BALTIMORE, Md. – Sophomore first baseman Andrew Tan drove in four runs and sophomore reliever John Lumpinski pitched five one-hit shutout innings to lead visiting Binghamton baseball (18-28, 14-15 America East) past UMBC (22-29, 11-18 AE) 7-1 Friday night at Alumni Field.

With the win, BU remains in the hunt for the No. 2 playoff seed (and first-round bye). Heading into Saturday's final day of the regular season, the Bearcats sit one game one game behind UMass Lowell (15-14) and NJIT (15-14), but BU does hold the tiebreaker over NJIT and also has the advantage if all three teams wind up tied. The  Bearcats are assured a No. 2-4 seed. Maine is the host and has secured the No. 1 seed for the May 25-28 double-elimination tournament.

Lumpinski (W, 3-6) was forced into an early appearance Friday night, replacing starter Gabe Driscoll just two batters in. He stranded the bases loaded in the first and worked five masterful innings. Lumpinski only allowed an infield single in the third inning and struck out four. In his last seven outings, Lumpinski has a 1.35 ERA.

The Bearcats scored two runs in the third, two more in the fourth and added three insurance runs in the ninth. UMBC tallied its lone run in the eighth. One night after the teams combined for 25 runs on 38 hits, this one was more contained.

With two out in the third, freshman center fielder Logan Haskell drew a walk and scored on an RBI double by Tan. Freshman catcher Evin Sullivan followed with an RBI single – his team-high 32^nd of the season – and BU built a 2-0 lead.

In the fourth, senior shortstop Jake Evans worked a two-out walk and junior right fielder Colin Mason followed by taking an 0-1 pitch over the wall in left center for his first collegiate home run. The two-run blow made it 4-0.

In the ninth, Evans extended his hit streak to 19 games with a leadoff single. In his final at-bat of a hitless game, he kept alive the second-longest streak in program history (Joe Charron holds record with a 21-game streak in 2010). With two outs, Haskell walked and Tan drilled a 3-run home run down the left field line – his fourth of the season.

Sophomore reliever Justin Rosner struck out three in two innings before junior closer Jack Collins closed it out with five strikeouts in two innings.  

Tan drove in four runs for the second time this season (March 6 at VMI) and Sullivan had two hits to raise his season average to .333.

The teams play in the regular season finale at 11:30 a.m. Saturday. The start time was moved up to avoid afternoon temperatures that are expected to rise into the 90s.