BALTIMORE, Md. - Host UMBC (9-11, 3-0 America East) jumped to a 9-0 lead and held off Binghamton baseball (7-13, 2-4 AE) 11-8 in the series finale Sunday afternoon at Alumni Field. After digging themselves a huge hole, BU outscored the Retrievers 8-3 over the final six innings but the damage was done. 

UMBC scored twice in the first, once in the second and broke open the game with five runs in the third. 

Down 9-0, the Bearcats began the chip away with five runs in the fifth and two more in the sixth. They had the tying run on base in the sixth before a strikeout ended the uprising. The Retrievers then added single runs in the seventh and eighth to offset a BU run in the ninth. 

In the fifth, senior center fielder Tommy Reifler produced a two-run single to get BU on the board. A bases loaded hit-by-pitch made it 9-3 and two more runs crossed on a bases loaded UMBC throwing error. In the sixth, junior left fielder Logan Haskell came through with a two-out two-run double to center, drawing the Bearcats to within two, 9-7. After an infield single by junior catcher Evin Sullivan put runners on first and third, UMBC got the strikeout to leave two stranded.

The Bearcats scored their final run in the ninth when freshman third baseman Jake Dally hit a two-out RBI double to score Sullivan, who had doubled two batters earlier.

Sullivan went 3-for-4 with an RBI, Haskell had two hits and two RBI and Reifler drove in a pair. Graduate reliever Theo Farynick had the most success of the five BU pitchers. He worked two scoreless innings with one hit and three strikeouts.

The Bearcats host Canisius in a non-conference game at 3 p.m. Tuesday.