BALTIMORE – Graduate student left fielder Christian Easley homered and had two hits but the host UMBC Retrievers dropped a 13-4 decision against the Georgetown Hoyas on Wednesday evening at Alumni Field.
 
Graduate student right fielder Ian Diaz (2-for-5) and sophomore center fielder Jayden Shertel (2-for-4, double) also collected a pair of hits for the Retrievers, who fell to 14-15 on the season.
 
Georgetown (18-15) scored four runs in the top of the first inning against UMBC graduate student righthander Matt Clarke (0-1) and added five more in the second to jump out to a 9-0 lead.
 
Catcher Owen Carapellotti led off the game with a home run to straight away center field and the visitors added three straight one-out RBI hits in the opening frame.
 
The Hoyas recorded four more hits in the top of the second, highlighted by a two-run homer to left center by shortstop Austin Kretzschmar.
 
UMBC got on the board in the bottom of the second as junior second baseman Anthony Swenda doubled and scored on an RBI sacrifice fly by senior third baseman Michael Cilio.
 
Easley hit a solo homer to center field in the bottom of the third after Georgetown had taken an 11-1 lead.
 
Junior shortstop Dawson Baracani and Swenda added RBI ground outs for UMBC's final two runs.
 
Freshman Kai Leckszas (2-2) allowed four earned runs over six innings to record the win for the Hoyas.
 
UMBC will travel to Bryant for a three-game series beginning on Friday.