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College Park, MD -- Dan Pirillo sent ace Joshua Loeschorn to the mound to begin the third Division I NCAA Regional in program history. Unfortunately for the LIU baseball team, things quickly got off track.

Host Maryland defeated the Sharks, 23-2, on Friday night at sold-out Bob "Turtle" Smith Stadium.

LIU (37-20) will have to quickly regroup. The Sharks face second-seeded Wake Forest in an elimination game on Saturday at 1 p.m. The Demon Deacons fell to third-seeded UConn, 8-7, in their opener. Jalen Wade will oppose Wake left-hander Josh Hartle.

Loeschorn, named a Collegiate Baseball second-team All-American on Thursday, departed after 1 2/3 innings. He was charged with nine runs (one earned) on five hits and three walks — with two errors in the inning committed by the ace.

"Josh, I felt, was pitching behind all game," Pirillo said. "He couldn't get ahead. He couldn't get his second pitch over for a strike. He's a guy who has been big for us all year — one of the best pitchers in our conference and even the Northeast. He just didn't have his stuff today. That's a guy I'd go to battle with every day, as much as he's done for this program and us this year."

Loeschorn had a heavy workload last weekend at the Northeast Conference Tournament. He threw 121 pitches against Fairleigh Dickinson in the tourney opener, then came back two days later for a 13th-inning save against Bryant.

Pirillo didn't want to completely ascribe Loeschorn's workload last weekend to Friday night's performance against the Terps, but couldn't dismiss it, either.

"You can't rule that out," Pirillo said. "That's something he's just not used to doing. He's used to pitching one day a week, getting the full rest and having a bullpen session. I think anything out of the ordinary you can throw a red flag at. It's something, I'm sure, he doesn't regret. That was a big part of us winning the conference championship and being here."

Every Maryland starter recorded a hit and scored a run. The Terrapins erupted for nine runs in the second, three in the third and seven in the fourth and eventually built a 20-0 lead.

Jack Power got LIU on the scoreboard with a pinch-hit solo homer in the seventh.

LIU surrendered its most runs since a 27-13 loss to Buffalo on March 11, 2012.

"Our guys know how to rebound," Pirillo said. "We haven't had too many back-to-back losses throughout the year. ... Our guys understand the magnitude of it. I think they get it's win or go home. This is for the season, so they are going to be ready."