BALTIMORE - Jack Fish's first career UMBC (0-1) goal pulled the Retrievers within one with 10:38 to play, but Drexel (2-0) ended the game on a 6-0 run to pull out a 15-8 victory. 

Jake Kucinski (2 goals, 1 assist), Connor Chick (3 assists), and Xander Maxwell (1 goal, 1 assist) all recorded multiple points in the season-opening contest for the Retrievers. 

Defensively, seven different Retrievers caused a turnover, while Dylan Hendrix and Dylan Sharpe recorded five and four ground balls, respectively. Connor McMahon made 10 saves in net for UMBC. The Retrievers also won the face-off battle, 15-12, with Alex Steers winning 15-of-26 tries at the face-off X.

After falling behind 1-0, UMBC scored the next two goals to take its lone lead of the game, getting a goal from sophomore captain Jameson Coffman to tie the contest at 1-1 before Zack Johnson's man-up goal from Maxwell put the Retrievers on top with 9:44 to play in the opening period. 

Trailing 5-3 after one, Kucinski scored 48 seconds into the second to pull UMBC within one, but the Dragons would score twice in the low-scoring quarter to take a 7-4 halftime lead. 

Caden Zadell opened the third quarter with a goal for Drexel, but Kucinski's second of the night, off an assist from Chick, sparked a three-goal run that saw the Retrievers pull within a goal through three. Conner Layden scored with 3:01 left in the third before Nick Gutierrez stamped his name on the score sheet less than a minute later to make it 8-7. 

The teams traded goals in the fourth quarter before Witt Crawford's third goal of the contest sparked the late-game Drexel run. 

UMBC returns to action next Friday night at UMBC Stadium as it plays host to Loyola (Md.) at 6 p.m.