Box Score BALTIMORE – Visiting UAlbany (11-5, 2-0 America East) rallied for seven eighth-inning runs and defeated UMBC, 11-9, the second game of a three-game series at Alumni Field.
The Great Danes sent 11 men to the plate in the frame and scored five times after two men were out.
The comeback spoiled an excellent day at the plate for UMBC (7-11, 0-2) catcher
Tony Krueger (Appleton, Wisc.). The junior hit his first home run in a UMBC uniform, added a single and a double and drove in five runs. Junior outfielder
Justin Taylor (Reston, Va.) reached base four times and scored three runs, while sophomore shortstop
Drew Roberts (Matthews, N.C.) went 2-for-4 with 3 RBI's.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- UMBC struck for two runs in the second inning. Krueger got his day started with a single to center, scoring Logan Doran, who led off the second with a base hit to left. With one out, Drew Roberts' safety to right field plated Taylor, who walked after Logan Doran's hit.
- After Retriever freshman starter Jayden Shertel got through the first three innings unscathed, the Great Danes broke through for three runs in the fourth. Colton Bare came to get the final out of the fourth inning, but the Retrievers trailed, 3-2.
- But UMBC answered in the bottom of the inning. Doran walked, Taylor singled, and Krueger belted a home run to right-center field to put the hosts on top, 5-3.
- Krueger walked with the bases loaded in the fifth to give UMBC a 6-3 advantage.
- Trailing 10-6, UMBC closed to within a run in the eighth. Krueger doubled in the eighth inning as UMBC loaded the bases with none out. Then, Drew Roberts doubled down the left field line, scoring two, but Nolan Charlton was thrown out at the plate. Roberts advanced to third on the throw, and Christian Easley brought him home with a sacrifice fly.
- The Danes added a solo home run in the top of the ninth for the final margin of victory.
The two teams complete the series on Sunday at 1:00 p.m.
