Emmitsburg, Md. (April 24, 2007)--Mount St. Mary's scored 11 runs in the bottom of the first en route to a 22-7 win over Maryland-Baltimore County on Tuesday afternoon at Straw Family Stadium on campus. The Mount belted five home runs in the game, including back-to-back-to-back homers in the bottom of the first. The Mount has won four straight games to improve to 21-16 on the season.

The Mount broke the game open early as the first six batters reached base safely. Drew Counselman, Ivor Hodgson and Josh Vittek each singled to load the bases to start the inning. Eric Smith followed with a two-run single to left field and Ryan Murray blasted a three-run homer to right field to give the Mount a 5-0 advantage. Joe Hayes followed with a double to right center field. Matt Trusch moved Hayes to third with a fly out to right, and Mike Gioioso reached on an error to plate Hayes. Matt Eiden then singled to put runners on first and second and send Counselman to the plate.

Counselman connected for a three-run homer to left field to give the Mount a 9-0 lead. Hodgson and Vittek each hit solo home runs to give the Mount back-to-back-to-back homers and an 11-0 lead after one inning of play. The Mount sent 16 batters to the plate in the inning, scoring 11 times on 11 hits as the team was batting for 33 minutes.

The Retrievers (9-26) scored a pair of runs in the top of the third and cut the Mount's lead to 12-5 on Will Delawter's three-run homer to right-center field in the top of the fifth. The Mount answered Delawter's home run by scoring seven times in the bottom of the inning to take a commanding 19-5 advantage.

In the bottom of the fifth, Hodgson had an RBI double and Smith an RBI single to start the scoring. Matt Trusch added a sacrifice fly before Stephan Fay blasted a pinch-hit three run home run to center field. Counselman rounded out the scoring in the inning with an RBI triple.

Hodgson paced the Mount, going 4-for-6 with four runs scored, two doubles, a home run and two RBI. Counselman, who came within a double of hitting for the cycle, was 3-for-5 with four runs scored and four RBI in the game. Vittek added three hits and two RBI while Smith chipped in three hits and three RBI. Murray, who belted his Northeast Conference-leading 10th home run, was 2-for-3 with three runs scored and three RBI to move his average to a team-leading .390 on the year.

Freshman Max Brittenham earned his first collegiate win in his third start of the season, striking out four while allowing five runs in five innings of work.

Delawter was 3-for-5 with a home runs and four RBI to pace UMBC while Scott Peddicord added three hits in the loss.

The Mount returns to action tomorrow night with a 7:00 p.m. game at Georgetown.

Game Notes...The Mount had season highs in runs (22), hits (23) and home runs (5) in the game. The 22 runs scored were the most by a Mount team since a 27-10 win over Maryland-Eastern Shore on Feb. 29, 2004...Mount St. Mary's has won nine of the past 10 games and is 18-7 over the past 25 contests...The Mount is now 9-25 all-time vs. UMBC since moving to NCAA Division I in 1989...The win snapped a four-game losing streak to the Retrievers...Eleven different players had a hit for the Mount in the game, including all nine starters.