BALTIMORE -- Luke Trythall and Matthew Best each drove in a pair of runs as the UMBC Baseball team defeated defending Big Ten champion Maryland, 4-2, on Wednesday night at Alumni Field.

Maryland entered the contest averaging 6.9 runs per game, but seven UMBC pitchers combined to hold the high-powered Terrapin offense to its second lowest output of the season.

Ben Craig worked two innings of relief to pick up his first win of the season, while Sam Downs retired the final four batters of the game to pick up his first career save. Eddie Sargent started on the mound and worked three perfect innings, and Sam Daniels, Nick Remy and Logan Wiley all had scoreless relief outings.

The victory snapped a 16-game losing streak to Maryland dating back to 2005, and was UMBC's first win at home against Maryland since 1995

How it Happened:

• After Sargent left the game, Maryland scored a pair of runs in the fourth to go up 2-0.
• It would remain 2-0 until the bottom of the fifth when Trythall led-off the inning with a solo homer to right to cut the deficit in half. It was Trythall's first homer of the season
• Dawson Baracani, Kyle Eddington and Jayden Shertel each singled with one out to load the bases for Best, who then gave the Retrievers a 3-2 lead with a two-run double to left
• Maryland got a pair of singles to leadoff the sixth against Daniels, but the senior pitcher got a force out at second and then a pair of strikeouts to end the threat.
• It was still 3-2 in the eighth when the visitors got runners to the corners with one out
• Wiley got a strikeout for the second out, and then Downs entered and got a grounder to end the inning and keep UMBC in the lead
• The Dawgs got an important insurance run in the eighth when Matt Ryan hit a leadoff single and then moved to third when the centerfielder misplayed an Anthony Swenda single
• Trythall then hit an RBI fielder's choice to second that scored Ryan and made it 4-2
• Downs worked a perfect ninth, punctuated by a pair of strikeouts to close out the win
• Swenda went 2-for-3 with a walk, and was the only Retriever with multiple hits in the game

UMBC returns to America East play this weekend when it welcomes UAlbany to Alumni Field. The series begins on Friday at 6 p.m.