After they arrived home from Tuesday’s embarrassing 9-2 loss at Towson, several members of the Terrapin baseball team felt the need to call a team meeting. The pitching staff and position players each held their own meetings and no coaches were involved.

The message: there had to be a better effort against Mount St. Mary’s, because the team could not afford consecutive losses to small Division I programs heading into its series with North Carolina this weekend.

The message got through, as the Terps (7-11, 2-4 ACC) pounded the Mount 12-2 yesterday at Shipley Field thanks to a rejuvenated offense and a one-hit, lights-out performance from freshman starter John Dischert on the mound.

“The difference [from yesterday] was our intensity level,” head coach Terry Rupp said. “Today we brought it up to where it needs to be. … I don’t know if we ran out of gas or what yesterday, but it was nice to see us bounce back.”

Dischert (2-1) pitched five scoreless innings with three strikeouts and, except for an infield single in the second, had a no-hitter going through five. He retired 15 of 16 batters he faced.

“I felt good today,” Dischert said. “I just tried to concentrate on keeping the ball on the corners, and keeping it low. I threw a lot of two-seam fastballs and tried to change speeds.”

The Terps struggled to get runs across the plate against Mount starter Justin Davis in the first two innings, stranding three. But as soon as the Mount (6-6) brought Dustin Pease in to pitch to start the third, the Terps opened the floodgates.

Senior Matt Maropis opened the inning with a lead-off triple off the rightfield wall. After first baseman Gerry Spessard was hit by a pitch, junior Dan Melvin came through with a single to right to score Maropis. Catcher Chad Durakis followed with an RBI single to center and freshman Mike Murphy laid down a sacrifice bunt to score Melvin. A Dan Benick RBI single later, the Terps had a four-run third inning. They added three more runs in the fourth and five in the seventh.

“Once one guy starts to hit, we all start to hit,” said sophomore Steve Braun, who had three RBIs.

Braun and Maropis were 3-for-5 on the night and formed a 1-2 punch at the top of the Terp lineup that got the hits rolling on multiple occasions.

Overall the Terps collected 15 hits, an improvement over their measly seven-hit performance the day before.

“Yesterday was a big letdown for us,” Rupp said. “But we bounced back and got ourselves going into North Carolina [this weekend] on a positive note.”

Contact reporter Jason Fraley at fraleydbk@gmail.com.