GREENVILLE, N.C. -- #24 Maryland suffered a 9-6 defeat to #13 East Carolina as the Terps' 2021 season came to an end in the NCAA Tournament on Sunday night at ECU's Clark-LeClair Stadium. The Terps (30-18) and Pirates (44-15) battled late into the night following a rainstorm that delayed the start of the game for more than two hours. The game finished at 12:56 a.m. ET on Monday morning as the game lasted 4:20. East Carolina won its sixth NCAA Regional and will play the winner of the Vanderbilt-Georgia Tech matchup next weekend.  

Matthew Shaw smacked a pair of home runs in his first two at bats and finished 3-for-5 with two RBIs. Maxwell Costes boomed his third home run of the weekend -- in the eighth inning, as Maryland attempted to rally -- as he went 2-for-3 with two RBIs. Troy Schreffler Jr. went 3-for-4 and drove in two runs while Randy Bednar went 2-for-4.

The game featured runs in the first five innings with East Carolina scoring in each of the first four frames. The game settled down from there with no runs scored in the sixth or seventh before the teams combined for five runs in the eighth. 

The teams combined to use 11 pitchers, six Pirates and five Terrapins. Each team's staff threw more than 200 pitches. 

ALL-REGION TEAM
Maryland's Justin Vought, Costes, Bednar, Bobby Zmarzlak and pitcher Ryan Ramsey were all named to the All-Region Team. 

HOMER HEAVEN

• With Shaw's pair of dingers and Costes' shot, the Terps blasted 12 homers in four games at the Regional.
• Shaw was the second Terp with two homers in a game this weekend with Bobby Zmarzlak hitting two on Saturday vs. Norfolk State.  
• Seven different Maryland players had homers in the NCAA Tournament with Randy Bednar also hitting a pair in addition to the multiple blasts by Shaw and Costes. 

BREAKING DOWN THE GAME

• East Carolina jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first.
• Shaw, Maryland's lead-off hitter, homered to left field in the bottom of the first to draw the Terps within one at 2-1.
• ECU's Seth Caddell answered with a solo home run in the top of the second to put the Pirates up 3-1. 
• After ECU added another run in the top of the third to make it 4-1, Shaw connected for his second bomb of the game to cut Maryland's deficit to 4-2 after three innings. 
• The Pirates added another run on a hit batter in the top of the fourth. 
• The Terps crept back within one at 5-4 as Schreffler drove in Justin Vought and Costes in the bottom of the fifth. 
• After both teams were held off the scoreboard in the sixth and seventh innings, East Carolina tacked on three insurance runs in the top of the eighth. The first came on a fielder's choice, on which the Terps nearly turned a double play. Zach Agnos doubled in two runs to increase the Pirates lead to 8-4. 
• Costes responded with a two-run two-out drive over the right field fence to draw the Terps within two runs at 8-6 in the bottom of the eighth. 
• ECU added another run on a groundout in the top of the ninth for the 9-6 advantage. 

FISHER OUT OF THE PEN

• Sean Fisher performed admirably out of the Maryland bullpen, throwing 3.1 innings in relief to keep the Terps in the game from the fourth through the eighth inning. 
• Fisher allowed two runs - both in the eighth - and gave up just two hits in his stint. 

NCAA HISTORY

• Maryland won multiple games in an NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2015, when they won the Los Angeles Regional at UCLA with a pair of wins against the Bruins and a victory over Ole Miss. 
• Maryland played in its seventh NCAA Tournament and fourth in the last seven years (2014, 2015, 2017, 2021).
• The Terps' last NCAA Regional appearance came in 2017, when Maryland went 1-2 at the Winston-Salem Regional. Prior to Maryland's appearance in 2017, the Terps made back-to-back Super Regionals in 2014 and 2015. 
• Maryland is now 10-11 all-time in the NCAA Tournament, going 2-2 this year.