In the Colonials’ first 11 games, they scored 43 runs.

In GW’s last four games, the team scored 41 runs, winning three of them to improve to 6-9 on the season – despite giving up 24 runs in that span.

Last Wednesday, GW defeated regional-powerhouse Maryland 19-10 in College Park.

Over the weekend, they then took two-of-three from visiting Monmouth. (And no, there were no noteworthy bench antics reported, although the Colonials could see those hijinks this coming week in the men’s basketball NIT.)

Out of the 24 runs allowed, only six of them came courtesy of the bullpen, a big improvement over the recent woes.

Here’s a recap of GW’s game against Maryland and series against Monmouth.

Maryland, 19-10:

Almost as good as 2008: GW scored the most runs, 19, since 2008 – when they defeated Saint Louis 21-5. The team’s 20 hits were also a season-high.

The Colonials were down 2-0 after the first but then rallied for five in the second. Sophomore Robbie Metz broke out of his early-season slump with an RBI single to start GW off. Metz would go 2-for-5 on the day and bat .444 in the four games.

Junior Shane Sweeney earned the midweek start but only lasted 1.2 innings, yielding six runs on seven hits. He exited in the second inning, when the Terps would retake the lead. Junior Jordan Sheinkop would earn the victory in relief, going 2.1 innings and allowing two runs on three hits while striking out two.

GW would put up a crooked number in three straight innings with four runs in the fourth, two in the fifth and four in the sixth.

Junior Kevin Mahala would lead the team, going 4-for-6 at the plate with three doubles, one run scored, one stolen base and a grand total of six RBI. Sophomore Mark Osis would follow closely, finishing 3-for-6 on the day, with one triple, two runs scored and five RBI.

Junior Joey Bartosic would tack on three hits with three runs scored and two RBI; sophomore Matt Cosentino would collect four hits, driving in three and scoring three; sophomore Brandon Chapman also had himself a multi-hit game.

Monmouth Series: GW took 2-of-3 from the Hawks, earning the team’s first series win of the season.

Game 1: 14-5

Every player in the starting lineup collected a hit, including 11 hits from the first four batters.

Tablesetter Bartosic had himself another dandy of a game – going 4-of-5 with four runs scored and two doubles.

GW would drive across seven runs in the fourth inning on seven hits, capitalized by a two-RBI double by junior Bobby Campbell.

Senior Bobby LeWarne started off the series. He pitched 5.2 innings, giving up five runs on six hits and five walks while striking out four. The Iowa native would throw 100 pitches on his way to his second win on the season.

The bullpen would close it out, allowing one hit in 3.1 innings. Senior Luke Olson would strand one, in relief for LeWarne, as he struck out the one batter he faced in the sixth on three pitches. He then pitched a scoreless seventh. Senior Randy Dalrymple would cruise through the final two innings on 25 pitches with no hits.

Game 2: 1-4

Metz did not have his good stuff, lasting two innings while allowing four runs on six hits. Monmouth scored three in the first and then added another run in the second.

Sweeney replaced Metz on the mound in the third and lasted the rest of the game. He pitched seven innings, surrendering a single hit and one walk on 86 pitches. This came on two full days rest, after pitching Wednesday.

Despite the strong relief outing by Sweeney, GW could not scrape more than one run in the third against the Monmouth pitching. The Colonials would leave 12 on base during the game, including leaving them loaded in the seventh with no outs before strikeouts on three pitches by both Osis and Mahala, followed by a groundout by Campbell. They then advanced runners to second and third with one out in the eighth, but could not be driven in by junior Eli Kashi and Bartosic.

Game 3: 7-5

GW found a strong eight-plus innings from senior Jacob Williams. A week after being pulled from his start against Cal State University Northridge in the eighth inning after 92 pitches and two runs allowed – only to watch his team lose the game 9-3 – head coach Gregg Ritchie left Williams in for 115 pitches.

He was pulled in the ninth, with a 7-1 lead, for freshman Jordan Friedman who allowed two earned runs of his own to score in 0.1 innings. He was relieved by junior Eddie Muhl who collected the final two outs of the game, though not before walking in one of Friedman’s runs, allowing another to come in on a single to center and a final and fifth run on a sacrifice fly to center field.

Mahala continued his hot hitting, going 3-for-5 with two runs scored and one RBI. He is now batting .369 on the season, behind junior Andrew Selby (.380) and team-leader Osis (.421). Chapman went 4-for-5 with two RBI, including the final run driven in for GW back in the fourth inning.

Coming Up: During spring break, GW will host the New Jersey Institute of Technology (6-8) Tuesday at 3 p.m. and host Yale (0-7-1) Wednesday at 2 p.m. Then the Colonials will travel to play Charleston Southern (8-8) who swept Atlantic 10 rival Massachusetts earlier this month.