After homering twice in Tuesday’s loss, Kevin Smith went deep twice again Wednesday to lead the Maryland offense in a 10-6 win over UNC Wilmington. The victory secured the Terps (13-7) a split of the tw0-game series and gave them their first road win of the season.

Marty Costes got the Terps on the board early with a two-run homer in the first, and Smith added a third run in the frame with an RBI groundout. After the Seahawks cut the lead to one run with a two-run third, Maryland responded with a four-run fifth inning. Nick Dunn and Costes led off the frame with back-to-back singles, and a walk to Will Watson loaded the bases for Madison Nickens. He hit a sacrifice fly to center to score Dunn, and one batter later, Smith’s fourth homer of the season brought three more home.

The Terps were robbed of a chance to add on further in the seventh, when Seahawks center fielder Robbie Thorburn robbed Watson of a potential two-run homer, and doubled Costes off first to squander Maryland’s scoring opportunity. An inning later, however, Smith hit an 0-2 pitch over the left field fence for his second homer of the afternoon, giving Maryland an 8-3 lead.

“I just think he’s playing with confidence,” Coach John Szefc said. “The more at bats he accrues, the more comfortable he gets, the more productive he gets.”

Over the two games in Wilmington, Smith collected four hits – all home runs – seven RBIs.

“I was seeing pitches a little better this weekend, I worked a little bit with coach Vaughn.” Smith said “The big thing is not trying to hit singles anymore, really trying to get a ball [I] can drive and do some damage in the gaps with.”

The Terps added two more insurance runs in the ninth on throwing errors before sealing the victory in the bottom half of the frame.

Meanwhile, Maryland’s starter struggled early in the game for the second straight day, as left-hander Tayler Stiles failed to complete three innings. He worked out of a jam in the first and cruised through the second before again running into trouble in the third inning. After surrendering two runs on a single and a two-run homer, he loaded the bases on a hit batsman, a single and a walk. Stiles got the second out of the inning on a pop out, but then was pulled in favor of Ryan Hill, who escaped the jam with a strikeout. Hill (2-0) worked 3.1 scoreless innings of relief with six strikeouts to pick up his second win of the season.

“Whatever they want me to come in and do I’ll do it.” Hill said after the game. “I know my job is to get the defense off the field and get their bats going like they did today.” He said his cutter and curveball were “really working well” today and credited those pitches for his success.

Jared Price relieved Hill in the seventh, allowing a run after Casey Golden singled and ultimately came around to score on a double play. He let up another run in the eighth in the form of a Daniel Stack RBI double before Maryland brought in Andrew Miller to end the threat.

Miller was shaky in the bottom of the ninth, letting up his first two runs of the season on a Nick Feight home run as the Seahawks cut the Terps’ lead to 10-6. Ryan Selmer came in and picked up two strikeouts to close out Maryland’s first road victory and 12th win in 14 contests.

“I thought it was a good answer from our guys today,” Coach Szefc said of his team that lost 10-7 yesterday. “Today was just a matter of minimizing damage and stranding runners. We didn’t give up a big inning the whole day, that was the difference in the game.”

The team combined for 17 runs in two games, keyed by Smith and Costes, who collected five hits and hit two home runs in the series.

Maryland’s offense will look to stay hot this weekend. They will come home to play their first Big Ten game of the season against no. 18 Michigan on Friday at 6:30 p.m.

After three innings of play, Maryland trailed 8-0. But, despite clawing back to bring the tying run to the plate in the eighth frame, the Terps ultimately fell to UNC-Wilmington 10-7.

Reliever Mike Rescigno’s first career start didn’t go as planned. In the first inning, the Seahawks sent 10 men to the plate—scoring five—on three hits and two Maryland errors, one from Rescigno and one by Nick Dunn at second base.

Casey Golden singled and advanced on a failed pickoff attempt. After Rescigno walked the next batter, Nick Feight hit a chopper that bounced over the head of A.J. Lee at third for an RBI double. Then, Mason Berne then hit a ground ball that second baseman Nick Dunn was unable to field cleanly, allowing Golden to score. After Rescigno hit the next batter, Daniel Stack singled to center field scoring Feight and Berne. The first out of the inning was a Clark Cota strikeout; however, the Seahawks weren’t done yet as a sacrifice fly brought in the fifth and final run of the inning.

UNC Wilmington starter Zarion Sharpe, who was also making his first career start, was stellar in four innings of work. He struck out five and walked none, allowing just two hits—both to Marty Costes, who hit his third home run of the season in the fourth inning.

A Marty Costes solo shot opened scoring for Maryland in the fourth inning.

The Terps continued to battle back, putting up three runs in the top of the fifth thanks to a Kevin Smith solo blast, a passed ball, and a Zach Jancarski RBI double.

During the bottom of the inning, outfielder-turned-pitcher Jamal Wade did something no Maryland pitcher has done since 2014. Wade got the first batter of the inning Kennard McDowell to swing and miss on an 0-2 count. McDowell reached first, however, as the ball got away from catcher Danny Maynard. After balking the runner to second and allowing an RBI single to Casey Golden, Wade struck out the next three batters. This was the first four strikeout inning by a Terp since Jared Price accomplished the feat in April of 2014.

After Maryland got another run on Kevin Smith’s second homer of the game in the top half of the sixth, Wade struck out the side. Wade struck out seven total batters, including the final six he faced.

Another Seahawks run to score in the bottom of the seventh on the Terps’ fourth wild pitch of the game. Maryland scored two in the eighth after Kevin Smith was hit by a pitch, advanced to second on a Nick Cieri walk, advanced to third on a wild pitch, and scored on a passed ball. Cieri then scored on Zach Jancarski’s RBI triple.

Freshman LHP Jon Dignazio made his first appearance of his collegiate career in the bottom of the eighth, setting the Seahawks down in order.

In the top of the ninth, Danny Maynard tripled with one out, however a Madison Nickens strikeout and a Kevin Smith flyout ended the threat and the game for the Terps.

Overall, the Terps used six pitchers and let up a combined ten runs, but only six were earned.

Considering they went down 8-0 in the third inning, the Terps showed resilience and gave an admiral effort in their attempt to come back.

Marty Costes and Kevin Smith led the offense with Costes collecting three hits and Smith homering twice.

With the loss, the Terps fall to 12-7 on the season. It is just their second loss in thirteen games. Maryland will look to split the two game set tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. Neither team has announced a starter for tomorrow’s game yet.