COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Maryland defeated Mount St. Mary's 5-1 in the final game of the Maryland Softball College Park Invitational on Sunday.

Ashley Lodato (Brick, N.J./Ranney) paced the Mount (2-12) with a hit and a run scored while Liz Christiansen (Etters, Pa./Red Land) notched a double in the loss.

Michelle Takeda powered the Terrapins (13-11) with a 3-for-3 performance, two RBIs and a run scored and Niki Lau added two hits and two RBIs in the winning effort.

Maryland erased a 1-0 deficit and scored the final five runs to go on for its eighth win against the Mountaineers.

Trailing 1-0 in the second, the Terrapins tied the game at one on a Takeda run-scoring double to right center.

Takeda then gave Maryland the lead for good on a homer to left field in the fourth. Jennifer Anderson scored on an error and then Lau capped a three-run rally with an RBI double to right field for a 4-1 advantage.

Lau added a run in the sixth to seal the victory with a run-scoring double to left center for a 5-1 lead.

Mount St. Mary's got the scoring started on the afternoon with a run in the second to grab a 1-0 margin. Lodato singled up the middle and scored when Kristin Fusco (Laurel, Md./St. Vincent Palotti) reached on an error. With runners at the corners, the Terrapins ended the threat with a strikeout.

The Mount also put runners on base in the first, fourth and fifth. In the first, Taylor Beebe (Olympia, Wash./Capital) walked to open the game and moved to second on Amanda Burk's (Bristow, Va./Stonewall Jackson) groundout before Maryland got out of the jam with a ground out to third base.

Christiansen doubled to left center with one out in the fourth. The freshman moved to third on Lodato's fly out to right, but was left stranded on third. Fusco then started the fifth with a walk, but a strikeout, fielder's choice and strikeout ended the threat.

Mount St. Mary's returns to action on Tuesday at UMBC. Game time is 2 p.m.