Game 1 Highlights | Game 2 Highlights

BALTIMORE -- Jerzie Nutile (Pasadena, Md.) and Kya Matter (Dalmatia, Pa.) each tossed complete-game shutouts as the UMBC Softball team won a pair of games on Saturday at the UMBC Round Robin #2. 

Nutile picked up her first win as a Retriever in a 6-0 victory over Lafayette, and then Matter followed with a one-hitter in a 3-0 win over Youngstown State.

Matter allowed just the one hit while striking out seven and walking two, and got all her run support on a three-run homer by Madison Wilson (Abingdon, Md.) in the third inning.

Nutile, a sophomore transfer who went 1-0 in three appearances while at Longwood last season, allowed just four hits while striking out eight and walking just one.

Game 1:

• Macy Granzow (Glen Dale, Md.) reach on a bunt single to start the bottom of the first. She then stole second and moved to third on a groundout.
• After a strikeout for the second out, Ashley Della Guardia (Phoenixville, Pa.) sent an 0-2 pitch over the center field wall for UMBC's first homer of the season
• It remained 2-0 until the third when Courtney Coppersmith (York, Pa.) hit the first pitch of the inning off the wall for a double
• Karly Keating (Orlando, Fla.) then laid down a perfect bunt and the first baseman threw the ball away allowing Coppersmith to score and make it 3-0
• Keating would eventually make her way to third and then score on a wild pitch to make it 4-0
• In the fifth, Granzow beat out an infield single to leadoff the inning and would end up scoring on a Shanel Stott (Cumberland, Md.) two-out double to make it 5-0
• Madison O'Berg (Lorain, Ohio) led off the sixth with a single, and her pinch runner Jaedyn McKeon (Stewartstown, Pa.) would score from first on a Zoe Russell (Roxboro, N.C.) double
• Nutile got some defensive help to complete the shutout after a single and a wild pitch put a runner at second with one out.
• Nutile would get her 8th strikeout of the game and then the next batter hit a single up the middle, but center fielder Catelyn Thrush (Perkasie, Pa.) would make a great throw from center to home, where the runner was easily tagged out to end the game

Game 2:

• Both teams went down in order in the first, and Youngstown State would get their first, and only, hit of the game to lead off the second on a ball in the gap that was nearly caught.
• Matter would escape unharmed thanks to a pair of strikeouts
• UMBC would score the only runs of the game in the third when Coppersmith and Stott hit back-to-back singles to start the inning and Wilson followed by hitting her opposite field blast over the wall in right field
• That's all the offense UMBC would need as Matter retired 12 of the final 13 batters she faced, including the last 11 in a row to end the contest.
• Erin Behel (Ellicott City, Md.) made her first career start in the lineup and went 2-for-2 with a pair of singles.
• Emily Riggs (Lancaster, Pa.) picked up the first multi-hit game of her career with a pair of singles as well

UMBC (3-3) will conclude play tomorrow with a pair of games. The Retrievers and YSU will play at 12:30, followed by a rematch with Lafayette.