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Ben Cowles
7
Maryland UMD 17-17
13
Winner Northwestern NU 16-15
Maryland UMD
17-17
7
Final
13
Northwestern NU
16-15
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Maryland UMD 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 2 0 7 7 1
Northwestern NU 2 3 0 0 0 0 2 6 X 13 11 0

W: Paciorek (2-1) L: Vail, Andrew (1-1)

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Winner Maryland UMD 18-17
10
Northwestern NU 16-16
Winner
Maryland UMD
18-17
12
Final
10
Northwestern NU
16-16
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Maryland UMD 0 0 0 5 0 4 3 0 0 12 13 1
Northwestern NU 1 0 0 3 0 5 0 1 0 10 11 3

W: DiLuia, Mark (2-1) L: Alepra (0-2) S: Murphy, John (7)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Terps Split Doubleheader, Win Series Over Northwestern

EVANSTON, Ill. – The Maryland baseball team won game two of a doubleheader against Northwestern, 12-10, to win the series at Rocky Miller Park Saturday afternoon. Northwestern won game one, 13-8,

What to Know (Game Two)

  • The Terrapins (18-17, 5-4 Big Ten) played a back-and-forth affair with Northwestern. The Wildcats scored one in the first before Maryland pounced for five in the fourth. Northwestern struck back for three in the bottom half of the fourth before Maryland jumped back out with four in the sixth. The Wildcats then got five in the bottom half of the sixth to tie it at 9-9 and Maryland against responded with three in the seventh. Northwestern clawed back with a run in the eighth, but that was it.
  • Yes, that all actually happened.
  • Maryland's five-run fourth started with an error that allowed Taylor Wright to reach second. Maxwell Costes scored Wright with a single before trotting home after Justin Vought's towering homer to left field. The Terps plated two more runs on Benjamin Cowles' RBI single and a Michael Pineiro bunt.
  • After the three-run Wildcat fourth, Maryland continued to do all the scoring with four in the sixth. The Terps loaded the bases with one out before Wright poked the ball through the left side to score a run. Costes was hit by a pitch to plate a run followed by a Vought single to plate another. Josh Maguire walked with the bases loaded to make the score 9-4.
  • Northwestern came back to tie it with five more runs, but the Terps responded in the top of the seventh. Cowles hit his first career homer to lead off the frame. Bednar hit a sac fly to score Pineiro and Costes doubled to right off the wall to score Lee.
  • The Wildcats finally did not come back. They did plate one in the eighth, but the Sheriff John Murphy got the final six outs and ended a wild affair at Rocky Miller park.
  • Costes and Vought led Maryland with three RBIs. Cowles notched his first career game with three hits.

What to Know (Game 1)

  • Northwestern won a high-scoring game one 13-7. The Wildcats jumped out to a 5-0 lead after two innings before Maryland battled back and tied it after six innings. Northwestern once again took the lead with two in the seventh but the Terps tied it with two in the eighth. Northwestern then scored six in the eighth to finish the game off.
  • Maryland starter Zach Thompson gave up the five runs over the first and second before settling in to record zeros from the third to the sixth.
  • Maryland's two runs in the fifth came on solo home runs from Pineiro and Bednar. The Terps then plated three runs on two bases loaded hit by pitches and a bases loaded walk.
  • Costes tied the ballgame in the eighth after a pair of Northwestern runs in the seventh on a two-out, two strike, two-run homer over the fence in left.
  • Northwestern won the game in the eighth. The go-ahead run came via shenanigans (a runner that looked to have been tagged out at the plate), before the Wildcats started slugging. Alex Erro hit a three-run homer that was the highlight of the inning offensively for Northwestern.  

Other Stuff

  • Bednar leads the team in multi-hit games (12). Bednar and Costes are tied for the team lead with eight multi-RBI games.
  • Lee and Vought have both reached base in 10 consecutive games, tied for the team lead. Costes has reached base in eight straight, and has hits in seven straight, which is tops on the team.
  • Cowles notched his first career three-hit games. He hit .455 for the series. He did not lose his hat today.
  • Maryland is now 3-2 all-time in Evanston, Ill. The Terps and Wildcats played a three game series in 2015 in Evanston.  
  • With its series win this weekend and the series win last weekend at Illinois, Maryland has now won back-to-back series on the road for the first time since 'Nam… (2006, wins at Jacksonville and Duke). Gotta love when the Terps beat Duke.
  • Maryland scored 32 runs in the series, its most since scoring 39 against Ohio State in 2015 (May 8-10). Maryland assistant coach Anthony Papio hit .385 with a homer and four runs scored. Sheesh, Pap.

Up Next

The Terps are back to the midweek! Tuesday James Madison comes to College Park to play the Terps are 4 p.m. That game is on BTN Plus. Maryland then plates the Patriots of George Mason in Fairfax, and you can trust your PR guy on that. First pitch is at 3 p.m. Maryland Baseball Network will have the coverage for both, via the MIXLR App. That's the MIXLR App, M-I-X-L-R.

 

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