VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS: Game 1 | Game 2

BALTIMORE -- Freshman Zoe Russell (Roxboro, N.C.) blasted the first pitch of the bottom of the seventh over the fence in center field to give the UMBC Softball team an 8-7 win over Lafayette to complete a sweep on Friday.

The Retrievers took the first game of the day, 8-1, before Russell's heroics gave them the second game and pushed their win-streak to 10. 

Kya Matter (Dalmatia, Pa.) picked up the win in both games to improve to 7-1 on the season. She pitched a complete-game for the win in game one, before pitching the final 1.2 innings in relief in game two.

UMBC (12-4) had 13 different players pick up hits on the day as the pounded out a total of 25 overall. 

HOW IT HAPPENED IN GAME ONE: 

• UMBC got on the board in the second when Sierra Pierce (Youngstown, Ohio) and Anna Lonchar (Bristow, Va.) had back-to-back hits to lead-off the inning, and eventually Meghan Dempsey (Collegville, Pa.) drove in a Pierce with a bases loaded walk.
• Lafayette (5-12) used a two-out walk followed by a double to tie the game in the top of the third, but Matter got a strikeout to strand the runner at second and keep it tied
• Dempsey hit a one-out double in the fourth and moved to second on a Jaeydn McKeon single. Dempsey would then score on a Courtney Coppersmith (York, Pa.) double to make it 2-1.
• Karly Keating (Orlando, Fla.) then laid down a perfect squeeze bunt for a hit that scored McKeon and made it 3-1
• After Keating stole second, Logan Hawker (Mechanicsville, Va.) drove in her and Coppersmith with a two-run single up the middle to make it 5-1
• Lonchar added a two-out RBI single to make it 6-1 in the fourth 
• After an error allowed Lonchar to score and make it 7-1, Ashley Della Guardia (Phoenixville, Pa.) scored on a passed ball to push the lead to 8-1.
• The score would reamin 8-1 the rest of the way as Matter went all seven innings, striking out 13, walking three and allowing just two hits

HOW IT HAPPENED IN GAME TWO: 

• Lafayette took a 1-0 lead just three batters into the game, but Madie Leach (Erie, Colo.) induced a pair of groundouts to limit the damage
• Coppersmith hit a leadoff single and Keating followed with another bunt single to put the first two on in the first
• A pair of fielders choice outs left the Retrievers with Keating at third and two outs, but Casey Turner (Baltimore, Md.) ripped an RBI double to tie the game at one.
• Russell followed with an RBI single to give UMBC  a 2-1 lead
• It stayed 2-1 until the third when Keating hit a lead-off double and and moved to third on an error. She would then score on a fielders choice when she just beat the throw from shortstop.
• Turner then smashed a three-run homer to left to push the lead to 6-1.
• It remained 6-1 until the top of the sixth when the Leopards took advantage of UMBC errors to plate six runs (five unearned) and take a 7-6.
• Julia Colton (Elkridge, Md.), Coppersmith and Keating each got a hit to load the bases with no outs in the bottom of the sixth, and Colton would score on a Shanel Stott (Cumberland, Md.) sac fly to tie it up at seven.
• Matter worked a perfect top of the seventh before Russell ended the game in the bottom half.

Russell went 3-for-4, while Turner went 2-for-4 with four RBI. Keating finished the day with five hits.

UMBC faces Quinnipiac tomorrow at 10 a.m. for Day 2 of the UMBC Spring Invite.