Friday presented a pitchers’ duel between Maryland baseball junior right-hander Jason Savacool and UCF redshirt senior right-hander Ruddy Gomez.
Maryland got out to an early lead in the first inning, and UCF took the lead in the third. Both teams failed to do much offensively, as Savacool racked up 10 strikeouts in his six innings of work and Gomez held Maryland to two runs in eight innings pitched.
In the eighth, with UCF leading 3-2, Maryland redshirt junior Nigel Belgrave came in for his second inning of relief. Belgrave plunked redshirt senior second baseman Tom Josten to lead off the inning, and a misplayed pickoff attempt moved him to second.