BROOKLYN, N.Y. - The LIU Brooklyn softball team pounded out 11 hits, including six of the extra-base variety, in a wild 14-13 victory over America East-leading Stony Brook on Thursday afternoon at LIU Field.

Three Blackbirds hit home runs, including a grand slam from junior Celinna Cosio in the second inning. Sophomore Kylie Mulholland and freshman Victoria Zamora also homered for LIU, who concludes the regular season with a critical Northeast Conference doubleheader against Central Connecticut on Saturday, May 2.

After scoring 18 runs in two wins against Mount St. Mary's on Sunday and nine more against Rutgers on Tuesday, LIU Brooklyn continued its scorching-hot hitting in the bottom of the first. Junior Whitney West lined a single to left field and stole second base. Graduate student Lauren Morizi hit a hard ground ball that tipped the glove of Stony Brook starter Jane Sallen and went for an infield hit to put runners on the corners with nobody out.

Zamora was hit by a pitch to load the bases for senior Nicole Archer, who lined a single into centerfield to put the score at 1-0. A walk from Mulholland two batters later pushed the lead to 2-0 heading into the top of the second.

The Seawolves cut LIU's lead to 2-1 but left the bases loaded in the second, before the Blackbirds broke out for five runs to take a commanding 7-1 lead in the bottom half. A double by senior Madison Green, a walk from Morizi and another hit by pitch from Zamora loaded the bases for junior Ashley Sandoval-Colon. Sandoval-Colon had a nice at-bat and worked a walk to force home a run and bump the lead to 3-1.

Cosio stepped to the plate and lined the first pitch she saw from Sallen over the centerfield wall for a grand slam that pushed the margin to six heading to the third. Single runs in the third and fourth innings from Stony Brook cut LIU's lead to 7-3, before another outburst from the Blackbirds in the bottom of the fourth.

Facing her former high school teammate, Maddy Neales, Zamora hit a towering home run over the left-field wall to increase the Blackbirds advantage to 8-3. The hit was the fifth for Zamora in her last six at-bats dating back to Sunday, with three of those hits leaving the yard.

A walk from Sandoval-Colon and a hit by pitch of Cosio set the stage for Mulholland, who drilled a three-run shot to left-centerfield and gave LIU Brooklyn a commanding 11-3 lead. An unearned run inched the Blackbirds ahead even further, and put them three outs away from closing the game out in the fifth.

But the Seawolves responded with three runs in the fifth and five more in the sixth to cut their deficit to just one, 12-11. Melissa Phelan, who went 4-for-4 on the day, delivered the big blow with a three-run home run in the sixth.

With momentum shifted, junior Ariana Lopez worked a one-out walk and sophomore Karlie Brady got ahold of a 0-1 offering from Neales and lined a triple over the head of the centerfielder to tack on another run for the Blackbirds. A sacrifice fly from sophomore Kayla Gloady put the margin at 14-11 heading to the top of the seventh.

Stony Brook would not go down without a fight, however, scoring twice in the seventh and putting the potential tying run on third base with just one out. But sophomore Shelley Procter induced a pair of groundouts to end the high-scoring affair.