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Zach Thompson
6
Winner Maryland UMD 22-21, 8-6 BIG TEN
4
Penn State PSU 18-20, 1-15 BIG TEN
Winner
Maryland UMD
22-21, 8-6 BIG TEN
6
Final
4
Penn State PSU
18-20, 1-15 BIG TEN
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Maryland UMD 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 1 6 10 1
Penn State PSU 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 4 4 2

W: Thompson, Zach (2-4) L: Mock (2-3) S: Murphy, John (9)

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Maryland UMD 22-22, 8-7 BIG TEN
10
Winner Penn State PSU 19-20, 2-15 BIG TEN
Maryland UMD
22-22, 8-7 BIG TEN
7
Final
10
Penn State PSU
19-20, 2-15 BIG TEN
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Maryland UMD 1 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 0 7 11 0
Penn State PSU 1 0 5 1 2 0 1 0 X 10 13 3

W: Mellott (5-3) L: LaBonte, Trevor (1-5) S: Virbitsky (3)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Terps Split Doubleheader, Win Series Over Penn State

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – The Maryland baseball team captured a road series victory with a doubleheader split against Penn State at Medlar Field Saturday afternoon. The Terps won game one, 6-4, before Penn State salvaged a win in game three by a score of 10-7.

What to Know (Game 1)

  • The Terps took a 1-0 lead when Maxwell Costes scored on a throwing error and led for the remainder of the ballgame, ultimately securing a 6-4 win.
  • Costes reached in that second inning on a double, before Caleb Walls dropped down a sac bunt that was thrown away by Penn State pitcher Eric Mock, allowing Costes to score.
  • Penn State's Shea Sbranti tied the ballgame in the third with a solo homer off right-hander Zach Thompson.
  • Thompson was solid throughout his start. The redshirt sophomore tossed seven innings, allowing three hits and three runs while striking out three.
  • In the fifth, Chris Alleyne doubled to right field with two outs before moving to third on a failed pickoff attempt. After AJ Lee was hit by a pitch, Randy Bednar doubled to right center to plate both runners.
  • Penn State cut into the lead with a run in the seventh, but the Terps responded with a Justin Vought two-run homer, his seventh, to take a 5-2 advantage.
  • The Nittany Lions responded with two of their own in the eighth, but Taylor Wright's ninth inning solo blast made it a 6-4 game. The homer was the third of Wright's season.
  • Senior righty John Murphy closed the game in the ninth to secure the win. It's the ninth save of Murphy's season.
  • Maxwell Costes reached base four times and doubled twice in the ballgame.  

What to Know (Game 2)

  • Penn State's five-run third gave them home team the lead for good in a 10-7 win over the Terps in the second game of the doubleheader.
  • The Terps opened the scoring in the first with a single that scored Randy Bednar. Penn State responded in the bottom half on a Kris Kremer RBI double.
  • Penn State bounced LaBonte in their five run third. The Terps scored three in the fourth on an Alleyne hit by pitch with the bases loaded and a two-run AJ Lee grounder to short. The ball from short was thrown away, allowing the second run to score from third.
  • Penn State went back up by three with a run in the fourth, but Michael Pineiro's two-RBI single plated a pair in the Maryland fifth to make it a 7-6 ballgame.
  • The Nittany Lions once again responded with a two-RBI double to extend the lead again before Maryland struck back on a Taylor Wright RBI single in the sixth to make the deficit 9-7.
  • Penn State added a run in the bottom half of the seventh. The Terps loaded the bases in the ninth, but Bednar's screaming line drive was caught by a perfectly positions Kremer at second base.
  • Pineiro tallied three-hits on the day and two RBIs. Bednar and Walls also notched multi-hit games.

Other Stuff

  • AJ Lee has reached in 19 consecutive games, which is the longest streak for Terp this season. He ended the 2017 season on a 24-game reached base streak. Lee is also riding a ten-game hitting streak, his career-high is 14 set in 2017.  
  • Bednar tied Taylor Wright for the Big Ten lead with 18 doubles on the season. They are both now t-13th in single season doubles in Maryland history and would tie four others for ninth all-time with their next double. They are 10 off the school record of 28, set by Ken Noe in 1991.
  • Murphy's ninth save makes him tied for fourth with Kevin Mooney's 2013 season on the Maryland single season saves list. Mooney holds three of the top four single season save marks in school history (13/2014, 11/2015, 9/2013) while Brett Cecil also had 13 in 2006.

Up Next

Maryland will face Villanova in a midweek contest on Wednesday on the road at 3:30 p.m. The Terps will then host Big Ten leader Michigan at Bob "Turtle" Smith Stadium this season. All three of those games will be shown on BTN Plus. Maryland Baseball Network will have the coverage for all the games, via the MIXLR App. That's the MIXLR App, M-I-X-L-R. (Spelling is FUN!)

 

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