JAMAICA, N.Y. — And now on to a make-or-break weekend!

For the final time this season, the Stony Brook softball team stepped out of conference play.

And the Seawolves got back on track with a 3-2 win against host St. John's on Tuesday as Brooke Dye delivered a tiebreaking RBI single in the seventh.

"I just felt good swinging the bat all day," Dye said. "I was just going up there trying to hit a ball hard. It didn't need to be anything special. Just a ball through the infield. And I was able to do that."

Now, the Seawolves turn their attention to their biggest games to date this season.

After disappointingly getting swept in a three-game series last weekend at UAlbany, Stony Brook dropped into a first-place tie with UMBC entering the final three-game series of the regular season.

That happens to pit Stony Brook and UMBC, which both are 7-4 in conference play.

Whichever team takes at least two of the three games in the series will claim the America East regular-season title and host the conference tournament next week.

The teams play a doubleheader on Friday at 1 p.m. — during which the Seawolves are sure to face Retrievers ace Courtney Coppersmith in the opener — followed by a potential winner-take-all game at noon on Saturday if they split the previous day.

It's potentially the final weekend playing at University Field for several players, and six will be honored before the series opener on Senior Day.

On Tuesday, Lindsey Osmer produced an RBI single and later scored on an error as Stony Brook took a 2-1 lead in the fourth. Starter Shelbi Denman then departed with that one-run advantage, and Dawn Bodrug surrendered the tying run in the bottom half.

Bodrug coasted from there, though, and earned the win in relief. She stranded the tying run in scoring position in the seventh.

Jourdin Hering went 3-for-4 with two steals.

As for this weekend's critical series, Dye said: "It's going to be a dogfight, but our team has got this. We're just going to have fun and do what we do and take two."