COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- The Marist baseball team was defeated at Maryland by a score of 9-3 on Tuesday. The teams were originally scheduled to play a doubleheader, but inclement weather limited the teams to a single game.

The Red Foxes scored two in the first, followed by the Terrapins scoring once in the home half. Maryland tied the game in the sixth, Marist grabbed the lead back in the seventh, and then the Terrapins broke the game open in the bottom of the frame. Maryland's seventh inning included three hits, three hit batsmen and one Marist error.

Maryland outhit Marist, 12-10. A trio of Red Foxes had two-hit games: senior shortstop Zach Shank (Lititz, Pa.), senior first baseman Mike Orefice (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.) and sophomore left fielder Steve Laurino (Carle Place, N.Y.). Orefice and Laurino both had doubles, while Orefice and Shank each drew two walks apiece. Shank added two runs scored and an RBI.

Sophomore lefty Rich Vrana (Lindenhurst, N.Y.) started and allowed just one unearned run in four innings. Freshman right-hander Erik Bauer (Putnam Valley, N.Y.), who was charged with four runs in the seventh, took the loss and is 0-1.

Reliever Brandon Casas pitched 1.1 innings to earn the win for Maryland, and is 1-0. Right fielder Jordan Hagel led Maryland offensively by going 3-for-5 with two runs scored and two RBIs.

Marist fell to 4-7; Maryland is now 11-5 under head coach John Szefc, who led the Red Foxes to four NCAA Tournament appearances in his tenure from 1996-2002.

Marist will return to action this Friday at St. Joseph's. First pitch is scheduled for 3 p.m. It is the first of three games the Red Foxes will play in the Philadelphia area this weekend, as they will they take on Villanova on Saturday and La Salle on Sunday.

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