THE BASICS:

GAME 1 RESULT: UMBC 7, Hartford 6 (10)
GAME 2 RESULT:  Hartford 6, UMBC 4 (7)
LOCATION: Baltimore, Md. (Alumni Field)
RECORDS: Hartford (36-15, 14-8 America East); UMBC (27-21, 12-10)

THE LEAD:
Ben Bengtson's two-run single with two outs in the top of the seventh helped the Hartford baseball team earn a doubleheader split as the Hawks snapped UMBC's eight-game winning streak in game two of the double dip. Down 4-3 with two outs in the last frame, the Hawks rallied for three runs to take a 6-4 win. UMBC rallied from down 6-5 in extra innings in game one to take the first contest of the series.
 
Heading into the last day of the season, the Hawks are one game ahead of Stony Brook for the No. 2 seed, with the Seawolves slated to play a doubleheader against Albany tomorrow. Any combination of a Hartford win over UMBC tomorrow or a Stony Brook loss in either game will give the Hawks a first-round bye in the America East Tournament.

GAME 1: UMBC 7, HARTFORD 6 (10)
UMBC scored two runs in the bottom of the 10^th inning to earn a come-from-behind, walk-off win over the Hawks in game one. Chris DelDebbio, Chris Sullivan and Dalton Ruch each had two hits in a losing effort for Hartford.
 
Anthony Gatto went 4-for-4 for the Retrievers, while Kevin LaChance was 4-for-6 including the game-winning single. Hunter Dolshun went 2-for-4 with a home run and three RBI as well for UMBC.
 
Denis Mikush collected the win out of the pen for UMBC, while Collin Ferguson was carded with the loss for the Hawks.

HOW THEY SCORED, GAME 1:
• UMBC got on the board in the bottom of the first with a solo home run from Gatto putting the home squad ahead 1-0.
• The Hawks responded in the top of the second, with Bengtson coming home on an RBI double from Chris Sullivan with one out to knot the score up at one.
• The Retrievers pulled back ahead in the bottom of the third, with Dolshun delivering a two-run shot to make it a 3-1 lead.
• The advantage was short-lived, as Hartford got two back in the top of the fourth, one on a Ruch single to plate Bengtson and the other on a sac fly by Joe Roberti that scored Sullivan to knot things up at 3-3.
• UMBC got a run back in the bottom of the fourth on an RBI single by Gatto that pushed the home squad back ahead 4-3.
• The score remained that way into the top of the seventh, when Erik Ostberg doubled home Chris DelDebbio and David MacKinnon to put the Hawks ahead 5-4.
• Doshun tied the game once more in the bottom of the seventh, bringing in a run on an RBI single.
• The Hawks got into trouble in the bottom of the ninth, with the bases loaded and one out, but Kyle Gauthier got a strikeout and a foulout to end the threat.
• Hartford took a lead in the top of the 10^th, with Billy Walker singling home Ruch to make it 6-5.
• UMBC came back with two in the bottom of the 10^th for the walk-off win.

GAME 2: HARTFORD 6, UMBC 4
Hartford rallied for three runs after getting down to its final out, with Ostberg's bases-loaded walk and Bengtson's two-run single providing the lift as the Hawks emerged victorious.
 
Billy Devito picked up the win in relief for the Hawks, while Ferguson bounced back from the loss in game one to save his league-leading eighth game of the season. Riley Stephenson picked up the defeat for UMBC.
 
MacKinnon went 3-for-3 with two runs scored in the victory, scoring what would be the winning run, while Ashton Bardzell also scored a pair of runs. A.J. Wright and Dolshun each went 2-for-3 in the loss for the Retrievers.
 
HOW THEY SCORED, GAME 2:
• After a Bardzell leadoff walk in the first, MacKinnon singled to send him to third and he came home on a DelDebbio sac fly to make it 1-0.
• In the third, the Hawks added two more, as Bardzell ripped a one-out double to center, MacKinnon sliced a double to right to plate him and a throwing error later plated MacKinnon for a 3-0 lead.
• Meanwhile, Hartford starter Brian Murphy rolled through the first four innings, facing one batter more than the minimum to keep the lead at 3-0.
• UMBC finally struck in the bottom of the fifth, plating a pair of runs on a two-run single by Raven Beeman to cut the advantage to 3-2.
• The Retrievers carried over the momentum into the sixth, as an RBI groundout knotted up the game and an RBI double to left center put them ahead 4-3.
• Hartford came up huge with its back against the wall, as with two outs in the seventh, Ostberg drew a bases-loaded walk and Bengtson delivered a two-run single to left to take a 6-4 lead.
• UMBC got the winning run to the plate in the bottom of the seventh, but the Hawks turned a game-ending 6-4-3 double play to clinch the contest.

UP NEXT:
Hartford and UMBC are slated to conclude their series on Saturday at 3 p.m., though there is inclement weather in the forecast for the Baltimore area. Live stats and video will be available on UMBCRetrievers.com, while the latest updates will also be provided on Twitter (@HartfordBASE).