UMBC

Amanda Fefel picked up her 150th career hit and her 100th career RBI on Sunday.

BOSTON—The UMBC softball team (22-14, 2-4 AEC) dropped a pair of one-run heartbreakers to America East rival Boston University (23-10, 4-1 AEC) Sunday afternoon at the BU Softball Field. The Terriers, who swept the three-game series, defeated the Retrievers by scores of 2-1 and 5-4.

Game 1: Boston U. 2, UMBC 1

The Retrievers loaded the bases with three straight singles to start the game before center fielder Julia Culotta (Street, Md./North Harford/Tennessee) gave UMBC a 1-0 lead with an RBI groundout.

But an RBI single by BU shortstop Melissa Dubay tied the score in the bottom of the inning.

The Terriers broke the 1-1 tie in the fifth when a double by catcher Caitlin Rentler put runners on first and third with two outs, and center fielder April Setterlund came home on a wild pitch with the winning run.

Junior Amanda Fefel (Baltimore, Md./Catonsville) fell to 8-3 with the loss. She allowed two runs on five hits while striking out three in 4.2 innings of work. Sophomore Stephanie Weigman (Elkridge, Md./Archbishop Spalding) pitched the final 1.1 innings in relief and struck out three of the five batters she faced. Megan Currier picked up the victory to improve to 7-4 on the season. She gave up one run on five hits and struck out four in the complete game.

Fefel’s single in the first inning was the 150th hit of her career.

Game 2: Boston U. 5, UMBC 4

The Retrievers got on the board first, scoring a run on a passed ball in the second inning. But the Terriers tied it up in the third on Setterlund’s RBI double.

Left fielder Shayne Lotito’s two-out two-run homer in the sixth gave Boston U. a 3-1 lead, but Fefel responded with a three-run shot of her own to put UMBC on top, 4-3, in the top of the seventh.

But with one out in the bottom of the inning, BU second baseman Emily Roesch blasted a walk-off two-run home run over the right field fence to give the Terriers the 5-4 victory.

BU starter Cassidy Hardy (11-4) gave up four runs (three earned) on six hits and five walks while striking out six. Both pitchers went the distance. Weigman (13-10) allowed five runs on 10 hits and four walks while striking out four in the loss. She now has 169 strikeouts on the season, moving into a tie for second on UMBC’s single-season chart, just three behind Crystal Ray’s school record of 172.

The second of Fefel’s three RBIs in the game was the 100th run driven in of her career.

The Retrievers return to action on Wednesday, April 8, when they host America East rival Binghamton in a doubleheader beginning at 2 p.m. at UMBC Softball Stadium.