BALTIMORE -- The UMBC Baseball team used a nine-run fifth inning to erase an early 4-0 deficit en route to a 15-6 victory over visiting Bryant on Thursday night.

The Retrievers, who entered the fifth trailing 4-1, sent 14 batters to the plate, with the deciding runs scoring on a Danny Wyatt opposite field grand slam to break open the game.

Every member of the UMBC lineup scored at least one run, eight had at least one hit, and four had multi-hit games, led by Matt Ryan's pair of doubles and a single. 

Luke Johnson struck out nine in six innings of work to improve to 5-4 on the season, while Anthony Swenda homered for the fourth time in five games

Of the Retrievers 13 hits, six were doubles and two were homers, and six different players scored at least two runs.

How it Happened:

• Bryant took a 4-0 lead into the bottom of the third, but UMBC got one run back after Derek Paris doubled and scored on Ryan's two-out RBI single.
• It remained 4-1 until the fifth when UMBC started the big inning with five straight hits.
• Kyle Eddington and Luke Trythall hit back-to-back doubles to cut the lead in half, before Paris blooped a single to put runners at the corners.
• Dawson Baracani and Justin Taylor then hit -back-to-back RBI singles to tie the game
• After Ryan was hit by a pitch to load the bases, Swenda drove in Baracani on a fielder's choice to second to give the Dawgs a 5-4 lead
• Matthew Best was then hit by a pitch to load the bases and force a pitching change, but Wyatt welcomed the new pitcher with his grand slam to make it 9-4
• Eddington would follow by being hit by a pitch and would eventually score on a wild pitch to make it 10-4 and conclude the scoring for the inning
• The Bulldogs got two runs back in the top of the sixth, but the Retrievers would answer with one of their own in the bottom half after Ryan doubled and would score on a pair of wild pitches
• After Sam Downs entered in relief and worked a scoreless seventh and eighth, UMBC added four more runs in the bottom of the eighth.
• Baracani hit a leadoff double and scored when Taylor followed with a single
• Ryan then forced another pitching change when he doubled to put two in scoring position for Swenda, who promptly blasted a three-run homer off the new reliever
• Nick Remy worked a scoreless ninth to finish off the win

The teams will play a 7 inning/9 inning doubleheader on Friday beginning at 2 p.m. There will be a senior ceremony in-between games.