LEESBURG, Fla. -- Maryland softball wrapped up its second weekend in Florida to begin the 2021 season with yet another extra-inning game, and another one-run game. The Terps (6-6) fell to Iowa 4-3 in eight innings on Sunday morning at Sleepy Hollow Fields. The Terps split six games this weekend, for the second time after doing the same two weeks ago in Leesburg. 

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
- Maryland rallied to tie the game twice, at 2-2 and 3-3, before falling in the bottom of the 8th inning.
- Down 2-0, JoJo McRae tripled to center in the second inning to bring home Michaela Jones and Trinity Schlotterbeck. 
- Then in the sixth inning, down 3-2, Taylor Liguori's single to left brought home pinch runner Megan Mikami, to tie the game 3-3. Jones was thrown out at home, trying to give the Terps the lead right after Mikami's run had tied the game. 
- In the circle, Courtney Wyche tossed 7 1/3 innings and did not allow an earned run, giving up just five hits. 
- Seven different Terps had hits in the win.
- Iowa scored the game-winning run in the bottom of the eighth to take the win. 

KEEPING IT CLOSE AND PLAYING LONG
- Maryland has played 12 games this season and nine have been one-run affairs with the Terps winning four of those games.
- Of Maryland's 12 games, six have gone to extra innings.

UP NEXT
- The Terps play their first true road games  of the season, playing four games at Ohio State next weekend in Columbus from March 26-28. 
- Maryland plays its first home games on the weekend of April 2-4, against Northwestern.