BALTIMORE – No. 17 Richmond broke free of pesky UMBC over the last 17 minutes and defeated the Retrievers, 13-4, before 923 fans at UMBC Stadium.
The Spiders, whose only losses are to national powers Virginia and Maryland by a combined five goals, improved to 4-2, while the Retrievers slipped to 1-3.
UMBC opens America East Conference play next Saturday, March 16 when they host defending league champion Bryant.
Junior midfielder
Jordan Galloway recorded his third career three-goal game versus the Spiders, but the hosts were constantly thwarted by UR goalkeeper Zach Vigue, who saved 15 of 19 shots on goal.
Galloway got UMBC off to an early 1-0 when he took a feed from freshman midfielder
Corey Myers and scored from deep on a semi-break just 1:19 into the game. The Retriever defense held firm for the entire first quarter, as senior goalkeeper
Jayson Tingue stopped four of five shots on goal.
UR did get the equalizer at the 8:47 mark of the first, which started a 4-0 run. The go-ahead and third goal occurred 32 seconds apart in second quarter and finished on a score at the 5:16 mark.
The Retrievers would take back momentum as Galloway notched his second at the 6:03 mark and had the home crowd alive on the play of the game 61 seconds later. Freshman midfielder
Ryan Demato stripped the ball from an unsuspecting Vigue a few yards from the goal, got the ground ball and fed senior attackman
Brian Tregoning, who quickly scored into an unguarded goal to slice the deficit to 4-3.
UMBC would have two possessions to tie, but committed a pair of turnovers and UR tallied twice in the final 3:42 of the second quarter to lead, 6-3, at intermission.
After UR extended the run to 3-0 early in the third quarter, Galloway converted a
Mike Doughty feed and UMBC was within 7-4 at the 7:55 mark.
Again, the Retrievers had an opportunity to come closer, but failed on a man-up opportunity and the visitors scored with 2:04 and :01 to play in the stanza to start to pull away.
Richmond outscored UMBC, 4-0, in the final quarter.
Tingue made 14 saves, one shy of his career high, against the sixth-ranked offensive unit in the country.
