STONY BROOK, N.Y. — The Stony Brook softball team will head to Baltimore for next week's America East tournament.

In a winner-take-all game to determine the conference champion on Saturday, UMBC defeated the Seawolves 4-1 to claim the league's regular-season crown.

Stony Brook had been one out from clinching the title in Game 2 on Friday, but the Retrievers rallied with three seventh-inning runs for the win to remain alive.

The Seawolves will be the No. 3 seed and play second-seeded UAlbany on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. at UMBC on Day 1 of the conference tourney.

In Saturday's decisive game, UMBC ace Courtney Coppersmith held Stony Brook hitless until a two-out single in the fifth by Julianna Sanzone. 

Trailing 4-0, Jourdin Hering got the Seawolves on the scoreboard with a solo homer an inning later.

Dawn Bodrug surrendered four runs (three earned).