Baltimore, Md. -- Alyssa Derrick blasted a pair of home runs and Meghan Royle added three hits as the University of Maine softball team improved to 9-1 in America East play after a 7-1 win at UMBC on Saturday afternoon.

The second game of the doubleheader was canceled due to weather and will not be made up.

Derrick remains on a tear as she has homered in four of her last five games and currently carries an eight-game hit streak. Derrick has driven in at least one run in nine of her last 10 outings.

The Black Bears, who notched 11 hits in the victory, ran their win streak to six in a row, and 12 of their last 13.

Rachel Harvey went 1-for-4 with an RBI to stretch her hit streak out to 12-straight while Felicia Lennon added a pair of hits and two runs.

In the circle, Molly Flowers picked up her fifth win of the year after going 6.1 innings and giving up one run on four hits with eight strikeouts. Annie Kennedy closed out the game, giving up one hit in 0.2 innings of work.

Maine got off to a hot start, pushing across three runs in the top of the first. Leonard started the game with a double before advancing to third on a wild pitch. After a walk from Rachel Carlson, Harvey singled through the left side, scoring Leonard. The base runners moved up on another wild pitch before Carlson came in on Derrick's groundout. Harvey was erased at the plate on a fielder's choice bunt from Lennon however, Lennon would soon score on an RBI double by Royle.

The Black Bears added single runs in the second and third innings. Kristen Niland started the second frame with a leadoff double and scored off from a throwing error which stemmed from a sacrifice bunt by Laurine German.

Derrick started the third inning with her first of two homers, this one clearing the wall in left.

Derrick hit her league-leading 12th home run of the spring in the top of the seventh, this time a two-run shot to left. Maine would lead 7-0 heading to the bottom of the seventh.

UMBC managed to get on the scoreboard with a single run in the home half of the seventh but would not get any closer as Maine took the series finale, 7-1.

The Black Bears continue America East play when they return home on Wednesday to host UMass Lowell for a single game at 3 p.m.

-UMaine-