Box Score Union, N.J. – Junior outfielder and New Jersey native Michael Cilio (Chester, N.J./West Morris Mendham) hit his first collegiate home run, a grand slam in the seventh inning, sparking UMBC to an 11-6 win in the finale of an America East series versus NJIT.
 
Earlier on Sunday, the Highlanders finalized an 11-3 victory, finishing off the final four innings in a game halted by rain after five innings on Saturday night and clinching the series victory.  
 
UMBC (15-20, 6-9 America East) has won four of five series finales versus league competition.  
 
HOW IT HAPPENED: GAME 2: 

• The Retrievers took a 1-0 lead in the second inning as Logan Doran singled home Tony Krueger.
• But the Highlanders erased that lead quickly by putting up three runs in their half of the second inning.
• They would add four more in the third and the fourth to build an 11-1 lead before rain halted the game after five innings.
• When played resumed on Sunday, UMBC right fielder Ian Diaz homered to left field in the sixth inning and the Retrievers added another run in the eighth inning.
• Freshman pitcher Nick Remy continued his recent success, striking out six Highlanders out of the nine consecutive batters he retired in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings.

 
UMBC banged out 13 hits in the game, led by Myles Nicholson, who collected three singles. Krueger and Doran added two apiece.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED: GAME 3    

• UMBC took an early 2-0 lead, as Krueger plated Diaz with a sacrifice line out to left and Doran drove in Justin Taylor with a single to right center.
• The Highlanders scored single runs in the second and third to knot the score at 2-2.
• Sophomore hurler Luke Johnson struck out eight Highlanders through five innings, but left with the game still knotted at 2-all.
• In the seventh, Taylor got a one-out single to right field, which chased Nicholson around from second base. After Krueger walked to load the bases, Cilio pinch hit for Jayden Shertel and hit a towering blast to left center field, clearing the bases and putting the Retrievers ahead, 7-2.
• NJIT scored a run in their half of the seventh, but Taylor equalized that with a one-hop ground rule double over the right-centerfield wall to score Matt Ryan.
• The Highlanders rallied for three runs off reliever Evan Selmer in their half of the eighth to cut the deficit to 8-6 and had the bases loaded with two outs. But Selmer got David Marcano to strike out on a 1-2 pitch to half the rally.
• Luke Trythrall doubled home Cilio in the top of the ninth and Matt Ryan's ground ball single through the 5-6 hole drove home Eric Shandler and Trythrall to give UMBC an 11-6 lead.
• Selmer allowed a couple of base runners, but retired NJIT to record a save.

 
Grad student Michael Schwartz, who pitched a scoreless sixth inning, was given credit for his first collegiate win.   
 
UMBC banged out 14 hits, paced by Taylor and Trythall with three apiece. Both recorded two doubles each, as Taylor scored two and drove in a pair.
 
Nicholson went 2-for-4, giving him seven hits in 13 at-bats in the series.  Over his last six games, he has 14 hits in 25 plate appearances (.560), raising his batting mark to .439.
 
The Retrievers host GW on Tuesday. First pitch is slated for 6:00 p.m. at Alumni Field.