LOCATION: UAlbany Field - Albany, N.Y.
 
SHORT STORY: With two one-run decisions, the Great Danes split the doubleheader to win the weekend series over UMBC, Sunday.
 
RECORDS: UAlbany 16-7, 5-1 America East | UMBC 15-14, 4-5 America East
 
GAME ONE
 
SCORE: UMBC 3, UAlbany 2
 
KEY STATS

• Graduate student Morgan Petty and redshirt-junior Victoria Vilarchao earned the only two Great Dane hits with a home run each.
• Redshirt-junior Kate Powers pitched a complete game with five strikeouts.

 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• UMBC opened the scoring in the first inning with a single run.
• Kate Powers left one runner on base with her first strikeout of the game.
• After a scoreless second inning, the Retrievers added an unearned run in the third and a home run in the fourth for a 3-0 lead.
• Morgan Petty led off the bottom of the fourth with a home run to put the Great Danes on the board.
• The UAlbany defense left two Retrievers on base to get to the bottom of the seventh.
• Victoria Vilarchao hit a one-out home run to close UMBC's lead to one but it was not enough as the Great Danes fell, 3-2.

 
GAME TWO
 
SCORE: UAlbany 2, UMBC 1
 
KEY STATS

• Victoria Vilarchao and graduate student Caitlyn Mitros led with two hits.
• Morgan Petty, freshman Mary Kate Murray, and sophomore Deanna Grahek followed with one hit each.
• Murray and Vilarchao hit a double each.
• Graduate student Maddi Petrella hit a sac fly for the only UAlbany RBI.
• Graduate student Wendi Hammond pitched a complete game with four strikeouts for her second win of the weekend.

 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• After a scoreless first inning, the Retrievers got on the board with a home run in the second inning.
• Deanna Grahek scored off a sacrifice fly from Maddi Petrella to tie the score at one in the third inning.
• Victoria Vilarchao and Mary Kate Murray hit a double in the fourth and fifth innings, respectively.
• Holding the tie through the fourth, fifth, and sixth innings, the Great Danes and the Retrievers remained tied at one.
• In the bottom of the seventh, after two consecutive singles from Caitlyn Mitros and Morgan Petty, Petrella grounded into a double play. While the Retrievers were turning the double play, Mitros was able to make it from second to home to score the game-winning run. 

 
NEXT: The Great Danes will head on the road for a doubleheader at UMass Lowell (Apr. 9) before facing Bryant in a three-game series (Apr. 13-14).
 
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