COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Behind two homers from Maxwell Costes and a shutdown start by Sean Burke, the Maryland baseball team shut out Rhode Island 3-0 and took the series two games to one.  Maryland improves to 5-1 on the season, while Sean Burke earns his first career win and Mark DiLuia earned his first career save.

What to Know 

• Costes showed off his power for the first time this season. Last year's team leader in home runs, Costes blasted two solo shots, his first multi-home run game of his career.
• Burke was masterful in his second career start, tossing 5.2 innings of scoreless ball, allowing just four hits while striking out eight. Seven of Burke's eight strikeouts were swing-and-misses.
• Maryland continued to have success hitting the ball, getting five hits in the first three innings before the offense went stagnant throughout the middle innings.
• Maryland turned two double plays on the afternoon after turning just two in the previous five games. The first came on a strikeout/throwout to end the top of the first, and the second was a crafty 5-3 force at third and groundout to end the top of the fifth.
• Chris Alleyne doubled to lead off the bottom of the first for the Terps, his fourth double of the season, which leads the team.
• Alleyne advanced to third on a wild pitch then scored on a Tucker Flint RBI groundout.
• Burke faced the minimum through two innings before walking the leadoff batter in the third. Kept it scoreless anyway.
• Costes muscled the first of his two home runs in the bottom of the third, a no-doubter to left center.
• Burke got two down but gave up two hits in the sixth, giving way to Elliot Zoellner who got the final out of the inning with two runners on.
• Connor Staine retired the side in order in the top of the seventh and gave up just a single hit in the eighth.
• Costes mashed his second home run of the day in the bottom of the eighth, another solo shot that some say is still on an upward ascent.
• Staine went back out for the ninth, retiring the first two batters he faced but allowing the next two batters to reach. Mark DiLuia came in for the save situation with two runners on and rung up the Rhode Island batter for the final out.

Up Next

Maryland hosts George Mason on Tuesday, Feb. 25 att 4:00 for the first midweek game of the season. Maryland then travels to Conway, S.C. to play a three-game set with Coastal Carolina.