When the Maryland Terrapins and Liberty Flames took the field at Bob "Turtle" Smith Stadium, sunshine still bathed the first base grandstand and it felt like a perfect spring night to take in a baseball game. When the squads left the field nearly three hours and 45 minutes later, the sun had long since set, the temperature had fallen by about eight degrees and the Terps had held on for their third straight win holding off the Flames by a final of 10-9 that evened Maryland's season record at 10-10.
No hint of things to come
Although both starting pitchers - Tayler Stiles for Maryland and Jack DeGroat for Liberty - struggled with their control, each pitched out of some minor early scrapes and the first two innings breezed by fairly quickly.