Sara Packard
The University of Maine at Presque Isle softball team, ranked 10th in the latest United States Collegiate Athletic Association coaches poll, improved its record to 12-8 heading into this morning’s scheduled doubleheader against UM-Farmington at Kents Hill.
The Owls won three of their four games played Friday and Saturday. On Friday, UMPI split games with SUNY-Canton in New York. The Owls lost the opener, 3-0, but came back to a take a 5-4 victory in second game.
UMPI was limited to two hits in the first game, with Ariel Williams and Jordi Legassie contributing them.
Winning pitcher Sara Packard helped her own cause with an RBI single in the first inning. Nicole Marucci had a two-run homer in the second inning and she contributed a two-run double in the sixth to help give her team enough offense to come out on top.
On Saturday, UMPI swept a doubleheader from Lyndon State in Lyndonville, Vt. by scores of 12-1 and 6-0.
Matt Curry
Packard allowed just eight hits in the twinbill and struck out a total of 18 batters along the way. Ayana Walker and Marucci had two hits each in game one, while Emma Gogan went 3 for 4 and Williams, Walker and Marucci added two hits apiece in the second contest.
The Owls’ baseball team won for just the third time this spring, topping Rivier College in Nashua, New Hampshire Friday, 4-2.
Matt Curry (1-5) pitched a complete-game gem. He scattered eight hits and struck out eight while walking only two batters. Saul Nunez went 3 for 4 with an RBI, Martin Egan and Justin Mason both had two hits and each scored a run and Jesus Garcia added an RBI single as UMPI scored all four of its runs over the final three innings in the comeback victory.
UMPI lost by scores of 7-0 and 9-4 in its doubleheader against Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Massachusetts Saturday. The team is now 3-24 overall.
