STONY BROOK, N.Y. — The Stony Brook baseball team dodged drizzles to charge into the finals of the America East Baseball Tournament on Saturday afternoon.

The Seawolves erupted for six second-inning runs, all with two out, and went on to rout Maine, 15-9, in an elimination game at Joe Nathan Field.

Later Saturday, Stony Brook began its championship-round game against NJIT, but it was suspended due to rain with the Seawolves leading 1-0 in the bottom of the third and the bases loaded via walks with one out. John LaRocca had stolen home in the first inning.

The Seawolves will need to win the resumption of the suspended game, and a winner-take-all game against the Highlanders, on Sunday to return to the NCAA Tournament.

In the earlier game against Maine, the 15 runs and 16 hits were the most by the Seawolves in the America East Tournament since posting 16 runs and 19 hits against UMBC on May 23, 2015.

Paulsen went 4-for-4 with three RBIs and three runs scored.

A day earlier, he had produced a game-tying RBI single in a three-run ninth in a comeback win against UAlbany in another elimination game.

Maine had sent the regular-season-champion Seawolves into the losers bracket on the opening day of the tourney behind a dominating performance from America East Pitcher of the Year Nicholas Sinacola.

Trailing 3-0 in the rematch against the Black Bears on Saturday, Brett Paulsen's clutch two-out, two-run single to right field plated Evan Fox and Stanton Leuthner to get Stony Brook on the scoreboard. It also opened the floodgates . John LaRocca, Evan Giordano, Chris Hamilton and John Tuccillo followed with consecutive RBI singles as Stony Brook pounded out five straight two-out hits for a 6-3 lead.

Giordano, Hamilton, Tuccillo and Derek Yalon — who entered for Evan Fox midway through the game — each drove in two runs.

In his final career home start, Brian Herrmann kept Maine in check after a three-run second inning until things got interesting for the Seawolves in the eighth. Four errors led to six unearned runs with two out as Maine clawed within 13-9.