AUBURN — Central Maine Community College announced Monday that Gabby Foy of Mt. Blue High School has committed to play women’s basketball at the school next year.

Foy who was a four-year starter in basketball at Mt. Blue, averaged 15.2 points, 5.6 rebounds, 3.4 assists, and 2.7 steals per game during her career at Mt. Blue. She was also named a 2-time KVAC 1st Team All-Star, an MBR All-Star, a Maine McDonald’s Senior All-Star, a KVAC Senior All-Star, a Bangor Daily News All-State Honorable Mention selection, and a Morning Sentinel/Kennebec Journal second-team all-star. Foyalso won the KVAC Senior 3-point shooting contest.

Also a 3-year varsity soccer player, Foy has been an honor student and made high honors  this year.

“What interested me the most about playing basketball at CM is that I knew Coach Morong through many years of playing AAU basketball, so I knew that he would push me in basketball and on the academic side as well,” Foy said. “He really cares about his players even once they leave the program.

“I see myself contributing at CM through my intensity and my ability to be a team player. I like to win as much as any other player and I will do whatever the team needs me to do to get the win.”

Morong said that he expects Foy to contribute immediately.

“She has an offensive repertoire that very few posses and has really developed an outstanding all-around game. I think Gabby is just scratching the surface,” he said. “I am very excited to watch her grow, on and off the court, during her time at CM. Gabby is a type of young woman that you want to build your program around. I couldn’t be happier with this addition.”\

Softball

Albany 1, Maine 0

ORONO —  The University of Maine softball team dropped a 1-0 decision to visiting Albany in an 11-inning contest on Monday afternoon.

The loss slips Maine back to 5-29 overall and 2-4 in America East play while the Great Danes improve to 19-7, 6-0 in league action.

Hannah Hill (was solid in the circle for the Black Bears. She went 11 innings while giving up just one unearned run on six hits with 11 strikeouts.

EmJ Fogel (Vienna, Va.) led the Maine offense as she went 3-for-5 out of the leadoff spot. Jessica Burk (Warrenton, Va.) and Hill each had singled for the Black Bears.

The lone run of the ballgame came in the top of the 11th when a pitch got away from the Black Bears and rolled to the backstop, allowing Annie Johnson to score the game-winning run from third.

Brittany MacFawn picked up the win for Albany. She tossed 11 innings of shutout ball while scattering five hits with 10 strikeouts.

Maine returns to action on Thursday when it travels to Boston College.

UMF splits with Lyndon

LYNDON, Vt. —   The University of Maine at Farmington sophomore Michelle Cote (Arundel, Maine/Thornton Academy) had three hits, senior Kaitlyn Bartlett (Chesterville, Maine/Mt. Blue) hit her third home run of the year, and freshman Emily Soule (Chelsea, Maine/Cony) kept Lyndon State College’s bats in check as the Beavers posted an 8-2 win over the Hornets, in game one of a North Atlantic Conference softball doubleheader at Skip Pound Field.

UMaine-Farmington (4-5, 2-4 NAC) could not complete the sweep however, dropping game two to Lyndon State, 6-5.

The Beavers posted one run in the top of the first inning, and added two more in the second to take a 3-0 lead. Amy Jones’ (Augusta, Maine/Cony) grounder to short allowed Meryl Bond (Jefferson, Maine/Erskine Academy) to cross for UMF’s first run of the second inning, and Cote singled home Devin Fitzgerald (Casco, Maine/Lake Region) for the second run. Fitzgerald got aboard with a double earlier in the frame.

A four-run fourth inning effectively put the game away for Farmington. Cote and Lily Barry (Hermon, Maine/Hermon) each plated a run on a base hit, and Bartlett scored Barry on a two-run shot.

Farmington amassed 11 hits, with Jones and Bartlett each getting two hits; Bartlett finished game one with a double, a home run, and two runs batted in. Jones, batting in the leadoff spot, crossed the plate three times and had one RBI.

Soule scattered six hits in the complete game win, allowing two earned runs while fanning six Hornets. She also helped her cause at the plate with a double. Meghan Gadapee started in the circle for Lyndon and allowed seven runs, six earned, on eight hits and was charged with the loss.

In game two, Farmington’s late inning comeback fell short of the mark. Trailing 6-2 after five innings, the Beavers scored one run in the sixth on a double steal of third and home by Cote and Jones.

UMF cut into Lyndon State’s lead even further in the seventh when Casey Mull (Portland, Maine/Cheverus) singled home Soule, and the lead was down to one run when Jones doubled with two outs to score Mull. Cote singles to move Jones over to third, but Lyndon State pitcher Katie Davis induced a pop-up to short for the final out of the game to end the Farmington rally.

Jones finished with three hits, two runs scored, and one RBI, while Cote and Lauren Perkins (East Hanover, N.J/Whippany Park) charted two hits each. Emma Vaillancourt (Saco, Maine/Thornton Academy) struck out nine Lyndon batters over her six innings in the circle, but yielded six runs, four earned, on eight hits with three walks in the loss.

Davis surrendered 10 hits and seven walks in the circle for the Hornets, but picked up her first win of the season.

Baseball

Bowdoin 2, St. Joe’s 1

BRUNSWICK —  The Bowdoin College baseball team got a complete game from first-year Harry Ridge a timely two-out, two-run single from senior Luke Regan to take a 2-1 win over St. Joseph’s on Monday afternoon.

Winners of five of their last six games, the Polar Bears improve to 13-9 on the season. The Monks, ranked 21st in the latest NCBWA Division III poll, have lost three straight games and fall to 14-8 this spring.

Ridge tossed a complete game for Bowdoin, allowing four singles and striking out five batters, allowing one unearned run in the victory. Nick Whittaker took a tough-luck loss for the Monks, permitting two earned runs and six hits over seven innings of work.

St. Joseph’s took an early lead in the fourth inning, getting three of their four hits in succession following an error. Nic Lops brought home Louie Vigars with a run-scoring single to give the visitors the lead. The Monks loaded the bases, but Ridge was able to get out of the jam with a pop-out and a flyout to end the threat.

Bowdoin answered in the bottom of the fifth, putting runners on first and second with one away. Duncan Taylor struck out swinging, but the ball kicked away from home plate, allowing John Lefeber and Danny Findley to advance to second and third with two outs. Luke Regan ripped an RBI single to center, bringing home Lefeber and Findley to give Bowdoin the lead.

Ridge took care of business from there, retiring 9 of the final 11 batters he faced to clinch the win. The Monks threatened in the bottom of the ninth, as Mike Pratt reached on an error to start the inning. After a sacrifice moved him to second base, Ridge was able to get Alex Markakis on a pop out to second. Alex Lorenc put a charge into the final pitch of the game, driving a long fly to left field. Bowdoin’s Tim McGarry settled under it, a few feet shy of the warning track, to close out the contest.

Lefeber was the only batter with multiple hits, going 3-for-4 for Bowdoin.