VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS: Game 1 | Game 2 

BALTIMORE - Pitcher/outfielder Courtney Coppersmith (York, Pa.) homered at the plate in game one, and then became the UMBC All-Time Strikeout Leader in the second game as the UMBC Softball team swept a doubleheader against  visiting Stony Brook on Wednesday. Her three-run homer in the third inning of game one put the Retrievers up for good in a 5-1 win, before she pitched a 10-strikout complete game shutout in a 3-0 win in the second game. The games were a rematch of the 2019 and 2021 America East Championships, both won by UMBC.

How it Happened in Game 1:

• Stony Brook (20-12, 1-3 AE) got on the board first in the second inning to go up 1-0
• With two outs in the bottom of the third, Karly Keating (Orlando, Fla.) laid down a beautiful bunt single and that was followed by Logan Hawker (Mechanicsville, Va.) drawing a full-count walk to put two on. Coppersmith then blasted the first pitch she saw over the right field fence to put the UMBC (21-6, 6-2 AE) up 3-1.
• A pair of errors and a single loaded the bases in the top of the fourth, but Kya Matter (Dalmatia, Pa.) got a strikeout to escape the threat. 
• The Seawolves again threatened in the sixth after the first two batters of the inning walked, but Matter got a popped up bunt, a flyout and a strikeout to once again avert any damage.
• In the bottom of the sixth, Sierra Pierce (Youngstown, Ohio) beat out an infield single to start the inning, and then stole second. Ashley Della Guardia (Phoenixville, Pa.) then fell behind 0-2 in the count, but worked the count full before smashing her first career homer to left to push the lead to 5-1.
• Matter worked a perfect top of the seventh to secure the win and improve to 12-1 on the season. She struck out 11, walked two and allowed just four hits.

How it Happened in Game 2:

• Stony Brook got the first runner of the game on after a slow hit ball to first that the runner just beat out, but she was then thrown out by Anna Lonchar (Bristow, Va.) trying to steal second
• Keating began the bottom of the first beating out an infield single and moving to second on a throwing error. She moved to third on Coppersmith's one-out single up the middle, and then scored on a Pierce single. 
• Coppersmith then struck out the side in the second, before Della Guardia reached on an error to start the second and then scored on a Lonchar no-doubt homer to left-center to make it 3-0
• The Seawolves then began attempting to bunt nearly every at-bat to reach base, but Coppersmith induced a couple bunt pop-ups around a bunt single to end the inning
• With one out in the top of the fourth, Coppersmith recorded her 775th career strike out to move into sole possession of first on the UMBC All-Time list
• Coppersmith finished the game with 10 strikeouts, and allowed two walks and just three hits (one infield single and two bunt singles).

UMBC travels to Maine for the first time since 2018 for a three-game weekend series. First pitch for Saturday's doubleheader is scheduled for noon