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THE RETRIEVER April 5, 2005 23 Sports RETRIEVER BATS COME ALIVE, This Week in Sports CRUSH NAVY ON THE ROAD Baseball AMIT CHAND The Retrievers will play the Terps at College Park on Wednesday Retriever Staff Writer added the fifth run for the Dawgs. became UMBC’s all-time leader in the 6th in a 7:00 p.m. evening game, followed this weekend by a Pavlis would coast through innings pitched, moving past Tom two-day event UMBC will host against Stony Brook. Next Tuesday the game until the seventh inning, Bloom. Butkiewicz is now six and Wednesday will see Men’s Baseball hosting Navy and UMBC rode the strong pitch- when Navy took advantage of a strikeouts away from becoming Georgetown, and UMBC will play the University of Maine on the ing of junior Jon Pavlis to an 11-2 throwing error by shortstop Russo UMBC’s all-time leader in that 16th. victory over the Navy Midshipmen and scored two runs while strand- category. He currently has a team on Thursday. The win at Navy ing one runner on base. high 20 strikeouts. The 6’3” right- snapped a two game losing streak UMBC was not done scoring, handed pitcher will have to lower Softball for the Retrievers (5-12). adding two runs in the eight and his 7.01 ERA to help the team win Softball fans will have multiple opportunities to watch their favorite Pavlis (2-1) went eight ninth innings for good measure. A some games this year. team in action this month, as UMBC will play host to various innings, giving up just two triple by Russo in the eight The Dawgs are currently in teams through April 21st. This Wednesday the 6th, the Retrievers unearned runs on six hits with six brought home Laddbush to make the midst of a five game road will play George Mason, and will face Vermont over the weekend. strikeouts and only one walk. The it an 8-0 game. The Dawgs had a swing. Their next home game will The following week, UMBC will compete against Binghamton on right-handed pitcher was coming chance to do more damage, but be UMBC’s conference opener Wednesday the 13th and Howard on the 15th. The Lady Dawgs off a complete game win in his last ended up leaving three runners on against Stony Brook on April 9 at will host Hartford that weekend, and will play Delaware on the outing. He leads the team in total base. A double by Rinaldi in the 3:30. 21st. innings pitched this season with top of the ninth brought home In order to improve their for- 33.1. two runners. The New Jersey tunes this season UMBC will have The Retriever offense explod- native currently leads the team in to start playing more consistently. ed for five runs in the fifth inning, both batting average (.395) as well They have yet to put together a Men’s Lacrosse Towson will host the Men’s Lacrosse team in a 7:30 p.m. game this to go up 7-0. Singles by sopho- as slugging percentage (.512). longer win streak than two. The Tuesday the 5th. UMBC will host Quinnipiac this Saturday the mores Alex Laddbush and Tom In action the previous day, team’s pitching needs to be better; 9th, and will host games next week against Binghamton on Rinaldi and by freshman Steve UMBC lost at George Washington they are tied for giving up the Wednesday the 13th and North Carolina on the 16th. Russo in the fifth inning loaded by a score of 5-1. The Retriever most homeruns in the Am East the bases with one out. UMBC offense was unable to get anything and have the third worst ERA. worked the Midshipmen pitchers going as the Colonials used three Women’s Lacrosse for four walks, which brought in pitchers en route to an easy win. Amit Chand is a staff writer for Women’s Lacrosse has four away games scheduled in the next two four runs. An RBI single by junior Senior Eric Butkiewicz (1-4) the Retriever. He can be reached for weeks, facing Johns Hopkins this Wednesday and Boston second baseman Ian Carman was saddled with the loss but comment at [email protected]. University the following Saturday the 9th. On Friday the 15th UMBC will play Albany, and will face Vermont on the 17th. Box score: UMBC players’ hitting stats from the Navy game. Men’s & Women’s Track & Field Since heavy rains flooded College Park’s fields and forced the can- cellation of the Maryland Invitational last weekend, UMBC’s next meet will be at the Duke Invitational this weekend starting on Friday. The Retrievers will then attend the Virginia Invitational in Charlottesville on Saturday the 16th. Men’s Tennis The last two home games of the Men’s 2005 season will be against George Mason this Tuesday the 5th and Villanova the following Thursday the 7th. The following weekend starting on April 16th, the Retrievers will face Binghamton and Boston University. Women’s Tennis Women’s Tennis will host UNC Wilmington this weekend on Sunday the 10th, followed next week by home matches against Loyola on the 12th and American on the 14th. PASSERO THROWS COMPLETE GAME SHUTOUT AMIT CHAND another run before the inning’s seven homeruns this season. be getting better. UMBC lost eight ters play for UMBC. They have the Retriever Staff Writer end. UMBC had a doubleheader of their first nine games of the sea- top five players in runs scored and The Retrievers added two against the Canisius Griffs on son but have since righted the ship. runs batted in. And in the most The Lady Retrievers (15-15-1) more runs in the fourth inning. Wednesday, in which they won the Playing at home proved to be important of all statistical cate- defeated the Morgan State Bears on Ward reached home on another first game 6-2 and dropped the sec- just what the doctor ordered for gories, UMBC has won 14 of their Thursday, 6-0. Freshman Katie Jo sacrifice grounder. Junior Ashlea ond 5-3. Senior third baseman them; they are 10-4-1 on the last 22 games. Instead of getting Passero came up big in her first Underwood would score the other Kristie Pickeral went 5-for-8, with UMBC softball field. discouraged by their sub-par show- career start, giving up eight hits and run of the inning with the RBI three runs scored and four RBI for UMBC’s softball team domi- ing at the Seahawk Classic, the no runs in seven innings of work. going to Griffith again. the day. She had a 4-for-4 perform- nates nearly every statistical catego- Lady Retrievers have stepped up Sophomore Reilly Ward scored With runners at first and third ance in the opening game. ry in the Am East. Their batting their game and come back to play the first of the game in the bottom base, Ward singled to leftfield The Lady Retrievers have average of .291 is tops, as are their some exceptional softball at home. of the second inning when she allowing both runners to score. proven to be a great offensive team 25 homeruns and 133 RBI. The walked and scored on a sacrifice Ward would end the day with two this season. After a slow start to the Lady Retrievers own the top four Amit Chand is a staff writer for groundout by junior Jessica runs scored, one RBI and two hits. season they have reeled in a seven- spots in total hits in the conference. the Retriever. He can be reached for Griffith. UMBC would score She leads the America East with game winning streak and appear to Three of the four best homerun hit- comment at [email protected]..