UMBC

BURLINGTON, Vt.—The UMBC baseball team dropped a twinbill to Vermont, 6-2 in Game 1 and 10-1 in Game 2 at Centennial Field on Saturday.  The Retrievers (10-28, 2-13 America East) tallied just 10 hits in the day’s action, as compared with the Catamounts (17-18, 6-4 America East) total of 20 hits.

Junior Steve Evans (3-4) and freshman Marty Zawacki (2-6) were slated with the losses for the Retrievers, with Evans going the distance in Game 1 and letting up six runs on nine hits while striking out four in 6.0 innings, and Zawacki letting up 10 runs (nine earned) on 11 hits while striking out three in 5.0 innings of work.

Juniors Will Delawter and Joe Fowler each recorded their fifth home run during the course of the day, but the Retrievers three total runs couldn’t compete with Vermont’s total of 16.

Ethan Paquette and Bryand Rembisz led the Catamounts from the plate, with Paquette going 3-for-3 with a double and two RBI in the opener while Rembisz went 3-for-4 with a homer, a stolen base and three RBI in Game Two.

Kyle Henry allowed just five hits, walked three and struck out six to improve to 4-5 on the season while Justin Albert went the distance in Game Two, scattering five hits and striking out two while letting one run score.

Evans and Henry battled back and forth in Game One, with Vermont taking the upper hand off an RBI double by Paquette that gave them a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the fourth.

Delawter knotted that score at one with a solo shot in the top of the sixth, but the Catamounts answered with a five-run, five-hit inning in the bottom of the sixth, giving them a 6-1 lead.

Senior Mike Scheffel added an RBI single in the seventh to make the final, 6-2, in favor of Vermont.

Fowler got the Retrievers off on the right foot, hitting a solo homer with one out in the first inning to give them a 1-0 lead, but Vermont quickly answered with two runs of their own in the bottom of the inning to take the lead for good.

The Catamounts added eight more runs, including a four-run fifth inning, while blanking the Retrievers for the rest of the game to take the win, 10-1.

The Retrievers will look to tie their first conference series this year, when they face the Catamounts in the four-game series finale on Sunday at 12:00 noon.