the Binghamton Bearcats, 16-10, on Saturday afternoon. The team was led by freshman Dymin Gerow (Baltimore, Md./Episcopal) and sophomore Claire Bockstie (Forest Hill, Md./Maryvale Preparatory), who each scored four.

FOR THE RECORD
UMBC evens out its record to 3-3 overall and 2-2 in America East play. Binghamton falls to 1-3 overall and in conference play. 

STRAIGHT FACTS

Binghamton scored the first goal of the game with 25 minutes on the clock before UMBC rattled off five-straight.

Senior Olivia Docal (Glenwood, Md./Our Lady of Good Counsel) put the Retrievers on the board off an assist from Lily Kennedy (Marriottsville, Md./Marriotts Ridge) before graduate student Katie Schluederberg (Elkridge, Md./Howard/Penn State) netted her first of the run at the 18:44 mark to give UMBC the 2-1 lead.

Bockstie and Gerow each scored on a free-position attempt before Schluederberg rounded out the scoring run for UMBC to give the Retrievers the 5-1 lead with 14:01 to play in the first half.

The teams traded goals, including a man-up opportunity for sophomore Megan Halczuk (Fawn Grove, Pa.) from sophomore Rachel Ridgley (Owings Mills, Md./Franklin) to help give UMBC the 6-3 lead.

Gerow scored back-to-back goals followed by Bockstie's second of the day to help put the Retrievers up, 9-3, with 5:27 to play in the first half.

The Bearcats added another goal a minute later but Docal and Bockstie put up two more for UMBC to give them the 11-4 lead heading into halftime.

Binghamton scored the first goal of the second half at the 18:44 mark to cut UMBC's lead to six, 11-5, but Bockstie and Halczuk teamed up just 40 seconds later to put the Retrievers back in front by seven.

Docal scored her third of the day at the 13:23 mark in the period, but Binghamton scored back-to-back goals for the first time on the day to cut UMBC's lead down to 13-7 with 10:50 to play.

The Retrievers scored three straight, starting with Gerow's career-high fourth goal of the game on an eight-meter shot before Bockstie scored her fourth for the day to give UMBC the 15-7 lead with 8:12 to play.

Halczuk, off the pass from Bocksite again, joined the hat trick club on the afternoon as she put the Retrievers up, 16-7, with 7:42 on the clock, but the Bearcats ended the scoring run with three-straight goals to end the game.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS

11 - the number of draw controls Halczuk controlled during the game; she is now 10th in program history for draw controls in a season with 50. Freshman Kennedy Evans (Kennett Square, Pa.) controlled a career-high nine as the two combined for 20 of UMBC's 23 draw controls.

8 - the number of saves Lexi Roberts (Baldwin, Md./Fallston/Army West Point) made on the day.

7 - the number of assists the team had on the day, tying a game-high on the season. Bockstie and Kennedy led the team with two each.

ONTO THE NEXT ONE

UMBC will return back to UMBC Stadium on Saturday, April 3 to take on the UMass Lowell River Hawks at 1:30 p.m. The game will be part of a doubleheader with the men's lacrosse team, who will take on Vermont at 11 a.m.