BALTIMORE — Lightning ended the Stony Brook baseball team's weekend prematurely, but the Seawolves nonetheless clinched America East's regular-season title.

The Seawolves beat UMBC, 6-0, in a weather-shortened Game 1 on Sunday as Brian Herrmann was credited with a two-hit shutout in five innings.

The nightcap then was scrapped.

Although a series at Binghamton next weekend remains, Stony Brook already has secured home-field advantage for the May 26-30 conference tournament, which will be played at Joe Nathan Field.

The Seawolves earned their second straight regular-season title and sixth since 2011.

In what turned out to be the clincher on Sunday, Shane Paradine opened the scoring with a run-scoring groundout that plated Evan Giordano in the first. Stony Brook then put up five runs in the third, highlighted by John Tuccillo's two-run single, John LaRocca's RBI double and Stanton Leuthner's run-scoring single.

Herrmann was credited with his first career shutout.

"I'm extremely proud of our players, coaches, academic support, athletic training and medical staff, equipment and facilities staff, and especially our athletic and university administration, which did all that was necessary over this challenging year to allow us the opportunity to earn this regular-season championship," coach Matt Senk said. "We are looking forward to finishing the regular season strong and then hosting what will be a very competitive conference tournament amongst ourselves and three outstanding America East teams yet to be determined."