CATONSVILLE, Md. – The Towson University baseball team (8-27) rode a masterful start by Dallas Repine, including seven no-hit innings, to take down UMBC (16-17) 7-2 on Tuesday night in Catonsville.
 
With the lineup notching a season-high 17 hits and scoring multiple times in the first, second and fifth, Repine (1-4) threw eight scoreless frames in his top start of the season. 
 
Towson has won its last two mid-week games, having beaten George Mason last Wednesday, and has victories in four of its last five contests.
 
Key Stats:

• Repine's longest outing of his collegiate career encompassed eight innings, one hit, two walks and seven strikeouts.  Matt Watters finished the game by pitching the ninth.
• Towson out-hit UMBC 17-3, including seven Tigers earning multi-hit performances.  Javon Fields went 3-for-5 in the leadoff spot, adding a hit-by-pitch and two RBI, plus Noah Cabrera was 3-for-5 with a double and an RBI.  Trent Gast-Woodard hit his second home run of the season in a 2-for-4 day, scoring twice plus having a walk.  Nick Brown, Tom Flacco, Richard Miller and Zach Piazza all batted 2-for-5.
• For UMBC, Reid Celata (1-1) got the loss, allowing three runs in 1+ innings.  Andres Machado went 1-for-2 with a walk.

How it Happened:

• Into the first, Towson got two runners on, via hits from Javon Fields and Zach Piazza, with one out.  Noah Cabrera muscled a single to left, bringing in a run.  Two batters later, Richard Miller lined a ground-rule double down the right field line for an RBI to push Towson up 2-0.
• Next inning, Trent Gast-Woodard led off and sent a ball over the left-center field wall.  Towson was not finished, as Dirk Masters walked with two outs and got to second on a wild pitch.  Piazza punched a single up the middle, bringing in Masters for a 4-0 advantage.
• As Dallas Repine continued to go 1-2-3 on the bottom half, Towson added more runs in the sixth.  Loading the bases with one out, Fields lined a single up the middle to bring in a pair of runners.  Later, Piazza grounded into a fielder's choice to bring in another run, putting the score at 7-0 Tigers.
• In the bottom of the sixth, UMBC got the bases loaded without a hit with one out.  On a fly ball down the right field line, Cabrera made a tremendous underhanded catch while running.  Then, he threw a strike to second to double up a runner and prevent a run from scoring, preserving the no-hitter through six.
• Repine took his no-hitter into the eighth, when the first UMBC batter of the inning got a single.  Repine induced a double play to go eight innings scoreless, leaving the game after that frame.
• UMBC scored twice in the ninth, but Towson held for the 7-2 victory.

Inside the Numbers:

• Dallas Repine's no-hitter was broken up by the first batter in the top of the eighth with a single to left by Andres Machado. Repine is the second Towson pitcher, along with Josh Seils, to have a start with at least eight innings thrown this season.
• Towson's 17 hits surpassed the previous season-high of 15, which the Tigers had twice, including last game at Hofstra on April 14^th.
• Towson's starting pitcher has been the winner in all four victories in the last five games played.
• Javon Fields has had at least two hits and two RBI each in three of his last four contests.
• Noah Cabrera and Zach Piazza have multi-hit in five of their last eight games.

Up Next:
Towson is back at Schuerholz Park for the start of an eight-game homestand, hosting Coppin State tomorrow at 3 p.m.
 
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